At the college level if the player is ejected in the second half of the game, the suspension will carry over to the first half of the next game, but in high school games, the rule is not applied. Coaches around the nation are very much behind the new rule. Jared Sanderson said, “Really, the number-one thing when you’re going to hit somebody you’ve got to keep your eyes up, and we talk to the kids all the time about that” (Watson 2). Sanderson is saying coaches goals are to educate their players that if they have their head down going in for a hit, bad things like head or neck injuries. Many players have been forced to retire early or in rare cases have been hurt permeantly.
Guided Argument Essay College Football Started their Lives Football has been around for years, originating in the time during America’s reconstruction after the civil war, the late 19th century. College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities. The first game ever played of college football was played by Harvard University and Tufts University. Those universities started football as a way to teach how to be a team player and responsibility, and since then to today, it has. College football is important to the athletes, the students, and the university, and should not be banned.
One of the possible alternatives that I have actually begun to take part in since college is flag football. Flag football is the perfect alternative for those parents who want their children to be as safe as possible but still get the benefits that actual football has too. The rules for flag football are clearly laid out by Plumer "Removing the flags around the ball carrier's waist equates to the same thing as a tackle in full contact football. The only requirement of the field is that it is rectangular with two even end zones this free form format allows for flexibility in finding a field. Overtime games are decided by a field goal shootout, and after a touchdown a team is granted one point for kicking and two points for running or passing the ball into the end zone.
This book was a great book based on the sport football. I would tell other people to read it if they like sports or if they like flashbacks or if they like sad endings and what the people talk about at the funeral. I don’t normally like to read books but this one was really good. I would tell people who like the game football and how people went through school or if you have been injured and you were a good player at any sport because it tells you what he did when he got hurt how he dropped out and how he dealt with it hurting his life. There are some bad reasons about this book to its not perfect I would say.
Unfortunately his story did not end in true heroic fashion. His death during battle was twisted and covered up by the military so that the truth of what really happened wouldn’t prevail. (Biskeborn) Growing up in San Jose, California where he was born November 6th, 1976 he was extremely close to his family and high school friends that attended Leland high school. Being the jock around school you would think that he would be a bully but he was far from that he actually was the total opposite he loved to help others anyway possible. What could have been a hug twist in his life was the night that his football team won the state championship the whole team went out to celebrate the victory while one of his teammates was sloppy drunk and the other team that got beat just so happened to show up.
My height has always been something that’s set me apart; it’s helped define me. It’s just that as long as I can remember, I haven’t liked the definition very much. Every Sunday in grade school my dad and I would watch ESPN Primetime Football. Playing with friends at home, I always imagined the booming ESPN voice of Chris Berman giving the play-by-play of our street football games. But no matter how well I performed at home with friends, during school recess the stigma of “short kid” stuck with me while choosing teams.
3 April 2011 Dr. Wohl English Autumn Troubles When most people read the poem “Autumn Beings in Martins Ferry, Ohio” written by James Wright they want to think its about football, but in all reality its about people of all different races seem to escape from their ordinary everyday life just by supporting and watching a good game of high school football. This is a very short poem, but it gets its point across. Many people are quick to think that the poem is all about high school football, but they don’t see that this poem has several hidden metaphors that stand for greater and bigger messages. Through this poem, James Wright talks about a football game he uses; imagery, tone, and metaphors to show the big picture of these people living their life in the small town. First of all in the poem written by Wright, it deals with a lot of imagery that is short, but ends up painting a bigger picture in the poem, Throughout the whole poem Wright seems to paint a picture of the season fall, and the beginning of school, but looking more in depth to the poem images of something like “grey faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood,” (Wright 3) While reading this line it made me picture of unhealthy and overworked men.
Date: March 21, 2012 To: Mrs. Tice From: Tylor Mills Subject : New Game Uniforms Football is a huge tradition at Kossuth High School. Deion Sanders once said “If you look good you play good.” Our team has had the same game uniforms since 2006. They are old and worn out, and in desperate need of replacing. When we travel to other schools and represent our own, do we want to wear something that looks like it has been dug out of the garbage? If we have uniforms that look like terrible then the players are going to think, well if they don’t care about us and how we look on the field then why should we play for them.
Friday Night Lights provided all three of these themes plus a whole list of others. This movie also helps to decode why football has such an impact on the youth of America, especially high school football. The 1988 Permian Panther football team deserved to win this game yet they lost, but yet they gained much more out of this experience than the victors did. They learned that football helped turn them into men; it helped them to become much more diverse human beings. Teaching them the basics of being a man while at the same time teaching them the importance of team work and perseverance through whatever life throws at you.
Current NFL player Bernard Pollard said this on the subject “30 years from now I don’t think it will exist. I could be wrong. Its just my opinion … there’s going to come a point where fans are going to get fed up with this.” (Boren 2) Other players have spoken out against rule changes in the NFL and how it is affecting the game. That just goes back to the nature of football. They all want to be rough and tough but never want to stop and think about their lives after football.