Cincinnati Bengals 6-0 @ Pittsburgh Steelers 4-3 1:00 PM ET – TV: CBS Both offensive coordinators, Pittsburgh’s Todd Haley and Cincinnati’s Hue Jackson have weapons galore to stress the backend and negate pass rushes. Starting with Haley’s unit, it begins with Pittsburgh’s multi-faceted running back, Le'Veon Bell, who’s arguably the best all-around back in the game. Inside zone runs are part of Haley’s playbook, but where Bell and the Steelers’ ground game has found most of its success has been executing
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Since I was little, I’ve wanted to play football just like my dad. Be out on that field every Friday night. Hearing the crowd scream for every tackle and touchdown. Though if you knew me when I was younger you would never have thought that I would ever play. People always saw me as the shy kid. I lacked a lot of the confidence to even try. I was small, chubby, and didn’t really work well with others. Then that glorious thing called puberty came along. I grew, lost some weight, and in return gained
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College Football Players Should Be Paid Imagine getting up for work at 6am going to work till 7:30pm, day in and day out, seven days a week, then after two weeks when the paycheck arrives , it reads $0.00. This is the life of a college football player. College football players put in countless hours of hard work everyday for their universities and receive very minimal benefits. These kids can severely mess up the rest of their lives with one hit and nothing is guaranteed in this business. If something
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On November 12, 1892, Pro football made its worldwide debut. It was the game between the Pittsburgh Athletic Club and the Allegheny Athletic Association. William Pudge Heffelfinger became the first official football player. He was paid 500 dollars illegally to play. They didn’t find out until 80 years later when they found an expense report that clearly showed the amount of money he received and the date of which he acquired the payment. The document containing the information about his payment is
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After I moved on from youth football, I moved on the playing for Lovett. It was the first time I was going to be able to play with my friends from school. I remember everyone came out to play that year. It was probably the most people I’ve ever seen on a team. Not to my surprise, we were terrible too. It was all about “equal playing time” and “learning the game” which lead to us being 1-5. 7th grade was a bust, but when the eighth grade season rolled around I knew it would be different. Our coaches
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people should not play football. Two reasons being that the can receive many substantial injuries and they are prone to having brain or neural problems. For starters, young people should not play football because they have the chance to get brain or neural problems. In a study of three cognitive tests on two different groups of former football players, the players that played football before the age 12 preformed on average 20% worse. (Neurology journal) the sport of football is not safe for children
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turned my head towards my running back Dylan Stefanich and spit out between tears, “This game is over.” Dylan and I played football together since the first grade, at first football was closer to a game of tag, with our dads trying to corral us into the huddle and persuading us with promises of treats after the game. We grew up together; and together, we grew up with football. We stood on the sidelines now, watching the end zone clock tick away faster than ever before, as if it had someplace better
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silent. Everyone that filled the stands was holding their breath, and all any of us could do was stare. There wasn't any specific reason that I loved Wilson football so much. I just loved it. Supporting my friends, cheering in the stands, and celebrating all the victories could make anyone love it. At home everyone knows Wilson football is the best in the area. Nothing made me happier than being able to tell people that I went to Wilson. There was only one other person that felt the same way I
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It was the summer of 2016, I had just filled out a form to apply to the O-D football camp Bowl hosted in Atlanta , GA, One of the biggest football camps known in the U.S . Tomorrow was my departure to Atlanta, GA an 3hr and 35 minute drive. That morning, I was so ready, I could run to Atlanta! My Dad told me to load everything on the truck, so we can head out, get breakfast, and get on the interstate. Once we got good on the road. I realized I forgot my cleats at home, so we had to stop at the
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a series of football fields of the opposing team, and occasionally at Harrison High School. Danny remembers his home field with the traditional two goal posts, and the marked white lines. They were marked every 10 yards, and unmistakable end zones. The scent of the locker room filled the air, and there was benches that we sat at. The bleachers are what held the fans, and kept our spirit up through bad times. Plot: A typical fifth grade boy had made the mistake of joining a football team thinking
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