Gridiron football

The salary cap in sports is nothing new. Its origin in basketball can be traced back to the league's $55,000 salary cap for the league's first season, 1946-47. Most players earned between $4,000 and $5,000, but there were a few exceptions. Tom King of the Detroit Falcons for example. He drew the league's highest salary, $16,500, not solely because of his playing ability, but also due to his front office duties as the team's publicity director and business manager. Philadelphia's star scorer, Joe…

It was a warm, sunny day on September 28th. Today we, Laurel High School’s soccer team, were playing against one of our biggest rivals Northwestern. Last year in our regular season, we tied against them 2-2 and lost to them in the playoffs by penalties. This year we didn’t want to lose and we were determined on winning. We arrive at their home field which was the Old Fairmont Heights High School’s soccer field since Northwestern’s field was getting turf instead of grass. As we got off the bus,…

Annotated Bibliography Altonji, Chris. "Is Dance a Sport? Opposing Perspectives from Dancer and Football Player." The Oracle. FLEXWordPress, 1 Feb. 2013. Web. 05 Dec. 2016. In this article high school football player Chris Altonji states “Dancing, however, passes this one. Every time I see Poms or De La Cru perform, I am extremely impressed by their flexibility and coordination. Dancers clearly have to go through strenuous practices to be able to pull off those performances. But that’s…

Daniel West Mrs.Dwiggins Computers 1 April 24,2017 Football There is a sport called football and the first game ever played it was in 1896 and it was college football and when the NFL stated was in 1920 and i play football myself and the teams that played the games were the Green Bay Packers and the Cardinals.And when the first Super bowl and the team was The Packers vs the Kansas city chiefs in Los Angeles. Now where they have it now is there home towns since there is 32 teams in our State.DId…

Athletes are not paid enough Professional athletes donate large amounts of money to charities and sometimes sponsor events for the mentally challenged or kids with disabilities. The average player in professional sports such as (NHL, NFL, MLB, and NBA) makes an average of three million dollars a year. Tiger Woods donates about 85% of his annual salary to charity which is $66,404,000 of his $81,854,000. It is not just Tiger Woods who donates large amounts of money to charity its athletes from…

reason. Money would begin to get into their head and many student athletes will begin to think they are professional athletes. Education should be their main focus in college. The New Republic states that more than 30,000 men play N.C.A.A Division 1 football and basketball throughout a year. That is a huge amount of players every year. All student athletes with one dream; to make it pro. Also stated by The New Republic, a little less than three hundred student athletes are drafted into the NFL…

Salaries of Female Athletes: Should They Be Paid Equal? Athletes of the female gender throughout the world are being seriously underpaid compared to their male counterparts. Women in sports are having trouble pursuing their dream of being a professional athlete because most can’t get scholarships to pay for school and training, and have less opportunities to play their sport because of underfunding of the program. After college, women athletes are having trouble finding jobs because there are…

hockey, basketball, volleyball, softball, wrestling, cross country, track, tennis, racing, and many more. However, football fans happen to be the most entertaining to watch and interesting to know. Football is a roller coaster of a sport and it brings its fans along for the ride. The best fans are the die-hard fans, the jaded fans, and the band-wagon fans. Die-hard fans make football games entertaining because of their crazy antics. Most North Dakota State University (NDSU) Bison fans are…

Being a college student is not an easy task. Balancing finals with work, friends, and other activities may seem to be impossible. People are paying thousands and thousands of dollars to attend a school where they plan on getting a high quality education and a good paying job once they graduate. Now, imagine doing all of those plus a sport. Imagine competing at a higher level than they have ever competed at, while under the pressure to succeed. Imagine the amount of stress they will compile over…

Play and Get Paid Like a Girl To think it is normal to make less pay, receive less recognition, or to be declined a job position based on gender might sound like an absurd thought in today’s culture. Unfortunately, gender discrimination still exists in today’s society and is especially commonplace in women’s professional sports. Men appear to have led the way in success, talent and, agility in professional sports for as long as we can remember. However, the truth of it is many women athletes go…