Linebacker

Even a stunted plant can give fruit. I was starting middle linebacker for a state championship varsity football team as a sophomore. I was the cream of the crop. The dream of playing college football was becoming reality. I was ready to bloom as an athlete. One wrong step, one unnecessary block, and a tragic injury can end it all. “You see your ACL is like this piece of paper. When you turn the paper like this,” my orthopedic surgeon demonstrates with her hand, “and apply enough force, it…

players they’ve examined and 79 percent of all football players. In addition, Neurology stated that NFL combat veterans are three to four times more likely to die from neurological diseases, compared to the rest of us. Furthermore, previous NFL linebacker Junior Seau committed suicide after leaving a note that requested for his brain to be studied. After his death, he was diagnosed with CTE in May 2012.…

Still, young people of this century are not to be ignored. There are many adolescents that find sports to be their passion; one of them is now 21 years old linebacker, Manti Te'owho is the most decorated collegiate football player of all times.In other areas, like the virtual space of the internet, teens rule the world. They have a much better understanding of the technology and manage, at only 14-15 years old…

We are probably not going to see the NFL accept any ads for the upcoming movie, Concussion, who's slogan is "Nothing hits harder than the truth." This movie is based on a true story about a Nigerian-born forensic neuropathologist, Dr. Bennet Omalu (played by Will Smith), who was the first to discover Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). CTE is a disease that is caused by repetitive brain trauma, especially during contact sports such as football, hockey, boxing, bull riding, water polo, or…

The film Remember the Titans is a film written by Gregory Allen Howard, directed by Boaz Yakin, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The film was set in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971. The film is about a high school football team. However, it's much more than that. Remember the Titans is about the struggle to succeed, not just as a football team, but also succeed in making and keeping a friendship, despite the circumstances. The team struggled for many reasons the main one being race, but also…

Being five foot eight inches tall isn’t a bad thing, unless you’re trying to play 8A high school football. Playing football at such a high level and at my size is extremely challenging. It took me some convincing at the lunch table, and after the first couple spring workouts I realized how much effort I would have to put in to make it. Through hard work and effort along with a lot of food and protein I made it on the junior varsity team. I played well in JV, so my junior year I was moved up to…

The boys come from different walks of life, however they all have similar struggles and have the same goal of being state champions. Tight-end Brian Chavez, linebacker Ivory Christian, running back Boobie Miles, and Coach Gary Gaines are all prominent figures throughout this book, each showing a different side of how life can treat you in Odessa, and how you can look at life. With the 1987 football season over…

“It’s very difficult fitting in studies and having to go to practice late at night, and having to study for tests, and remembering plays.” said Andre Gregory, a high school student who plays two sports, in the video ‘Sports How Much Is Too Much?’ by KCRA. Young people playing sports is not a quality idea after all the amount of concussions has tripled in the last decade, and the pressure on kids from parents is a great quantity for these young adults. Although teenagers with plenty of things on…

as weaker if you cannot play through some injuries. An online article states that “Withstanding the brutality of an NFL game is a badge of masculinity, the signal of a true warrior. It’s also how players keep their jobs. As former Miami Dolphin linebacker Jason Taylor once said: ‘Be a player, not a patient.’” (Jacobs). I played football for ten years and if you were not seriously hurt, you went back in and played. I remember in 2014, I played through a game with a concussion because I did not…

the Football Star’s Fictitious Girlfriend” from chapter 12. The case explains the situation of Manti Te’o, Notre Dame University's linebacker in 2012 and his Stanford graduate girlfriend, Lennay Kekua who was reported to be involved in a car accident, and later diagnosed with leukemia. Days after learning that his girlfriend and grandmother died, the then linebacker accomplished a dozen tackles in Notre Dames game against Michigan State on September 15, 2012, where the score was 20-3. Many…