...music, I will not be intimidated, That's just the way it is.” -Inspiration speech by Coach Herman Boone. Remember the Titans is a story about the first high school football team to have both blacks and whites and explains the troubles they went through together. In this movie one can see the bonding between the blacks and whites, from hating each other to being best of friends. The main the idea of Remember the Titans is don’t judge a book by it’s cover. This will be shown by reasons throughout the movie. The football team shows over and over again that it does not matter what colour skin you have. They were discriminating because they were taught to do that but at the football camp and during their games they get to know...
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...On Concussions and High-School Football With risk comes reward. Concussions are a growing issue in sports, but especially football. Members on a school board in Las Vegas have proposed banning high-school football because of this increasing issue, and this is being considered in other places. Davis County is debating whether or not to ban high-school football, in my opinion there is more good that comes from football than bad. Football is a collision sport in which players tackle each other, which can lead to injuries and concussions. A concussion is the force from an impact that causes the brain to strike the inner surface of the skull. This can result in long-term brain damage, and can be fatal in some cases. While concussions are bad, there are good things that come from playing football. Ed Riley from the Portland Tribune said "My son and his teammates have learned more about hard work, sportsmanship and resilience on the football field than anywhere else". Some parents believe that the risks of injury outweigh the benefits of playing, but by playing sports in high-school, students can learn skills they’ll use throughout their lives. Another reason football is a good sport for students is that it’s a equal-opportunity sport. Any kind of athlete can join a football team, and the skill needed to play don’t require...
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...Many people argue on whether high school football is safe because it can cause so many injuries, but the sport can safely be played. There are many different htings that fottball brings to high school. For example, the gear the players wear, it raises a lot of money and it encourages kids tmake good grades. Research proves that there are several ways to make the sport of football safer for kids. The most common known injury in football is a concussion.Although, 9/10 people believe mouth gaurds are for the mouth but, it helps players avoid minor or major concussions. How? If your playing and your top jaw and bottom jaw slam together it can cause your brain to collide with your skull making the concussion. There are many new and exciting equipment being created to help players steer clear of and concussions such as this one, “The concussion safe helmet”.There have been numerous changes to play game of football to make it more safe for players. For example, if a player hit another guys helmet with his own they would have a fine to pay. Another rule that has been recently added is that if a player has gotten a concussion they must wait at least two months before playing again. Football tends to make a lot of money for high schools. It brings in the money that's needed for small budgets classes or...
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...other believe that sports, such as football and basketball, build character. Let’s take time to sit and think about this. If it were true, every person that steps upon the grid iron would be strong and successful winners in every aspect in the sport’s society. If you truly look at a person’s character, it has already been developed. Sports, such as football, bring it out of an individual. I wouldn’t say sports don’t develop player, but again I will say that it help bring out the best in a player. I figure that one way that sports helps a player’s character is how the ways of the game affect a person. Nobody like to lose, but when you lose are you going to be a man about the situation and shake another player’s hand or walk off the field with too much pride. The reason I speak on that is because a loser with bad sportsmanship will show that he got defeated with bad character, but a player with good sportsmanship will sit and accept that he got defeated and show more positive character throughout his career. A lot of people think that football is a good sport to show one’s character by how they win and their emotion through the game. When a team wins, it reflects on the players and also reveals what type of athletes you have on your team. Do you have humble players that can accept winning and achieving what they want to do or do you have the arrogant players that like to rub it in the other team’s face and show no sportsmanship. A player with good sportsmanship will acknowledge his...
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...Script: Characters names Bobby Miller, and Antony Jones Bobby Miller: Is an only child with a bad relationship with his parents. He is very silent at school and he also has no friends. He is a junior. He is bad at sports, average at school getting mostly a C, D or F on every assignment he does. Also he gets bullied by the popular kids at school. He feels like he if he just suddenly disappeared from the earth no one would really care about him being missing. Anthony Jones: Is one of 2 children. He has an older brother named David. He plays college football at the University of Alabama for the Alabama Crimson Tide as a Quarterback. He is very popular at school and gets good grades for every assignment he does. He is captain of his high school football team. He plays Corner Back at a very high level. He is a junior. Scene 1: Mental Health Issue Addressed Suicide/Depression Anthony Jones is a very good big and strong athlete and is very popular. He is good at sports. He is even captain of the high school football team. He is very smart and has a good relationship with his parents. THE PARK WEEKEND- SATURDAY AFTERNOON ANTHONY and his friend David are in the park playing catch with a football. ANTHONY goes up for a huge catch down the field and starts running until he hears a loud sound (SOUND OF A CAR STOPPING VERY RAPPIDLY). The man coming out of the car says “my name is Billy”. ANTHONY and David tell Billy “hello”. Billy starts playing catch with ANTHONY and David. Then...
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...back he started off bad for example he started a fight with money and it caused money to walk out. He was suspended for fifteen months and he talked to coach bill every day to see if he could come back to the football team if he didn’t mess up again with the drugs and he didn’t use them any. He got in an argument with the assistant coaches and coach bill asked him what happen and he said nothing and kept walking away. The only reason the coaches let him return is so he could try to become a good person and try to do better with his life because...
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...Informative Role modls in Sport Role Models are seen everywhere throughout the course of life. However, we are focusing on the positive and negative role models on the sporting fields. Jonathan Vilma, an American Football linebacker, said ‘Whether we like it or not, we are high-profile athletes. We're role models. Kids come up to me all the time to talk and it makes me remember when I was a kid and I got to meet Jerry Rice and how much that meant to me. And how we've got to set a good example.’ The media plays a key role in how sports and athletes are represented, as certain media outlets can broadcast what they want, and are often being bias (one sided). Although the media can have a positive and negative impact on the society, it often...
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...Vern M. Rotruck Lyndsey Daniel Comp I MWF 12:00 19 November 2014 Why High School Football Shouldn’t Be Banned. Football, ever since it began, has had the constant question of should it be banned. Footballs origins began back in ancient Greece where even then it was known as a very rough and brutal game. When football came to England it was thought to be so rough that kings Henry II and Henry IV both actually banned it. A lot has changed since those times in history. We now have equipment for the game and every year the equipment keeps evolving into a more safety conscious design for the player. Rules for the game also keep changing throughout the years with the player’s safety in mind as well. Because of these changes, it has greatly improved the sport for the player and shouldn’t be banned do to its once rough past. When people think of football one of the first things that comes to one’s mind is injuries that the player may receive. “Dr. R. Dawn Comstock and her staff analyze the data to describe the rates, patterns, and trends of high school sports-related injuries. Such epidemiologic analysis is the necessary first step toward the development, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based, targeted prevention programs to reduce the number and/or severity of injuries among high school athletes.”(University of Denver Colorado). Each high school has their own programs that is mentioned by Dr. Comstock in place to help alleviate those injuries. Here this year Riddell...
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...The man that changed my life. It all starts out in high school, freshman year to be on point. This story is not just going to be over just one day, It’s going to take four years. Now I know you are saying that is to long, well it’s just little at a time. It took years to change me as a person. The man I’m talking about is an old football coach, his name is Jeff Harig. He was born November 21, 1970 in Massillon, Ohio he went to Massillon Washington High School. His Religious Views Baptist. His Political Views, Republican Party. He is married with two kids. He moved to my hometown about 13 years ago and started to be a coach at Loudon High School. And a personal finance teacher. He also teaches the Dave Ramsey program. It all started out after a football game. It was an away game. Not like any other because after we had a little get together and my football coach was taking about god and the way that he was talking about him I have never heard it before. He was taking about john 19 to 38. 18"I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture: 'He who shares my bread has lifted up his heel against me. I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am He. I tell you the truth, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me." After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, "I tell you the truth, one of you is going to betray...
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...Playing football as a kid was always every little boys dream of one day becoming a professional player in the NFL. Suiting up in cleats, shoulder pads, and helmets was always a fun time. Back in high school when the coaches would make you have two a day practices to get ready for the fall. In the back of the players minds, and even their parents is the idea of a very bad injury or even a concussion. What is a concussion you might ask? Concussion is a temporary unconsciousness caused by a blow to the head. The term is also used loosely of the after effects such as confusion or temporary incapacity. Concussions can be very difficult to spot especially since plays don’t necessarily have to be knocked out in order to receive a concussion. This is why players who suffer from head injuries are often told to shake it off and get back in the game. Many concussions in high school go undiagnosed due to lack of staff, player, and family knowledge about concussions. Being able to recognize a concussion is the first step in protecting athletes. Ways to recognize a concussion that has either been knocked out or still conscious would be if a player feels dizzy, confused and forgetful, complains about headaches, and/or vomit or feels nauseous. Concussion symptoms can either occur right away or in some cases they can begin weeks later after receiving the hit that caused the concussion. Concussions have been around since the beginning of time even out of sporting events like Football. Times have...
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...I walked into the locker room on the first day of football practice of my senior year. Right as you walk in you get the big whiff of sweat, sunscreen, and deodorant. The smell that tells you it's time for football. While I'm getting ready I hear two kids talking about me saying. They're saying, "he sucks" and "he's never going to make it on this team". That motivated me. I came in, no one knowing who I was or what I could do. So I threw my cleats on and went out there thinking there was nothing to lose. All I heard during practices was kids saying stuff about me which is now starting to get to me frustrated and I start shanking balls left and right. Not a good start to my senior year of high school football,...
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...Have you ever wondered why football teams keep switching to turf instead of natural grass? Well, there are many good reason why they do but there are also many why they shouldn’t. Money is a huge factor of it and I think that is why teams keep switching to turf. Why are teams actually going to turf? Well, money is a big factor of it. It is almost 10,000 dollars to put in turf but after that you don’t have to use much more money. You don’t have to water it, you don’t have to replant seed every two years, and you don’t have keep cutting it like regular grass. An average turf field lasts for about five years while a grass field only lasts for two. Another big reason why people are switching to turf is because there are less injuries that occur. When it is raining and there are a lot of people running around, mud pits form. People will slip in the mud pits and pull a muscle or roll their ankle. On turf, rain doesn’t make it muddy therefore, there are less injuries. On a regular field, the grass gets hard and brittle when the temperature drops. It hurts when you fall on hard grass. (Believe me, i’ve done it.) Turf fields don’t get hard and brittle, they stay pretty soft...
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...when thinking of present day youth football leagues. A person from another state may think of kids building teamwork skills and their physical abilities, while a person from Texas may think of the gridiron, violent games expressed between these eight and nine year old players. Stefan Fatsis’s article “Rich Kids Are Soft, Poor Kids Need to be Together Up” uncovers the real, explicit experience these kids receive and how it affects them and their community, good or bad. In order to evaluate Fatsis’s article thoroughly, it is important to consider the use of rhetorical strategies and structure. One of the claims Fatsis makes is the “violent imagery” created in the coach’s speeches and the use of their vulgar language around the young players. The author uses the Esquire Network series, Friday Night Tykes (FNT) as his illustration to his readers, assuming the reader has watched the show. He uses the example “You have the opportunity, today, to rip their heads off and let them bleed” (pr.1) from the show, to represent the relationship being expressed between the coaches and players. He assumes he is showing his pathos at this point in the article and that attention of the readers is being grabbed. Another point of the article’s structure and stance involves the coach’s perspective between positive adult leadership and their vulgar, negative style on the field. One specific coach from the Outlaws explains how parents specifically put their kids on his team to prevent them from growing...
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...will be a lady killer for sure with his good looks. Little Nina and Carter go get the other grandchildren. I want to tell a story to you kids about my life. Because you know what day it is, it's my 100 birthday! Now go get the other 12 grandchildren… Well that was fast, i use to move as fast as that. Now, now Bill stop playing with my cane! Ok you kids now sit down before the fire and i'll tell you a story. No Carter not a fantasy one with princess, i know how much you like them and not one about superhero story. It's a story about life and the ups and downs from it, and will it's not a scary story it's one you should listen to you can learn...
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...His father may be scared his son will have a better opportunity in sports than he ever have can be a reason why he stay doubting him about football. His father won’t allow him to practice either for football. Cory wants to build a fence to have better relationship with his dad. Football is his fence to believe his dreams. Rose believes in her son and tries to reason with her husband about Cory’s future. In the script Rose, asks, “Why don’t you let that boy go ahead and play football, Troy? Ain’t no harm in that. He’s just trying to be like you with the sports” (Wilson, p. 137). “I don’t want him to be like me!” Troy answers in a rage. “I want him to move as far away from my life as he can get. You the only decent thing that ever happened to me. I wish him that. But I don’t wish a thing else from my life. I decided seventeen years ago that boy wasn’t getting involved in no sports. Not after what they did to me in the sports” (Wilson, p. 137). Cory career meant everything to him and support would make his life even...
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