American Football League

Colin Kaepernick On November 3rd, 1987, a superstar was born. He would go on to dazzle on a national spotlight in front of millions. Breaking NFL records, and bringing his team within 7 yards of football immortality. Colin Kaepernick was born to Heidi Russo in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Only 19 at the time, with no father in the picture, she gave her newborn away at 5 weeks to the Kaepernicks. She was introduced to the Kaepernicks by a mutual friend. Colin was drawn to sports at a young age. The…

your child, and with them playing sports there will be some moments where you think it is not safe for your child to play a contact tough sport such as football that has a lot of head to head contact and some serious injuries. Well in this paper there will be lots of reason why parents shouldn’t let their child play this evolving game of football. This is a very dangerous sport so most say no you should not let your child play. First of the most common reason is the concussion. That injury can…

that is not only love by you, but my millions around the world. This sport captures the attention of the young and the old, and is played by the same. This game dominates the weeknight and weekend television during its season. So what is this game? Football, America’s favorite pastime. But what many beloved spectators didn’t know about the game, the movie Concussion brought to the silver screen in 2015. The movie Concussion, takes place in modern day time in Pittsburg, PA. Little did we know…

In the last generation, municipalities have spent over ten billion dollars to build or refurbish stadiums in twenty-seven cities that host National Football League franchises. This, in large part, has contributed to the robust bottom line of America’s most prominent and successful profession sports organization. The NFL is projected to surpass $13 billion in revenues this year, over halfway to Commissioner Roger Goodell’s stated benchmark of $25 billion by the year 2027. Even with the NFL’s…

week, or every season, is because those people are die-hard fans of that team. People sacrifice so much to be able to watch their teams every season. Some people like sports teams because of who their parents like. When a kid watches their first football game with their dad, they get told who the good teams are, and that is when the kid first falls in love with that team. When, for instance, the Steelers score a touchdown, and that kid sees everyone cheering, that’s when they know that that is…

Detroit Lions; and the Detroit Lions, a corporation and a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. Jerry Argovitz was acting as Billy Sim’s agent when he was negotiating contracts between the Detroit Lions, Inc. and the Houston Gamblers, Inc. throughout the months of April and July of 1983. In March of 1983, Argovitz was in the process of applying for a Houston franchise in the United States Football League (USFL). Argovitz was later approved for a franchise in May 1983,…

They played it one day during a baseball game in 1865 which was during the civil war where many major league players were getting drafted for the military, when they started playing it the audience showed immediate respect after that day more people started showing up and it became a tradition playing it before games. When the national anthem is played it…

Ezekiel Elliott, a natural athlete born in an athletic family, but now could be considered the best running back in the NFL, leading the NFL in most yards per carry after contact. Thanks to his offensive line, Zeke is just pure talent on the football field, if you ask any running back, fullback, quarterback, or anybody behind the offensive line before a play, they would tell you that the play would not ever succeed without those lineman protecting them. Zeke admits that that statement is true,…

Is cheating acceptable or is cheating never justified? No matter what area in our lives we find ourselves in whether that is in school, professionally working, politician or a professional athlete one will be presented with an easy way ahead. After that athlete or politician has learned several successful ways to cheat and not be caught, is he or she more likely to employ the same schemes moving forward? In academia those schemes will be used, but in the real world many will view those…

On August 14th 2016, NFL player Colin Kaepernick began the protest of police brutality against black Americans by sitting during the national anthem. Colin Kaepernick announced to the public why he was not standing during the anthem during a press conference “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people, and people of color.” On August 12th 2017, the protests started back up when Marshawn Lynch sits for the anthem during the preseason. After Lynch…