National Football League

inspiring hope for the future after the first four weeks of the season, but with the good comes the bad. One of the most disheartening aspect of the blowout loss to the Arizona Cardinals was our rookie running back’s habitual inability to hold on to the football. Lost in the pandemonium after Sunday’s debacle, most seemed to overlook Ameer’s defects and placed their dissatisfaction elsewhere. Abdullah now has three fumbles in five games for anyone…

of tackle football. Several studies have been conducted that show how former NFL players had a brain disease caused by repetitive head trauma. This disease, known as CTE, can change the parts of the brain involved with memory, judgment, and fear. While this study was conducted on NFL players, brain trauma can occur during any level of tackle football. Some parents are now not allowing their children to play the sport because of the potential risk. If my child wanted to play tackle football, I…

My goal for the visual PSA was to convey the values that football brings to its players off the field. This goal was chosen in response to individuals in the media and politics that are openly critical of the culture off football. These individuals claim that the inherent violence of football causes those who play it to become violent off the field. Through my PSA I wanted to show that, for an overwhelming majority of players, this is simply not the case. The PSA was designed to convey the…

Have you ever been apart of a championship back to back years before? well sitting in the stands of faurot field is a very exciting moment in my life. Two years ago Missouri beat Texas A&M to win the SEC east and last year they beat Arkansas to clinch the SEC east title. When I went to The Texas A&M game it was crazy. Before the game we got to tailgate. Before the game the fire truck they drive around the field I got to go inside of it. Also Mizzou's (Truman) mascot was there. The game was so…

I love the sport of football and I always will. There is no doubt in my mind that this sport is the best one in the world. There are people though that do think otherwise. It does bother that some people don’t like sports and especially when it’s about football. Football requires a lot of attitude, discipline and the right state of mind, not everybody can go through it, it’s tough, it is tiring, but at the end it still gives me feelings that I can’t express, the victory, knowing that those…

Thousands of kids across the country play football in some form, from peewee to Jr High to High school. With the dangerous nature of the game, to the constant demands on their time on top of school. What motivates these kids to enjoy a sport where they’re tackled, beat, and roughed up by their peers? What makes parents approve of a sport that can physically injure and hurt their children? Are the benefits really worth the risks? Mark Edmundson’s article “Do sports build character or Damage…

“There’s a learning curve,” McCoy said. “You can’t just go out there and win on talent anymore. It’s the technique part of it. There’s a lot of mismatches with the way the game is going right now. So you better make sure you do everything right. “You don’t run the route the right way, Darrelle Revis is going to stay in your hip pocket all day long, and he’s going to let you know it, too.” McCoy pointed to Gates making sure he gets his cardio in on a treadmill after practice, Floyd laboring to…

Together, they have six combined MVP awards. They share over one-hundred thousand passing yards, and have thrown over seven-hundred touchdowns. Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre are two of the best NFL quarterbacks of all-time. For twenty-three straight years Green Bay has been a powerhouse in the NFL thanks to these phenoms . They’ve given the Packers half of the franchise’s Super Bowl trophies, and have seen seventeen playoff seasons. In 2007, Rodgers made his first career start, filling in…

In Google’s 2017 Super Bowl commercial, “Home by you. Help by Google.”, the advertisement designers primarily use pathos to persuade their viewers to purchase their highly innovative product which employs the use of state-of-the-art technology. By demonstrating loving, lively families using the Google Home Assistant in everyday tasks, “Google Home” cogently coaxes families across America to pursue more fulfilling lives through their use of Google Home Assistant. It is well-known and generally…

How Football Jeopardizes Young Lives Imagine having a chance to die from just playing America most favorite sport, Football? More than 20 percent of high school students get concussions in just one football season? America’s favorite sports football is played by more than half of the whole population and almost 4 million recorded concussions happened in just one year. Alarmed at the numbers, professionals are trying to make football less detrimental. Since of these high risks, football…