But even with it I still managed to run away from people. It was all very confusing to me. But once I knew I was going to be a part of it, it seemed like it came easy. The hard part was knowing what to do and when to do it. The natural instinct to run when being chased helped somewhat.
Every kid knows about that.
But the concept of a designed play that called for him to follow a prescribed path to a given point was foreign. But I have to give him credit, he adapted to a sport he had never played. In our first scrimmage we pitched the ball to him and he dropped it. Then he walked away. He thought it was an incomplete pass.