Super Bowl XLI

Embrace the Suck I was five years old when I learned how to throw a football. My Dad spent hours in that muddy backyard trying to teach me how to throw “just like Peyton Manning did,” my favorite NFL player. The first step was to place your fingers on the end of the laces and grip the side of the ball with all five of your fingertips. Next, with one swift motion I was told to launch the ball forward as hard as I could. However, in order to make the ball spin in a spiral, at the end of my throwing motion I was taught to flick my wrist and fingers downwards as if I was flicking a booger off of them. As a five-year-old, combining all of these steps into one was very challenging. But every day we practiced and I learned how to throw a perfect spiral faster than Peyton Manning could shout “Omaha”. I spent the next ten years in love with football. Peyton Manning, Reggie Wayne, Bob Sanders and many other Indianapolis Colts player posters flooded my room. For my seventh birthday, I was given a plastic football helmet that I wore just about everywhere, sometimes even to bed. I even had a stuffed football that I refused to go to sleep without. I was always looking for a time to play football and would take any chance I had. Almost every day throughout Elementary School my friends and I spent recess tossing the pig skin, trying to prove that we were the next upcoming NFL superstar. I was in love with football at a young age and nothing could change that. When I got old enough, my…

Today a legend steps down. University of South Carolina head football coach Steve Spurrier called it quits on a storied career. The Head Ball Coach, as he’s known by many, had a great run. He won over 228 games. He’s the winningest coach at both Florida and South Carolina. He took two struggling programs in Duke and South Carolina to new heights. At the age of 70 Coach Spurrier decided it was time to step down. He also did it in the middle of the season which some people including myself…

Achievement). He was expected to go the University of Mississippi, Ole Miss, but instead chose to go to the University of Tennessee( Academy of Achievement). Peyton was the number 1 overall pick in in 1998 NFL draft and he was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts and played there for 14 years( Academy of Achievement). Manning was then drafted by the Denver Broncos and played there till 2016 when he retired after winning Super Bowl 50 ( Academy of Achievement). Peyton Manning has the most passing…

He stated that his experience was what got him the COO job. Like mentioned, Michael Kelly worked at two different universities in athletics, six years with the ACC, and working three different super bowls. So Michael Kelly had the experience and the knowledge of handling the job as COO of the CFP. On the side, I asked him how he heard about the job. His former boss of the ACC, commissioner John Swofford, contacted the president of the CFP for him, as a way of a connection. This ended up…

from the website, Spoil Sport, talks about several sports that cause environmental damage. He lists sports that use fuel such as NASCAR, skydiving, boat racing and any sport that gets a large crowd such as soccer. If many people want to watch the sport it means that many people use fuel to go to where the sport is played and that is not good for the environment. Merchant also says blood sports such as hunting are not good because they involve violence. Snow sports that use a great deal of…

Over one-hundred and eleven million people watched the Seattle Sea-hawks take on the Denver Broncos during the two thousand and fourteen super bowl. Every year the Super Bowl is the most-watched program on television. Many of the people watching over see the talent and amount of creativity involved in the coaching, commercials, and halftime show. Creativity and coaching often go hand in hand. Coaches possess a different set of skills for their area of work than most other people who work in…

Over 110 million people watched Super Bowl 50 when the Denver Broncos defeated the Carolina Panthers 24-10 (Kissell 1). People gathered all across the country with their family and friends to watch the two best teams in the NFL battle it out on the gridiron for supremacy. The Super Bowl is a prime example of the power of sports. Family and friends were united together to watch the game. Also, youth that watched the game observed the power of hard work and what one can accomplish if they set…

well which was also owned by a Georgia Tech graduate. Campus Accomplishments There were dances and concerts on the Georgia Tech campus. Dionne Warwick, Ray Mr. Rogers, and the Kingston Trio were some of the people who would come perform. The Yellow Jackets had a great record those seasons and were a bowl team every year. In 1962 the team went to the Blue Bonnet Bowl. Some players had charged things to the room after they lost the game. The people who had over charged the account had to repay…

Tom Brady, a prominent quarterback for the New England Patriots, is one of the National Football League’s (NFL) greatest quarterbacks to have ever played. He excelled in both Football and Baseball, and gave up the opportunity to play professional baseball and attended the University of Michigan instead. Tom Brady led his team to an Orange Bowl victory and set himself up to be selected in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL draft. A year later, after the starting quarterback for the Patriots was…

important forms of communication human’s use on a daily basis, even if it is not realized. The Super Bowl Baby Legends Ad aims to make the audience, which consists mainly of teenagers, adults, some children, and some elderly to see “Football is Family” when they think of the NFL. In America, since football is a highly popular sport at high schools and colleges, it becomes a habit for fans to watch football. Football is watched almost every day of the week by all different people, and has been…