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was a football player who played for the San Diego Chargers, but wasn’t good enough. Mick plays running back for his high school team, Shilshole High. In a big game against Foothill, Mick was tackled a yard short of the end zone by Foothill’s best linebacker. After that game Mick started going to Popeye’s, a gym his father introduced him to. At Popeye’s Mick had a trainer named Peter Volz. After a few workouts, Peter introduced Mick to “Gym Candy”, steroids. After that Mick was the star player…

The book Left Out is a 341 paged book that is about football. The author is a 53 year old male named Tim Green who played many years as a linebacker and defensive end. Tim was first drafted in 1986 for the Atlanta Falcons. He makes the perfect fit to write this book because of all his knowledge and experience in football. Even though he mainly writes about football he is also a great author of many other books about other things. Left out is kind of a sad story because the main character Landon…

Participation Trophies are for Wimps James Harrison, a NFL linebacker, took away his kids participation trophies and posten on the app, Instagram, about it. After this a debate has broken out whether kids should get participation trophies or not. There are many great reasons why these participation trophies our bad for our society. There are many reasons why participation trophies are a bad idea. One of my reasons why kids should not get participation trophies because it affects the kids as…

It appears that New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady will be without one of his favorite wide receivers this upcoming season. According to Dan Hellie of the NFL Network, the Miami Dolphins signed former New England Patriots wide receiver Danny Amendola to a two-year, $12 million deal ($8.25 million guaranteed). The former undrafted free agent out of Texas Tech spent the last five seasons in New England, after beginning his career with the St. Louis Rams. Amendola won two Super Bowls with…

trophy because if everyone gets a trophy they would lose their meaning and kids aren't going to learn to lose or fail. Everyone shouldn’t get a trophy because if everyone gets a trophy then they would lose their meaning. In the USA article “The linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers wasn’t happy when his two sons recently came home with trophies for simply being on a team”. The text I found says “Both Coffin and Anthony point out that trophies can lose their meaning when everyone gets one.…

Adalius Thomas former NFL linebacker signed a contract with the New England Patriots for five years for thirty-five million dollars. Thomas at the time was the highest paid free agent for the New England Patriots. Thomas went to go buy a car and during the transaction his credit was below what it should be, not allowing him to buy the car. Gary Stern was his attorney at the time to deal with his taxes. Stern was involved in creating a fraudulent tax scheme which left Thomas to pay back the IRS…

I was significantly stronger than the majority of other 7th grade football players, so some aspects of the game came very easy to me from the start. In contrast, I quickly realized I needed to focus on many technical aspects of my positions as a linebacker and quarterback because being new to the game caused me to look very awkward sometimes while playing. Although I had never played football before jr. high, I became a starter on offense and defense because of my desire to be the best. I…

Women should not be able to play football do to the fact the men are physically stronger and bigger. Women are are not built the same way that men are. Their shoulders are not as broad, their muscles are not as big, and they are all around fragile compared to men. Women do not have the same characteristics that a man does. They are way smaller in many ways. First their shoulder are not as broad and as a football player, you really want big strong shoulders to hit people with. Without this…

Caught at the 8-yard line. He head up the middle, 10. He's at the 20; he's at the 25! 30! 35! 40! Now he's going down the sideline 50! I think he's going to go all the way! He's at he 20! 15! 10! 5! Touchdown!!! The excitement felt at that one moment is indescribable. Its moments like these fans live for, but have you ever wondered how much training and what mentality the player needs to have in order to achieve those great ordeals? In this paper I will look into a High School football team with…

The amount of concussion injuries has grown. People have died or have been really hurt from concussions. People should be fined and suspended for giving someone a concussion. Then from getting raises your concussion chances. then it gives you a bigger chances of getting CTE which is a very dangerous disease. These happen all the time when you see people getting hit in the head hard and people say wow that’s was a good hit. The person that got hit maybe suffering from a concussion which will…