Football By Roger Analysis

Football was and is a very popular sport in America and has always been a favorite. Erik Fisher plays football because he is great at the sport, hence page 27, “Dad had brought Erik to meet Coach Warner earlier in the summer. Dad had knelt down and held the ball for Erik to drill fifty-yard field goals, one after another, while according to Dad, the Coach’s jaw had dropped lower and lower.” But, Erik played football primarily for and because of the fame. He had never cared about whether he had to hurt someone in order reach the top of the “Erik Fisher Football Dream”. On September 5 (pages 50-94), when Mike Costello dies of lightning, Paul finds Erik and Arthur laughing about how Mike’s hair was singed off. Paul was disgusted. Though Erik and Arthur didn’t kill Mike, their laughter reflects their inner evil and selfish selves. Paul then reflects on his own self and decides to walk a path of truth, unlike Erik. In continuation, Ray Lewis had once said, “Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal-bottom line.” Erik never had any character or integrity, whether he played sports or not. On the other hand, Paul did have character and integrity. Paul noticed Erik’s evil actions to get higher and higher up the Erik Fisher Football

Many more people came to the next football game because the game before Stargirl was there, was dancing on the field, and when the second half started, grabbed the football off the tee and started dancing around with it and hugging it.

Football remains the most popular sport in America and the ninth most popular sport in the world for a reason. Since its creation in 1869, football has played a fundamental part of American society. Every Sunday, my family along with millions of other Americans turn the television to CBS, NBC or FOX to watch their favorite football team go to battle. My family and I bleed burgundy and gold and root for the home team the Washington Redskins. Americans including myself display great intensity and passion for the game of football and the result of the game often changes my attitude for the better or worse. Watching the game on television may come as exhilarating and entertaining, but playing the game creates the best times. Overall football has made a severe impact on many people’s lives. Football teaches unique lessons in a hands on manner which helps athletes like myself sustain a much more adventurous life. Football has made an immeasurably positive influence upon my life, but the sport has its dangers. Football changes lives.

Football isn’t just about going on the field and playing 4 quarters against another team every week. It’s not just those Friday nights going to watch your high school team play. Football is a brotherhood, it’s your second family. It’s making memories that you will have with you for the rest of your life. It’s the hours of preparation, sweat, tears, blood, bumps and bruises and going back out everyday just to give it your all. Football isn’t just a game that i’ve played it’s something that has shaped me into the person I am today.

Murray learned about society through football. Murray states, “THE ROMANCE IS FOR THE AUDIENCE. No matter how well we played, the locker room smelled like, well, a locker room” (368). Murray

Woods class was called winning in the trenches a book about the Green Bay Packers team in the very beginning of the NFL. it is narrated by hey offensive tackle named Forrest Gregg he gives such a vivid depictions of every single game every single practice and every single person he is with on the team as though I can see it from the comfort of my bedroom . Nick because you both play football I feel like this book will be fantastic for you I know you like the Steelers had to shame but that does not change the fact that this book is one of the best that I've ever read The Way Forest pics it and during certain games I feel like this could be a candidate for the Great American novel but it's not just I feel one book that can create a great American novel it has to be a multitude of ideas compiled together to create something that is allowed to be labeled the great American novel. but I digress. I feel like this would be fantastic for you the way the forest describes his playing time with Coach Vince it feels like I was alive and playing during the time he was the book and all is so fantastic and I would recommend it to every single person in our classroom if I could.It is such a phenomenal book and you just many literary devices and quotes from actual incidents that I feel like you would be an English teacher is dream in the one instance Forrest Gregg describes the second Super Bowl versus the Dallas Cowboys it was called The Ice Bowl he described the field in the way that makes me feel like I'm standing on it and how when they try to run a go and play the field is so wet and sticky that's a good couldn't find their feet to turn and run we've had that problem little bit 2 in our own teams. change this is one of the best books ever written and as you know that's my favorite team along with Miss Woods. Maybe because it's about the Packers I will get a couple of credit points do you

Odessa’s small size makes it complicated for people to lead lives separate from football. Most everyone can say that they have taken part in the football phenomenon, the Permian Panthers. Jim Lewallen may not be a parent, but football is what he lives for. Being a retiree, Lewallen has been long removed from the highschool scene and yet he still relies on football as a pastime. He takes satisfaction in the players accomplishments as if they are his own children. It is what he looks forward to and what keeps his life interesting and prides himself in knowing all the plays. While anxiously awaiting the beginning of the season Jim explains to Bissinger, “That football is just something that keeps me going’. You know the kids’ moves, you know ‘em personally. It’s just like your own kids”(41). The indirect characterization of Lewallen in this scene leaves us to infer what he is like on a deeper level, leading the reader to conclude that Permian football is the focal point of Lewallen’s life. It presents him as protective, almost fatherly. The intensity he feels is proven when readers are informed that the players are like his

In the beginning of the book, that she explained her experience and life, which she was struggling because she showed her emotions

Later on in the third chapter it got way better it felt like you were actually in the book and talking to the characters. In the beginning it was telling about the characters, Stevie and Susan Carol’s childhood and how they both grew up with really football fan-a-tic parents and they grew into it. However, the title tricks you because Stevie and Susan Carol do not actually play football they are very smart young teenager journalists for college games like Navy, Army, Notre Dame, Air Force, Michigan, and UCLA. They choose reporting because they are adult looking and are really talented in writing. They write on how the refs did on penalties, how they players thought on how they and their team did during the game, gives her opinion on how exciting the game was and what happened, reports injuries. The writer writes with passion like she actually lived through all of these events. She makes the characters feel alive and like your right next to them, you feel what they feel with all the emotions, adjectives used in every

Annie Dillard’s purpose of An American Childhood is that we must give all of our effort, courage, and concentration in every situation of our lives. The paragraph about football is a prime example of this. Dillard explains how in order to succeed in football you have to go into every play wholeheartedly. She also talks about the incident with throwing the snowballs at an adults vehicle. While running from the man Dillard describes how alive she felt in that moment and that it gave her such happiness. She put all the effort she had into running away from that man and it gave her a sense of satisfaction. She states that she did not regret it one bit. It was one of the moments in her life that made her feel most alive.

The novel brings up the idea of greatness, what it is, and what it costs. Coach Rake conditions his players and the town to crave glory in football. He himself is described as a great man because he can make others great. He does this by taking the raw talent of his players and shaping it. Even though “talent came in cycles” (Wednesday, p. 76) with the best players and teams coming in streaks, “Rake’s greatness, however, was winning with players who were small and slow” (Wednesday, p. 76). He works the ones without talent even harder. Therefore, greatness consists in overcoming obstacles and boundaries: “He worked us like dogs and wanted every one of us to be great,” says Paul Curry (Tuesday, p. 51).

The author also describes a broader family situation in which everyone gathers to the mother’s house to for games, even her son battling addiction. The mother writes Reilly, “Everyone comes to my house for games… Whatever the joy or drama in our lives, we live and die with the Packers together” (659). The family's’ love for the Packers brings them together for a family night and strengthens their bond. Reilly speaks of these families to appeal to pathos to connect with the audience and trigger similar memories, like eating Thanksgiving dinner during the big game, to further prove his point that sports have an influence on everyday life. The author’s appeals to pathos prompt sympathy and relatability from his audience to prove that sports journalism has a powerful influence on everyday life and is the best because of this

She evens mentions how because of football, her son has gained confidence that he never had before (Henderson). This is showing one of the main benefits of football. It allows children to become a version of themselves that would not have formed if not for playing.

In the poem, FootBall, Louis Jenkins conveys the idea of football not being called soccer. He does this by using different stylistic features in the poem. To support my thesis, I will begin by explaining, that it is called football because you play it with the foot. “This is not football, it’s a shoe a man’s brown leather oxford”- Louis Jenkins.

Throughout the memoir, there were many times when his team lost games, even ending up on a losing streak. Even though Hornby had broken his ankle, and his team had lost several games in the past, Hornby kept his head held high and managed to go and support his team. In addition to providing humor and irony, this scene’s tone was as optimistic as a football fanatic over his head would be as well as determined as one could be. Although there was some worriedness once finding out that he had a game to go to and something had happened to his ankle, Hornby remained confident with his decision. He was determined and optimistic to go to the game no matter what his own condition was or the condition of the weather, and nothing was to stop him.