Discourse Community: The Sport Of Football

When watching or listing to a baseball game you can tell that the broadcasters are very knowledgeable about the sport, each team, players, etc.. However, this is something that just doesn’t happen over night since the complexity of this specific genre system inside the broadcasting discourse community. Remember that certain criteria of discourse communities according to novelist John Swales, “A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals” (Swales 220). These public goals can be achieved by genre systems. That’s why there has to be a lot of preparation by both the broadcasters and even more from those that work behind the scenes for the team to make this genre system function properly inside the broadcasting discourse community.

After I watched two hours of intense play and the huddle split, I observed high fives and complex handshakes of some sort. “Hampton on three. Hampton on three. ONE, TWO, THREE, HAMPTON!” They started coming my way; as an ex-basketball player, deep down I yearned for a handshake or some kind of acknowledgment, but I sat there like a fork in the road. Each member parted around me to my left and to my right, some giving head nods and some giving nothing at all. I quickly realized that I was clearly not a part of this discourse community.

Many compare the National Football League (NFL) with college football but the two are not extremely similar and should never be compared. Yes, besides a few minor rule changes the NFL and college football are the same game; but there is much more to football then the rules. College football is better than the NFL for a wide variety of reasons. First, there exists more passion in college football all around the sport. Passion cannot be measured in anyway but can be observed and understood by the fans, coaches, and sports community. Players care more about the game and less about money, while the fans have great passion for the university they

This article “When Theodore Roosevelt Saved Football” by Bruce Watson is mainly to inform readers about how Theodore Roosevelt influenced and saved the once-endangered sport American football by making it safer. The author begins by comparing American football today to football in the past as deadly. The author states that in today’s American football it is known for causing fewer injuries and least lethal, however, during Roosevelt’s time the players sustained more injuries and deaths due to minimal protective equipment and momentum plays. Watson mentions Roosevelt’s proposal about the pros and cons of football at meetings with college coaches and athletic directors. The meetings were postponed due to football’s scrutiny of violence.

American football did not have a great start and has had somewhat of a troubling past. The first known “trial run” of American football was a game played in 1869 between two very well known rugby rivalry schools in Rutgers College and Princeton. The game was used by modified London Football Association and rugby rules. In the late 1880’s, Yale graduate Walter Camp, began to pioneer rules changes for the new game of American football and soon became known as the “father” of American football. At the turn of the 20th century, America’s football gridirons were killing fields; even still the college game drew tens of thousands of spectators and rivaled professional baseball in fan appeal, but football in the early 1900s was still lethally brutal. Due to the results of 18 deaths and 159 serious injuries

Football, to many, is America’s past time. It is the most popular sport in the United States and is played all over the world. American football has originated from the sports soccer and rugby. The first official football game was played on November 6, 1869, which was played between Princeton and the Rutgers. Football to this day is seen as one of the best sports, but many people do not realize that football can cause severe damage to a player. Approximately thirty-six million kids play youth football every year. Many of the thirty six million children have endured injuries ranging from minor scratches to severe head damage. Football is not as magnificent as people perceive it to be. Youth football has become too

ince the year of 1892, American football has brought joy to many people. All across America, people have fallen in love with this intense and violent sport. When the players make a amazing play or gets hit really hard, people cheer. Football is an amazing sport because it builds character. It also show the athletes how to be discipline. It’s a very fun sport to play because you can take stress out. I hope my son wants to play football because it would teach him discipline, it might become his career, and it would help him build his physical strength.

American Football goes back to the late 1800s. The game of American football itself was moderately new in 1892. It began from two games, soccer and rugby, which was delighted around the globe. On November 6, 1869, Rutgers and Princeton played what was charged as the principal school football game. In any case, it wasn't until the 1880s that an incredible rugby player from Yale, Walter Camp, spearheaded decides changes that gradually changed rugby into the new session of American Football. From that point forward the amusement has turned out to be exceptionally risky. American football is a game that can be severe, and it regularly feels like the main target is to hit the individual with the ball as hard as would be prudent. As football proceeds through the fall, an ever increasing number of individuals tune in every year to watch their most loved group to perform well, or not in the least.

Children are sponges that wish to absorb life lesson and benefits. Perseverance, how to react when you get knocked down , the idea of teamwork, accountability, the element of toughness, learning what it takes to put maximum effort into something and knowing you can expect a certain outcome, selflessness, cooperation, time management skills, less participation in risky behaviors, family support, community involvement and communication skills all from what looked like “just a sport” the list goes on an on but from experience doesn’t sum up the total of life skills/benefits football has to offer. Kim Gorgens a clinical professor at the University of Denver says “ organized sports are a learning lab for life. They steep kids in everything from frustration management to diplomacy to collaboration….” Football is as lasting as its worth of sacrifice and discipline, standing forever firm regardless of society’s

Football has been a major sport in the United States. People across the world play this famous sport, such as children, teens and adults. Many kids enjoy playing football, but football can be very dangerous and may have cons to the sport.

Players in football teams build character by learning how to work together and experiencing the state of winning or losing. It teaches young men the dedication it takes to make something you want happen. Coaches push these athletes almost completely to the max so they’ll see for themselves how much effort is put into obtaining a longing goal. Football players develop social skills and begin to have more respect for others around them no matter who they are. Not only do they learn life skills they also start to see themselves as a positive images boosting their self esteem.

Football started November 6, 1869. The first game was played by Rutgers and Princeton. Over 200 million people now play the sport. A professional football player has to have many skills, some education, and has the potential to make a lot of money.

From some point of views, football seems like a meaningless sport where a bunch of idiotic brutes try to see who can hit the hardest. But behind all of that, football can teach very good personality traits and characteristics. The coaches aren’t always just about winning, most would rather teach their players right from wrong and how they should live their lives and want them to always do the right thing. They teach discipline, hard work, and

Football was a sport originated from Soccer and Rugby rules.Walter Chauncey Camp also known as the “Father of American Football” actually invented the sport of Football. Football has been around for many years.Some know where the first football game was played, some know who invented the Pro Bowl, and some know where the first Super Bowl was played. Many games have been played, many tackles have been made. Some don’t know the history of Football.

Football is a team sport in the deepest sense. The game may be most readily associated with its brutalities—hard helmet against soft flesh, foot against turf, the pounding and the scraping and the crunching—but it is also, in its way, delicate. Each play is a ballet in miniature, a work of intricate choreography that casts every player as a crucial member of the corps; the quarterback and his receivers may be the most visible to viewers, yes, but to win—to get that weird little ball over that fixed little line, as many times as it takes—everyone must run the route set out for them. In football, as in so many other things, it can be hard to tell where the “I” ends and the “we” begins.