Football Stereotypes

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Many people believe that football players and athletes in general are a little slow. Often people view these athletes as all body and no brains. For years athletes have been portrayed this way by virtually every media known to man. They have faced criticism in movies, situation comedies, and music alike. I personally do not believe people can be accurately judged by categorization. For instance in “Geeks”, written by Katz, artists, musicians, poets, non-conformists and computer technicians are all grouped in the same category. In the movie “The Water boy” football players are portrayed as ignorant athletic machines. However, today this view is a little out-dated. Most modern athletic programs require their participants to score well in school.…show more content…
The offense has to memorize even more plays than the defense. Also checks can be called out by a number of players based on what they see at the line. The quarterback calls out most of the checks, but they can also be called out by any one of the five linemen. In addition, if a receiver sees an unusual coverage, he will run a different route. If the quarterback does not recognize this he could possibly throw an interception. If any player on the offense makes a mistake or does not know his duty, the play will fail. For this reason a successful football team must be composed of intelligent individuals. Football has often been described as the ballet of bulldozers. Anyone with even a basic understanding of the game knows that this is simply not true. The game is much more dependent on good strategy and execution than on brute strength. Anyone who says otherwise just does not have enough information on the sport to make an accurate judgment. Obviously anyone required to memorize such a vast amount of information cannot in any way be slow or dumb. In fact football players are among the most intelligent people in the population of most schools. If it were any other way the game would just not work.

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