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Is it science or cheating? That has been the big question for a lot of football fans for the previous four months. It only takes one word for football fans to either roll their eyes or start an argument. What is this I am talking about? Deflategate. What is Deflategate? Deflategate is an American football controversy. A team is suspected of cheating by lowering the air pressure of the football, making it easier to grip. According to Gregory DiLisi et al, “Athletes and physicists have since…

Sports stories are told in many ways with different views of how they come to be. This can be seen in both Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger and in Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy. Both of these books compare and contrast each other in ideas and principles when it comes to football at different levels. Bissinger and Dungy both examine how football is seen differently by people and how football leads to bigger impacts made in society throughout Friday Night Lights and Quiet Strength. In both…

One of the most popular sports conspiracy theories to come out of the past Century will probably go down in history as the deflate gate . It entails the fact that the Patriots were accused of deflating footballs in the AFC Championship game against the Indianapolis Colts. Many believe that the Scandal has married a lot of holes and that is not fully born to be convicting Tom Brady quarterback of the New England Patriots of any wrongdoing. Though the Patriots have had a history of some sport…

According to Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the NFL says that ¨the league is more safer than it has been over the past thirteen years¨ but during the games there have been times that the players deliver heavy hits to the head and they just get up like if it's nothing. Not to mention, they start to forget what happened the last twenty four hours and also begin to start vomiting, which can lead to a concussion protocol and end their football career for good if they get more than three…

Nice Guys finish…. First? Teams of the Midseason & Awards We have now reached the halfway point of the regular season, and all that we know is that Nathan’s The League in Review was right. Figuring out which teams get a spot in the postseason will be difficult, because after this past week’s match-ups, the gap between teams #2-#10 is a measly two games, and the gap between teams #6-#10 is at one game. It was a tough week overall for the teams in the Douchebag division as the top four teams in…

Have you ever thought about an NFL that never applied discipline? Tom Brady was allegedly deflating footballs in the 2014-2015 AFC Championship against the Indianapolis Colts, but was never punished. Although it is not fully proven, there is plenty of evidence that Tom Brady has violated the integrity of the game multiple times, therefore, Tom Brady should be harshly punished. The NFL and people everywhere have been way too easy on Tom Brady. One good example is how the federal court nullified…

Will the absurdity that is Deflate gate ever end? Not for a while, it appears. In the latest turn of events, U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman on Thursday overturned the league's four-game suspension of star New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, which the league imposed on Mr. Brady for his alleged involvement in a scheme to slightly deflate the footballs in the first half of last season's AFC Championship Game against the Indianapolis Colts. After eight months, millions of dollars and…

The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The team currently belongs to the North Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). Founded in 1933, the Steelers are the oldest franchise in the AFC. In contrast with their status as perennial also-rans in the pre-merger NFL, where they were the oldest team to never win a league championship, the Steelers of the post-merger (modern) era are one of…

important baseball player from Pittsburgh once said this quote. Pittsburgh is a great American city that continues to make a difference in our world. While Pittsburgh is famous for many of the athletes there many do not know the true facts on Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is important for several different things , most importantly, it's steel industry. Many may know Pittsburgh is known as "The City of Steel" due to the industry (Lorant 35). Furthermore, the region in which Pittsburgh is located is…

Fredrick August Kittle, was born on April 27, 1945, in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Wilson, who dropped his father’s name and changed it to August Wilson in his twenties, was the son of Daisy Wilson, an African American cleaning women, and Frederick Kittle, a German immigrant (PBS). Wilson was raised by his mother with his siblings, and bounced from school to school before finally dropping out of high school in his early teens. August Wilson was a talented writer and when he…