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primarily focusing on basketball and football. The show will strive to be much like Real Sports and 60 minutes which have HBO and Showtime have found great success in. The reason for selecting Tony Dungy as the new host for the show is because he is a Super Bowl- winning head coach. Dungy is also recognized for who he is as a person, Sports Illustrated has said that he is “Football’s high priest, the oracle who passes judgment on all moral questions.” NBC has decided to name the show “Inside the…

One of the most popular sports in the United States today, is football. The National Football League games are watched by millions of people during the football season. A football player mainly plays on one of three subsets of the team. The subsets of a football team are the offense, the defense, and the special teams. Although all of these subsets are important to a team, there are differences. The offense is the part of the team who has the ball at any given point in the game. Most of…

Chase Cummings ET Essay Thoreau and Emerson, a group of transcendentalist who brought great ideals with them, through a time of struggle in the mid 1800’s. The NFL, or National Football League, where stars can shine doing what they love for millions of fans. Just as Emerson and Thoreau present their ideas in Civil Disobedience, the players in the NFL still emulate their ideas, maybe not all of the ideals, but they all feel they consist of a “majority of one.” A first example of an NFL player…

The Indianapolis Colts have been put in an extremely tough situation. After winning only a few games in the previous season the Colts now have the 1st overall pick in the 2012 NFL draft coming up at the end of April. As of right now Andrew Luck (senior quarterback at Stanford) looks like he has all of the tools to become the next great NFL quarterback, ironically analysts say that he is similar to Peyton Manning. This is Ironic because currently the leader and starting quarterback of the…

to reduce their carbon footprint. One way to do this is through the car they drive. However, Americans are often forced to choose between performance and fuel efficiency. Most Americans choose the first of the two options. However, during the 2016 Super Bowl, Toyota aired a commercial that showed a car that is both powerful and fuel efficient. That car is the 2016 Toyota Prius. The commercial shows four bank robbers escaping in the new Toyota Prius and eluding authorities for miles. The goal of…

The video advertisement that can be accessed from the link above is the Carl’s Jr. ad that aired during the 2015 Super Bowl. The advertisement introduced the fast food company’s new “all natural” burger with the help of a seemingly naked female model. The advertisement is directed towards heterosexual men. After watching the advertisement for just a few seconds it already becomes clear who the target audience is. The target audience of this ad is clearly heterosexual men. This stays true…

When compiling a list of the all-time great quarterbacks in the National Football League one may mention names such as Joe Montana, Dan Morino, Peyton Manning, John Elway, or Otto Graham. Due to the controversy surrounding his team and his play in the past decade some may decide to leave a name off of this list. This name is Tom Brady. While it is certainly reasonable to question his spot in history because of this controversy, what is undeniable is Brady’s remarkable skills at the quarterback…

According to Lauren Greenfield, prepubescent girls are more likely to be uninhibited with regards to their identities as a girl when compared with the negative “like a girl” associations that are apparent for girls ages 12 and up. Always published the first video of their campaign on June 26, 2014. The award winning director of the “Always ‘#LikeAGirl’” campaign, Lauren Greenfield, explained that the crew intended to find out how the ideas of doing things “like a girl” became insulting. Lauren…

The Dove Men + Care line, is an advertisement you don’t see very often. Well me at least. After much research, I know one thing, I love what has been done so far with this line. The Dove Men+ Care line is focusing in on the Men + Care side of the equation, and not so much on the Dove. Yes, past commercials will bring tears to your eyes, and those emotions may entice you to buy Dove, but I believe there needs to be more than the one liner at the end telling you what product is being advertised…

stadium yelling, “You suck, Romo!” at the distant field.His wife rolls her eyes, knowing that her faith in Romo will never die, no matter how many interceptions he throws. Their son, who has just dedicated the season to the Broncos because they are Super Bowl Defending champs, scowls at his obviously crazy father. Another manic Sunday at Cowboy Stadium. There are three different kinds of fans who enjoy American football: the crazed football fans, the bandwagon fans, and the diehard fans. Crazed…