...Benny Nduwayo Peter Beyer Eng Comp 26 February 2015 Mike Webster Concussions have been a big problem since the day the NFL started. People did not know how dangerous football was until the crisis of Mike Webster broke out in the 90s. He played for Pittsburgh, played in the center, and wore number 52. By wearing that number he knew he obviously had to be the toughest player on the field. By playing in the center, there was no glory for Mike Webster. It was play after play while going in head to head with other players. Most guys play for 6 years or so, and then retire but that was not the case for Mike Webster. He played for 17 years in a dangerous game that he loved a lot. After he retired from the NFL, he was a different person than he was before he started playing in the NFL. Pam Webster recalled, “To see his brain declining years later was such a sad thing, because he was incredibly smart, and what I've said the boys have this gift that they see detail that no one else picks up on, and Mike had that gift.” During a football game, sometimes Mike would see someone flexing, moving, and he would then draw them off to the side just by moving his body. He basically knew where everything was on the field. If you were to look for that in his old films when he was playing, you would see mike notice something like that play, and he would turn to Terry Bradshaw and tell him to change the play. Mike was the master of the game for sure. Mike’s ex-wife Pam Webster, said in League of...
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...Luke Parrish Dr. Melinda McBee English 1301.HY7 2 November 2013 More Than a Game High school football is much more than just a game, and that is what many people do not understand. After the games people will say “It’s just a game, don’t be so hard on yourself,” but it is much more than that. Football is a way of life, especially in Texas. Football is a religion here and people take it very seriously. There is more to it than just the physical attributes needed to play. There is much more of a mental side to it as well as emotional. It is also very time consuming and many people fail to understand just how many hours’ football players and coaches put in throughout the week. The preparation starts in June the summer before the season. There are many different camps that the players need to attend if they want to get any playing time. These camps have vigorous lifting and running to try and work off the summer weight that most kids gain during high school. Many of the players are out of shape and this is the start of getting back into football shape. It is not mandatory to come to these different camps, but if a player wants to succeed and be a part of the team and get to play, it is expected to show up and put a face with a name. This is also a time when the relationships begin to build. Teammates begin to get comfortable with each other and get a grasp on what kind of player the other will be and they lay a foundation for that brotherhood that is going to become very...
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...Remember the Titans Organization: T.C. Williams High School Football Team (Alexandria Virginia 1971) * Organizational Environment: Consisted of the school board, the coaches, the team and the community. * Org. Structure: Due to desegregation, the structural norm of an all-white high school, coaching staff and football team, soon changed when a new head coach was appointed. * Org. Culture: In the beginning, everyone was out for their own self interests. The school board was trying to sabotage Coach Boone. Both coaches were out to make a name for themselves (Boone: Up and Coming/Yoast: Hall of Fame). The team members had their own initiatives (to get their desired positions). While white members of the community were waiting for failure, the black members longed for a figurehead. The coaches, team, and the community struggled to understand and except one another.The mentality was “This is how we do things around here”, but that was all about to change. * Org. Climate: At first everyone lacked motivation to put forth the effort of trying to work together. For example: Boone took offense & Yoast took defense. The team captains weren’t showing any leadership and the community members were extremely divided. Racism and football was the backdrop for the clash of leadership styles and personal perspectives that each man had to learn and understand from each other because they all shared one common goal, to become a winning team. * Team Building: At camp when...
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...negative impacts of football in Odessa. Throughout the telling of Friday Night Lights Bissinger uses imagery to portray the glory of the football season at Permian high school. In the football stadium “stillness was ruptured by a thousand different sounds smashing into each other in wonderful chaos”(14) and fans lost “all dignity and restraint...because of these high school boys in front of them, their boys, their heroes”(14). A sense of unity is immediately conveyed to the audience regarding this town. The colorful language inspires a feeling of excitement in the reader that is akin to that of Permian fans. As the piece...
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...It’s Not Just Football: Friday Night Lights Review For many people who aren’t sports fans, a television drama about a high school football team in Texas does not sound interesting. But NBC’s Friday Night Lights is one of the best American TV dramas in recent years. There's a level of honest, raw humanity in this Primetime Emmy award-winning show that few TV dramas have ever achieved. Friday Night Lights focuses on the small town of Dillon, Texas, where what matters most is the local high school football team. Eric Taylor is the new head coach of the Dillon High School Panthers. This is a job that comes with an incredible amount of pressure, as everywhere he goes, Eric hears how much the town is counting on him to take their boys to the state championship game. The show illustrates the stress that a town gives its high school players to win and the hope that a team gives to a small town. To have a heightened sense of realism and immerse viewers in the world of the show’s characters, Friday Night Lights...
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...players. Lester Ward pushes the boys to work hard so that the referees will never see them tired. This section of chapter five really shows the importance placed on football to the boys. The players want desperately to show Ward they are trying and their abilities. Ward puts emphasis on being a team player and managing behaviors and anger during a game and during the boys stay to show that by acting out you really put a burden on everyone else. I believe this is motivation to keep the boys out of trouble...
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...David Johnson, the author of “Practice and Preparation”, uses visual imagery to point out how preparation leads to success and to never give up. The author uses visual imagery when he says “I fired into my man - the sort of collision that makes mothers shudder and dads grin.” These words paint a picture of how the author hits his opponent with strength and the ability to create such hits only comes from constant practice.The use of imagery makes the audience feel that they are watching the game live in the stadium. The author goes on to say “Years of drills turned technique into instinct” , letting the audience know that his practice made the tackle easier, and more powerful and effective. David Johnson again uses visual imagery when...
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...boars and killed them and was said to have jumped a 40ft ditch to get away. With these abilities Bo played many sports and was seen as if he had god-given abilities. By late high school he had colleges sending their best scouts to see if the legends were real, which they were. Bo had done deeds of tremendous strength and courage like no one had ever seen. Toppling a batting cage with a single ball, hitting the crown of Kauffman Stadium on his first ball, and diving over a crowd of burly football players or a final touchdown are only a few of his amazing feats of...
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...For the town of Messina, going to a football game every Friday night was like going to church every Sunday morning. Neely says when he revisits the school trophy case, “It was more of a shrine to Eddie Rake, an alter where his followers could worship” (Grisham 102). Just about every player on the team was automatically handed a passing grade in their classes along with a pass to just about anything else they wanted, as long as they brought home a state championship. The start of this adulation for the game, and all its players, began with Coach Eddie Rake’s methods. Enter Neely Crenshaw: one of Rake’s all time best players, headed straight for the NFL until a college injury ended his career before it began. After this incident, his life went downhill. He dropped out of college, got married and divorced and has never been truly happy. Upon returning, for Rake’s funeral, Neely must now learn how to let go of the game, and try to find closure with his ex high school sweetheart. The little town held on so tight to its wins and championships, what will it do when their beloved coach...
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...one past memory that stands out the most to me is playing for my high school football team. The time I had spent on the football field as a teen was without a doubt the best time of my life. It’s been a long eight years since I have played football but, I can’t go a day without reflecting back on my ball playing days. Every time I see a high school football game I wish I could turn back the hands of time and play football for my high school again and relive all the great moments I spent with my teammates again. Growing up, I went to a lot of different schools, because my family moved a lot so as result I never had steady solid friendships also as a pre-teen I was getting in to trouble and spending too much time on the streets and not focusing on my studies. I was skipping a lot of school and starting to rebel a lot. I was headed on the wrong track my older brother took a notice to this and stepped in to steer me back on the right course. His suggestion was joining football. He said I had too much free time and nothing positive going on and looking back he was right. He helped gain an interest in football and got me signed up on the team. My brother being such a positive person and looking out for me and my future and playing on the football team really saved my life as I look back. If he never helped me get into football who knows what my future would have held. When I became a player on the football team that was the first time I had real true friends. My mother said...
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...Great Debaters Modern Urban World Torrence The differences Whites and Blacks, as well as their comparisons, are portrayed through two different movies of two different eras of American history. Remember the Titans centers around an integrated high school football team in Virginia in the 1970’s. The team has to figure out how to bond together as one in order to overcome racial adversity of the south in the 1970’s. The Great Debaters takes place in Texas during the Great Depression of the 1930’s. Three black college students on a debate team, along with their coach Professor Tolson, travel the road debating more and more prestigious colleges, while developing as young educated black men (and women) in the racist 1930’s south. Character development is both films plays a vital role. In Remember the Titans, the relationship formed between Gary and Julius, and Boone and Yost symbolizes the White/Black differences coming together and actually forming stronger friendships then that of two of the same races. There were also the supporting roles of characters that helped integrate the football team such as Louie, Rev, and Blue who were the very first players who were able to set color aside as it has nothing to do with neither football nor the quality of a man. In The Great Debaters, the growth of Henry Lowe and the relationship between James Farmer Jr. and his father are crucial to watch. Henry Lowe starts off as a misguided young man who responds to conflicts with walking away...
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...that has developed my aspirations, desires, and subconscious tendencies. The one process that has defined who I was and became, has been football. I played football all through middle and high school. I started playing it as just another sport. I was always a very active kid, and played as many different sports as I could. Originally I loved the fast pace of the game, and that it afforded me a chance to hit other kids without penalty. Over the years, however, football came to mean more to me than a free-for-all arena. Especially by the time I entered high school, football was a community: the most important community in my life. Simply through getting up early day after day in the summer for grueling 2-a-days, and continuing that effort to just show up, battered and bruised, day after day, to get better and help my teammates achieve success, I forged myself a niche. The wind sprints, bag drills, lifting sessions, and hitting drills were, in a way, ways to achieve a sense of place for myself that I could feel like I earned, and that people respected. Not only was I working with others to achieve a similar goal (winning), but through that work we were becoming brothers. The sense of camaraderie on the field began to transfer over to everyday life. My teammates and I would sit together at lunch, joke together, hang out together after school, and lie to administrators to get each other out of trouble. Through a game, a real-life unity occurred. Because of this, many other students...
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...THE REAL ChicagoPublicSchools High School Football Power 25 RANKINGS Coach Tyler Reports 1 Phillips 3-0 (0-0) Won vs Simeon 29-18 1 2 Simeon 1-2 (0-0) First defeat vs CPS school since 2009 2 3 Curie 3-0 (0-0) 160 points scored; 14 against for the defending City Champs 3 4 Solorio 3-0 (0-0) Academy for Urban School Leadership team means business 4 5 Al Raby 3-0 (0-0) Beat Hubbard friday night 38-26 7 6 Dunbar 1-2 (0-0) Won against #20 Harper 50-12 6 7 Julian 3-0 (0-0) 40-0 win over Bogan 9 8 Whitney Young 3-0 (1-0) 63-0 blowout win vs Roosevelt 10 9 King 2-1 (0-0) Won Thur night thriller 24-20 against Lane Tech 13 10 North Lawndale 1-2 (0-0) Lost at Quincy 15-35. Prepared for city? 5 11 Lane Tech 1-2 (0-0) 20-24 lost vs King. QB a real issue or not? 6 12 Steinmetz 3-0 (1-0) Overlooked Streaks matchup vs #8 WY Dolphins 9/17 NR 13 Robeson 1-2 (0-0)...
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...member of our squadron’s ground school. I joined Air Cadets with a few goals; one of which was to live out my dream of flying and get my glider and pilot licenses hence why I am applying for this scholarship. I strongly believe that I have the work ethic, attitude, determination and dedication that are required to be successful at the Regional Gliding School in Gimli this year. At my squadron, I always attend extra cadet activities like sports nights, bush exercises, leadership and aviation weekends, glider familiarization days and most importantly ground school on Monday nights. Not only do I have an excellent attendance record but I also have a positive attitude towards the cadet program as well as everyone that is a part of it; I am also very respected by my peers. In recent years as a cadet, I have had the privilege to attend three different summer cadet camps. These cadet camps were the General Training and Basic Leadership courses in Penhold and the Basic Survival course in Cold Lake. Outside of cadets, I attend Miles McDonnell Collegiate. I am a grade 11 honors student in the very demanding International Baccalaureate Program. I maintain a very good reputation with my teachers as well as very good marks. I volunteer as a puppeteer and an actor in my local church for the Kid zone Program and this upcoming spring, I am going to begin coaching flag football for the little leagues. During the past few years, I have played flag football for Football Manitoba and previous to that...
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...Abstract Richard Grube, an athletically inclined senior at Freedom High School in the Bethlehem Area School District, played football his freshman, sophomore, and junior years. Prior to the start of the football season in his senior year, the district claimed Richard was ineligible to play on the basis that Richard only had one kidney. Richard and his family filed a preliminary injunction against the school district claiming the district violated Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. (Grube v Bethlehem, 1982) According to the United States Department of Education (2011), Section 504 states that, “no otherwise qualified handicapped individual in the United States shall, solely by reason of his handicap, be excluded from the participation in…any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance”. As a result, the court ruled in favor of Richard Grube. Case and Law Review Richard Wallace Grube et al. v. Bethlehem Area School District Legal Research In 1982, Richard Grube, a senior at Freedom High School was declared ineligible to play football because he only had one kidney. Richard and his family filed a preliminary injunction based on Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. According to the U.S. Department of Education, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 states that, no otherwise qualified handicapped individual in the United States shall, solely by reason of his handicap, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits...
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