Super Friends

There are two star Running Backs in this draft. LSU' Leonard Fournette and FSU' Dalvin Cook. Some draft experts have said Fournette is the most talented back to come out since Adrian Peterson. Todd McShay has said he is even better than Ezekiel Elliot. Presently there is a concern about Fournettes ankle injury he dealt with last season, that constrained him to miss five games. He additionally sat out the Citrus Bowl. His ankle injury may have capitulated from being overused in 2015 when he was…

broken down, the NFL would not even exist if it were not for every person who has ever bought a ticket, tuned into a game on the television or any form of device, or even bought merchandise. The fans are the water that keep the NFL afloat. During the Super Bowl 50, the peak average of viewers was 115.5 million, and that is just taking in to account the in-home televisions. In fact, it was the third largest audience in all of television history (Pallotta & Stelter, 2016). Upon observation, it is…

There haven’t been many constants in my life so far, but my love for and almost reliance on sports has been one of the most consistent things that I have come to know. Growing up in a huge, Catholic family of seven children was destined to be a place where athletics thrived; although we never quite had enough kids for even teams. I had an interesting introduction to sports; when I was about one-year old, my parents moved my whole family from our home of Akron, Ohio to Manchester, Vermont, where…

through 2014 with DirecTV for the Sunday Ticket package at a price of $1 billion annually. 2011 the NFL announces a nine-year contract with CBS, Fox and NBC with each paying the NFL around $1 billion annually. The three networks will each air three Super Bowls during that period through 2022. Overall, the league will collect a reported $27 billion during the life of the contracts from its various media deals. 2012 The NFL tells the world that NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football will expand to…

The NFL vs. Player Safety On February 7, 2016, millions of people worldwide watched Super Bowl 50. Being the most popular sport in America, NFL fans from all teams come together to watch the biggest game of the entire season. With another season ending, the NFL still remains in a fight with the players’ safety of the league. The next couple years might determine if the NFL can become safe for future players. With the technology the league offers, the NFL can become safer with greater…

Football Buttery popcorn rolling around from the wind, soda cans flowing out of the trash cans. The fans cheering and booing at the refs, and the big bright light that cover the whole entire stadium. All of these things describes my friday nights, at the Waddell Stadium for football. Some people say football is boring and confusing, but to me I love watching my brother make big tackles. Even if they lose, I still have a smile on my face, because my brother, Joe, always makes me proud no matter…

My hero “It's not about how hard you hit it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward how much you can take and keep, moving forward, that's how winning is done.” -Rocky Balboa Shawn Loughrige a very hardworking family man a football coach and speaker at church. Mr. Loughrige has taught me no matter how hard life is keep, pushing and you can get through it. Shawn taught me no matter how hard life is just keep pushing and you'll get through it. Shawn almost died after getting…

Throughout the years, football has become an increasingly popular sport. From peewee leagues all the way to the NFL, football is played on a daily basis. Although it has been viewed as an American sport and pastime, the concern for safety within these leagues has become prominent over the past decade. Most people associate football as a dangerous sport and some injuries can be career and even life-ending. When football first started as a sport in the early 1900s, there was no knowledge about the…

In “What is the Safest Sprint Starting Position for American Football Players?” by the authors Bruno Bonnechere , Benoit Beyer, Marcel Rooze and Jan Serge Van Sint studied concussions in football at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Their objective was to evaluate the safety of the three sprint starting positions. The lack of safety in American Football has caused many athletes to receive concussions. Concussions have been linked with, “[I]nduc[ing] neuropsychological and cognitive…

Winning percentage in American Football means “a statistic that ranks teams based on their records of wins-losses. Calculations are done by dividing the number of games a team wins against the total number of games that a team played (sportingcharts.com).” This variable is important because it give indicate of overall preformation of the team. Which also has effect the on ticket sale, team moral, and investment for shareholder. The points are “the number of points scored or scored against, in…