Minnesota Vikings

Minnesota, Vikings running back Adrian Peterson found himself under fire in 2014 for using a switch to physically punishing his four-year-old son after his son had pushed another little boy off a motor cycle video game. The method Peterson used to punish his child resulted in the boy displaying welts and laceration across his thighs and buttocks. Peterson admitted to striking the boy through a series of text message sent to the boy’s mother and only displayed real regret at the fact that he had…

Listening is the foundation of any relationship. In order for any relationship to grow both parties need to understand where each other is coming from. There will be disagreements, emotional obstacles, and many more bumps that every relationship has to face. Now what sets apart a strong committed relationship from others is the understanding of how important listening is. Strong committed couples use effective listening when communicating but can sometimes run into problems preventing them from…

A Game Changer Throughout sports today we see many injuries. The level in which an athlete must preform has changed in the past decade. The athletes are becoming bigger, faster, and stronger. Being an athletic training you must now raise your level of expertise in order to meet the demand of the athlete. With this increase level of play we can see injuries becoming more and more outstanding. I will be talking about the injury called an Unhappy Triad. This is one of sports uncommon yet very…

for a television problem. We did not know where to even begin to develop a marketing plan that will successfully promote the new television series to the appropriate markets. The thing running through my mind were how to promote the sales of Minnesota Vikings apparel, how to attract customers to a new baseball stadium, how to raise ticket sales for boxing, anything but the marketing plan that will successfully promote “All Together Now” to the appropriate…

lives of athletes have become public. The Image of sports organizations, such as the NFL, have become more publicly attached to the image of athletes, which is why many sports organizations regulate off the field activity. For example, in 2014 Minnesota Vikings Running Back Adrian Peterson was arrested and charged with child abuse, the discipline method Adrian Peterson (Winters, pg. 16) used on his was in question, and the NFL decided that it would ban Adrian Peterson from playing…

If you were a sports fan in Hartford the day of my birth you had probably traveled to Dell Rapids the night before to see the West Central Boys basketball team. The Trojans, who defeated the Quarriers 76-68, were lead by Tucker Hansen, who had 23 points (“West Central 76, Dell Rapids 68” 4C). Also from around the Sioux Empire the police were searching for the driver of a truck that hit a pedestrian. The driver of truck hit a man from behind on 31st Street North and between Cliff and Van Eps…

Popularity plays a big role in college football being better than pro football. In 2015, there have been more viewers watching college football games than pro games. Here is a fact, in 2015, the New Year's Six college football bowls had more viewers than the top six most viewed NFL playoff games (Adgate). On December 31, 2014, and January 1, 2015, six major college football bowls took place on ESPN (Linshi). The six included the inaugural college football playoff semifinal games and four…

How has the Use of Virtual Reality Impacted Training in Sports? The great football coach of the University of Alabama, Bear Bryant, once said, “It’s not the will to win that matters – everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters” (Roberts 2012, n.p.). Anyone who has ever played a sport knows that the key to success is practice, practice, and more practice. Most athletes train for countless hours trying to figure out new ways to perfect the skills that they have already…

bowl.His Kansas City Chiefs would be facing the great Green Bay Packers in this first ever Championship game between the AFL and the NFL. Eventually the Chiefs would go on to lose this game, but would be back and win Super bowl IV against the Minnesota Vikings. Once the merger happened the overall name would still be the National…

season saw him double his first season numbers by running for 1,390 yards and had thirteen rushing touchdowns. That was conjointly the year of his 1st of 9 Pro-Bown appearances. Walter's on field toughness was best shown during a game against the Minnesota Vikings on Nov 20, 1977. when he was sick with the flu, Walter Payton ran for 275 yards on forty carries - a record that was only broken by tailback Corey Dillon of the Cincinnati Bengals in 2001. He was the NFL's Player of the Year and its…