Some people are just not blessed with athleticism, but those who are blessed with the desire and will to learn and create are the ones of really make a difference in our society. America does need its nerds because without them our society would be one in which football rookie cards would be our common currency. Mr. Fridman argues that the system
PE 250 (Online) October 26, 2011 Youth Sports Today, youth sports play a big role in American Society and to most it has become a part of their everyday life. There are many advantages and disadvantages with being involved and or playing youth sports. Some people will side with the fact that sports build confidence, responsibility and a healthy life style, others will argue that youth sports build tension and aggression. Are we teaching the youth confidence, accountability and a healthy way of life, or are we exposing them to a life style of tension and aggression? What is the truth about youth sports?
He has high expectations from his players rather it is athletically, academically and personality. He wants to know what his players are doing all the time and wants them to be leaders on and off the field even putting them through leadership classes at the college. He believes in his coaches and his players. He micro-manages but with a meaningful purpose and that is success. He wants his whole program to be successful off and on the field and to prepare his players for life after football and he has a plan for all of
From Roosevelt’s metaphors in the letter to Roosevelt’s son, Ted, encouraging Ted to play football but to be sure not to allow football to destroy Ted’s character, to McMurty’s anecdotes of how success in professional football requires the destruction of one’s character, and finally to Willard’s analogy of learning to ride a bicycle to the increase in the freedom of women, all claim character is the most important trait a person can possess. In Roosevelt’s letter to his son, Ted, President Roosevelt advises Ted to proceed with caution when participating in athletics such as football. Roosevelt states, “athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant and a mighty bad master” as he argues character is the most important quality of a person, not intelligence or athleticism. Roosevelt alludes not only to Pliny’s letter to Trajan, where Pliny advises Trajan to continue absorbing the Greeks in sports to distract them from what is really important, such as building a proficient army, but also to the lack of efficiency of the British officers in the Boer War due to their ridiculous love of sports to validate his advice to his son, sports, when focused on too much, can diminish character and cause one to prioritize athletics above more important things, such as schoolwork. However, Roosevelt claims participating in athletics in moderation, like all other things when done
The coach teaches them about time management and self-control. The coach also teaches about being competitive and learning how to win and lose gracefully. Doctor Daniel Gould is a professor in applied sports psychology who studied many successful high school football coaches and their impact on coaching life skills as well as football itself. The coaches strongly agreed that
During this time period, American men were taking on the roles of masculinity and male patriarchy. Many would attend sporting events in order to feel more masculine. Theodore Roosevelt himself was a man who posed as the very image of masculinity . He acclaimed baseball, football, boxing, wrestling, and riding, along with shooting, as the “true sports for a manly race” . Men of the 1950’s took pride in their masculinity and being able to provide for their families.
When we look at the different theoretical perspectives we have to consider which one would be the best for looking at the sociology of sports. The different perspectives are conflict, functionalist, interactionist, and feminist. The functional perspective is where people participate in sports to fit into a group or to boost their social status. To give an example most of the people in my school played on the football team to boost their social status this is sometimes the case with sports professionals although they may be good at the sport they may not do it because they like it or because it’s what they are good at a lot of time it is because of the money and fame. The conflict perspective is made up of the competitive nature of some humans and also the search for power and wealth.
Through football, young people fulfill their needs of expressing their conflicts as well as wishes, which are some of the key axes of juvenile identity. This is especially true for the more popular sectors of society, as social interaction reaffirms the feeling of belonging and identity in a community. Scholars of Liverpool Hope University proposed in their 2008 study that “involvement in football violence can be explained in relation to a number of factors, relating to interaction, identity, legitimacy, and power. Football violence is also thought to reflect expressions of strong emotional ties to a football team, which may help to reinforce a supporter’s sense of identity” . Moreover, some have characterized hooligans as another sort of urban tribe, given the distinct cultural traits that they show .
Football is a game of sport, measured by the ability of one to be better, faster, stronger, or quicker than the other to result in a favorable outcome. But one apparent idea of fearing what is ahead of you is an obstacle that many find, rely on faith being another form of training. I can train diligently for months or even years, to be at the peak of my physical performance. But as it may be revealed sadly, there is always someone training harder or better than myself. Does that make me a loser or a winner that I had faith that what I did what I could do?
Personally, I think a successful college student should be one who always challenges himself that he's not good enough. “To improve is to change, to be perfect is to change often,” said Winston Churchill. Being successful is a matter of continuous effort, but not only strength or intelligence. A successful college student should be able to rectify his defects, open-minded enough to accepting new ideas day and night in pursuit of perfectibility deliberately and spontaneously. Secondly, with a positive attitude, we can put into action, which is to focus, to get things done, and to be active.