Inspirational Speech About Football

on how the NFL can more effectively build the NFL brand and continue to grow its fan base?

The NFL benefits from having football being a common conversation point in schools and workplaces. From fantasy football leagues to highly intricate betting in Las Vegas. There is not just passion, but dollars and time being invested by the end consumer. The NFL saturates Thanksgiving television, it’s players are often celebrities, its story lines are on the tip the American male. Knowing the game of football is often a rite of passage. Football is American tradition. The NFL clearly has it’s place in American culture. It is evident in the outpouring of corporate sponsors into the league. Companies recognize the visibility NFL players offer to their products and the NFL leverages that back into its brand. All aspects surrounding the sport are sponsored. From the sports drink the players slurp then dump on their coaches after victories—to the on-the-field tablets branded with the iconic window for drawing up plays. The jerseys, cleats, gloves, hats, helmets, pads—and that is just on the field. There’s food, cars, watches, headphones—it seems everything that scrapes past the NFL becomes sponsored in some way. Backing from the NFL appears to currently have exponential upside increasing brand awareness.

What is supposed to be one of the most prestigious honors in all of sports has become a joke in the NFL. Calling the Pro Bowl the NFL’s All-Star game is an insult to All-Star games. It is a sham.

I stood there in anticipation, speech in hand, facing the crowd. Then, I ripped apart the speech, but I had no worries about the paper. After all, I had already memorized the whole speech. At that moment, my goal was to inspire people with my speech. I had never thought I would be able to stand there in the gaze of a giant audience.

While growing up in the state of Texas I was introduced to National Football League (NFL) at a very young age. Not only was I obsessed with great players like Emmitt Smith and Michael Irving, I had a more finical appreciation for the lucrativeness associated with the NFL. My young adulthood as well as my teenage years was spent playing and learning football with the aspirations of hopefully making it to the NFL. Unfortunately, my playing days ended with tryouts at Texas Tech University, but my love for the game has remained stagnant over the years even till this day. The NFL today is Americas most watched sports league and has taken the crown as the most lucrative and unique economic force in sports. Forbes offered approximations stating that on average, the NFL generates more than $6-9 billion a year in revenues alone. A third of the individual franchises in the league were appraised at over more than $1 billion while the other franchises average nine figures or higher. The NFL as an organization generates its revenues through a multitude of ways ranging from huge television contracts, in-stadium ticket sales, advertising ads paid for by sponsors and merchandise. Their business model unlike most other leagues, is centered on a hard salary cap on player contracts which provides cost certainty with its sponsors. In this paper, I will examine the economic and historical narrative associated with the growth of the NFL’s

With how many sporting events that there are in this country, it is common to see fans that love multiple games. Professional sports are typically favored by most followers, but there is a clear deficiency that hurts the leagues. Professional sports are exhilarating if one is a fan of a playoff team or especially a team that wins championships on a regular basis. While this is great for traditional powerhouses and teams with endless amounts of money, the majority of teams in these leagues serve as punching bags for years or even multiple decades. There is a fine line between these teams and other organizations that struggle just to make financial ends meet. Teams in financial

Every fall a majority of Americans count down the days to the start of every NFL season. It is the time of the year when people look forward to traveling to their favorite team’s stadium, or powering up the big screen to watch the game. The NFL provides an outlet every Sunday for people to relax and enjoy exciting entertainment. Everyone looks forward. So many people have invested themselves into their favorite team by purchasing season tickets, sporting countless items of team gear, devoting many hours to fantasy football, and gambling. It is no secret the level of impact that the NFL has on so many people of all ages and genders. The NFL does a great job marketing their product

In spite of the online persona that the League tries to portray with its web pages and national conferences, it’s easy to see and hear the anger and disorganization that this organization exhibits. After

The National Football League (NFL) has experienced various public relations crises over the past year. Ranging from domestic violence cases to disputes over game regulations and officiating, the NFL has dealt with many issues in a less than graceful manner. Scrutiny from the general public, sports analysts, and those within the organization has only compounded the NFL’s existing problems. Commissioner Roger Goodell, though he has attempted to remedy these situations and restore the NFL’s image, has largely mishandled the recovery processes of each issue. Here, the most prominent controversies will be discussed; how each situation was handled, either correctly or incorrectly, and how the NFL could have acted differently will

Do you watch the NFL because if you do you could see the player kneel during the National Anthem. You might say “Is that even legal” well it is and you're allowed to do it even though you shouldn’t. That’s legal to except the president doesn’t like it. I'm going to tell you about America’s freedoms and tell you about America’s gift to my generation. If you think it's illegal it's not but most people think kneeling is a terrible. Having this freedom isn't terrible at all and I will tell you why it's not.

going undiagnosed. The NFL was in the midst of a crisis and had to do something in order to

After 16 years, the NFL has been investigating the past failure, and looking at new and different avenues in order to realize its objective, to globalize the league international. This is put into better terms by Richard Sandomir from The New York Times, he stated, “But N.F.L. Europa, born 16 years ago as the World League of American Football, lost money, ran through television partners, narrowed its trans-Atlantic focus largely to Germany and finally was shuttered yesterday. The NFL’s strategy will shift to playing regular-season games overseas.” (Sandomir, The New York Times). Ultimately, the NFL decided to cut ties with the NFL Europe model and revert back to building a foreign following

I would like to see the NFL expand globally. According to the text, the NFL has been developing the World Football League (WFL) since 1991 with Montreal, London, Barcelona, and Frankfurt willing to participate (Thoma, 2013). With the success of playing professional games overseas, has spark an interest globally to expand teams in Europe. A major road block that the WFL has is how the United States views this league. Most of America views the international leagues as minor league’s instead of equals. The WFL will have a better chance of success in Europe because of the size of the public, and the NFL already has a following. The WFL has not expanded globally for a few reasons. One being that this is not the typical game that Europeans play,

I would like to take a moment to thank all of you for being here. This is such an important moment in my life. I never thought that I would make it here me joining the NFL seems like such a crazy thought yet, here I am. I will get right into it and say that the team I am joining is the Cincinnati Bengals some of you may criticize my choice but, ever since I was little I have always wanted to join the Cincinnati Bengals. I always dreamed of being a famous NFL Football player up on the field with other famous players. This… This had just blown me away me being up here after joining NFL just great. There were many people in my life who told me that I could never join the NFL but now I am going to be on National TV playing for millions of people…

Playing football has had the most impact on the development of my character. I started playing football when I was 5 years old. Playing football has taught me many valuable lessons. While playing football, I have better understood the values of hard work. Football taught me that the only way to succeed in something is by working harder than anyone else. Football has also taught me that when working with a team, everybody has an important role and if one person slacks off it hurts the entire team. There is no “I” in team and teamwork is a valuable life lesson. Whenever teammates are focused on individual accomplishments, instead of the team’s success, the team as a whole does not perform as well. I have learned through this that when you