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COOPER
Super Bowl Sunday
It was Super Bowl Sunday and the whole city of Charlotte buzzed with raw excitement and energy. Luckily, the game was on home soil, but with that came the added pressure to succeed. Our team was pumped and ready to go; except, I had a different kind of fear skating its way up my spine. We were not only playing my old team for the championship, but I had a special kind of play to do that would change my life forever.
“Are you nervous?” Evan asked, taking a seat beside me. The locker room echoed with laughter and shouts from my team, but I had chosen to spend the last few moments before the big game in solitude.
Taping up my fingers, I smiled and tilted my head toward him. “A little,” I confessed, “but I know the team will kick a*s out there and have my back.
