Glossary of American football

To many people, football is considered the most dangerous sport. The violent tackling nature means the possibility of broken bones or torn tendons with every play, and these injuries have always been understood as part of participating in the sport. A newer, less understood injury, however, is the concussion. 47 percent of all concussions in sports occur in football. For this reason, some parents are not allowing their children to play football because of the risk of head injuries. Unlike…

our coach shouting with his eldritch accent that nobody understood, you could also smell the smell of nature like you were in a forest. That night I wouldn't think about anything else other than how my team and I are a failure and a disgrace to the football world. That night was the night of my tenth birthday, my whole whole family were there, my parents and my siblings. When I looked over at my family's faces, I immediately knew that was their ashamed faces, so I immediately jumped up and…

main types of football; College Football and the National Football League. Although, some might say that the NFL is better than College football, but there is a greater number of benefits that come from college football; that lead many football fans to say, “College football is much better than the NFL.” Admittedly, in college, only for a short period of time can a college football athlete actually play while they are enrolled in a college or university. Nonetheless, a college football player…

This summer was definitely one to remember. I may not have had the most exciting or eventful summer, but I cannot complain. I was constantly doing something with work, friends, and football. When I looked back on this summer, I mostly remember working and working. It is not that I worked a ton, but that I did not do much else. I would be lying if I said I did not have fun working, it helps that I work with two of my friends, Riley Calhoon and Colton Best. We all work on Colton’s family’s ranch.…

dreams on your own. In the video Randy Pausch describes that when he was a child he wanted to play in the NFL. He did not make it to the NFL but he says that Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. He signed up to play in a football league when he was 9 years old and one day at practice the head coach rode him really hard and kept telling him he was doing everything wrong. After practice one of the other coaches came up to him and told him that it was a good thing that…

Ruszkiewicz, a discourse community is defined as “a group of people who share common interests, goals, values, assumptions, knowledge of a topic… and discursive patterns.” In this paper, I’ll explain how I successfully became a member of my high school’s football team by building a strong relationship with my team mates, paying attention to detail, and going the extra mile throughout practice. I will also be able to carry out my explanation through the usage of ethos, logos and pathos appeals.…

Flynn 1 Riley Flynn Dr. Harrison Expository Writing 9 October 2017 Colin Kapernick, a National Football League Quarterback for the San Francisco 49’ers, on August 26, 2016 knelt during the playing of the National Anthem triggering a fierce debate pitting patriotism against the rights granted in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Americans from the poorest to richest, uneducated to academia, veterans to pacifists, the press to politicians engaged in an examination of their…

hardcore Bears fan, but the mother is a diehard Packers fan? For me this divide pushed me away from football. I was the athletic child in the family so naturally my parents strove to gain my allegiance to their respective team. Without being able to choose a team without offending one parent, I never had a team to cheer on, eventually causing me to be ambivalent towards the sport that many Americans spend their Sundays enjoying. This arbitrary divide in my life mirrors another, more important…

an example of Geertz' theory of anthropology as interpretation. Colin Kaepernick is an American football quarterback who did not stand during the playing of the national anthem during the entire football season for 2016-17. He was released from his role as quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers in 2016. He is currently a free agent and considered one of the best quarterbacks currently in the National Football League (NFL) after taking his team to the superbowl in 2016. Kaepernick recently…

The book began with the main character Mick Johnson training to become the starting running back on his High School football team. He was determined to be like his father who went to the pros. As Mick was trying to get better, his father signed him up for a gym membership at a gym called Popeye's. A gym that the radio station Mick's father works for recently bought. Mick continued to weight train first at his school’s gym, then at Popeye’s and still felt no results. He wanted to get an edge over…