One Day Of Everyday Life By Dorothy Reilly Summary

While 70% of the NFL players having African-American descent, there’s a difference between journalist and sports reporters, with 80% of the radio and TV broadcasters being White and 9% being Black. These articles, The Experience of Media and Race in the National Football League – An Existential Phenomenological Study (Fisher 2008), Depicting the Quarterback in Black and White: A Content Analysis of College and Professional Football Broadcast Commentary (Billings 2004), and Race and ethnicity in U.S. sports media (Davis & Harris 1998) examined the connections between Black NFL players and experienced media reporters. The data was recorded and studied, and main themes were acknowledged. The athletes report themes of: (1) the players’ view of how media coverage affects the NFL players, (2) the players’ perceptions of media personnel, and (3) the athletes’ perception of black quarterbacks. The study of the experienced media reporters’ meetings uncovers three major themes: (1) perceptions of how the media cover the NFL, (2) interrelationships with NFL players, and (3) playing quarterback in the NFL.

In Rick Bragg’s article, “Down Here,” he portrays the importance of football in the South through his use of the rhetoric triangle. He establishes ethos through his stories of growing up in the South and giving various examples of Southerners that held football in such a bright light. He gives a logical reason for why the South is so dominant in the sport, establishing logos. Finally, Bragg uses the hardships of the South to create an overwhelming sense of pathos. Bragg is able to combine all three of these elements, ethos, logos, and pathos, to create a story that draws in the readers attention and has them hanging on to every word.

What is lost is not always easy to replace, and losses suffered are not always easy to overcome. Grief hangs heavily and normal life suddenly becomes hard to go through with the impact of recent events. Rick Reilly addresses this in his essay The Real New York Giants. His nostalgic and somber tone reflect the gravity of the situation, remembering his dear friends who were lost in the tragic event. In his essay The Real New York Giants, Rick Reilly uses imagery, rhetorical questions, and diction to convey the impact of loss on people and how they recover and return to their daily lives without the familiar presence of people they lost.

Football fans and even everyday people are the target audience for Buchman’s article. He points out his intended audience by saying, “[o]n Sundays, I’d feel either the joy of my team winning or the pain of their defeat.” Experiencing the triumphs and frustration of your team is a feeling any fan can relate to. Although everyday people are not as effected by the winning and losing they still care about people. No sane person wants to see other people get smacked around for sport. Buchman hopes his readers will stop denying the atrocities and shed light on the issues at hand by either protesting the NFL or holding them accountable for their actions. Buchman clearly illustrates these intentions with the quote, “[o]ver the past decade, though, football went from being a distraction from life’s harsh realities to a reminder of them.” With multiple cases of CTE occurring it suddenly becomes hard to deny the realness of the damage NFL players are experiencing. Knowing that your favorite

Sports of old were merely competitive activities rooted in heroism and romanticism. Sports activities today, however, have no such innocence or simplicity. Currently in America, the activities that make up our sports culture is not only the competitive events themselves but the processes and issues that underlie and surround them. Entwined in our sports culture is the giant business of mass broadcasting. Indeed, sports and the media go hand in hand like peanut butter and jelly, like Mickey and Minnie, Darth Vader and Luke. They are intertwined and depend on each other to continue to grow. Sports media includes television, radio, magazines, newspapers, books, films, and, now, most importantly, social media devices provided by the

Football is a religion in my house, and during football season my parents get a little crazy. Every Sunday, they are decked out in full blue and green gear. Similarly, some people take sports a little too seriously, like Theodore Roosevelt's son, who whined to his father about not getting in the second squad. Responding to his son's obsession with sports, Theodore Roosevelt, the famous president of the United States, tries to convince his son, Ted, that sports shouldn't be his first priority. By empathizing with his son, using shifting tone and using step-by-step reasoning, Roosevelt articulates his point.

The prevailing arguments in the scholarly literature discourage coercive patriotism at NFL games and view it as morally problematic. Tricia Jenkins describes the evolution of the nationalistic spectacle that the NFL orchestrates as a ‘patriotic theatre’. The common language used by the media in these spectacles increasingly includes war metaphors, which “devalue the war experience by trivializing its horrors” while conflating war and football in the minds of the public. Michael Shapiro, on the other hand, views NFL games as a suitable platform for the military to communicate with the American public because religion is no longer the most effective means to summon Americans. Yet, Samantha King argues that NFL games have increasingly become a surrogate for the public’s experience of war, which she views as morally

“At times Odessa had the feel of lingering sadness that many isolated places have, a sense of the world orbiting around it at dizzying speed while it stood stuck in time...300 miles from the rest of the world” (33). Odessans don’t mind the isolation because they have high school football to wrap their lives around. In 1988, H.G. Bissinger moved to Odessa,Texas and had the up close and personal opportunity to study a small southern town and see how high school football affected the lives of its residents. In the same fashion, writer Lewis Lapham studied how sports affect people from all over the nation and came to the conclusion that sports must “preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.” Lapham’s views can clearly be linked to the

“Cut”, a nonfiction piece written by Bob Green, tells stories of multiple peoples’ experience of being cut from a sports team. “Cut” also describes how that cut from that team, at a young age, affected those individuals’ beliefs in adulthood. Being cut from a sports team typically causes men to become more successful and determined to never fail again. Because Maurice McGrath was kicked out of his sports team, it affected how determined he was to accomplish tasks as a youth and how he thought people should perceive themselves as an adult. In the eighth grade, after Maurice was put down by his baseball coach for not being able to hit the ball, Maurice found determination through his coach’s harsh words and vowed to never “be hurt like that again.”

In the article, Is media coverage of the NFL's problems fair or foul?By McClatchy-Tribune News Service, adapted by Newsela staff, the author states if the players of the National Football League’s problems reflect on their daily lives after the football game. According to the article, the players actions in their teams manifest their lives at home.

1..An American Apotheosis, written by Joseph L. Price, discusses the religious element of sports. His thesis, “For tens of millions of devoted fans throughout the country, sports constitute a popular form of religion by shaping their world and sustaining their ways of engaging it.” (Price, p. 196) Takes on the difficult challenge of defining sport as religion. This is done through Price’s exploration of how sports shape and engage the world for the millions of devoted fans in America, how sports enable participants to explore levels of selfhood, how sports establish a means for bonding with the devotee community, how sports model ways to deal with fate while playing by the rules and how sports provide the prospect of experiencing abundant life.

In this article, the first device that the writer uses is parenthesis to describe the meaning of specific words or abbreviations such as “CBS (the network that broadcasts NFL games).” The writer also uses quotation marks as emotive language to stress words such as “visible injuries,” “investigation,” and “role.” Another main device that lets the readers to make a think is rhetorical question, for example, “Do we need cell phone video of every assault to make the NFL pick up the ball?” This article might influence the reader in written style because the writer puts his or her feelings and thoughts into the

Growing up in a household full of males, minus my Mother, Monday nights were always such a big deal to our family for one reason, Monday Night Football! It did not matter if the team we disliked the most was playing, our whole family was glued to the television after seven o’clock. It was not until I was enrolled into this class, that I figured out how one man changed the game of sports television single handedly. This man went by the name of Roone Arledge. I chose to write about this topic because I know how much of an impact sports television had on my family. It always brought us closer together no matter how stressful our weeks were. We always enjoyed spending that time together and Roone Arledge was the visionary behind all of it.

Arthur Ashe, a professional tennis player who won three Grand Slam titles, spent many of his last days writing his memoir, Days of Grace. In the chapter My Dear Camera, Ashe writes to his daughter giving her advice for a future without her father, and in that advice suggests that she finds a couple ‘life sports’. Another author, David Halberstam, writes of the importance of sports in his book The Teammates, describing the bond and friendship that baseball players Ted Williams, Dom DiMaggio, Bobby Doerr, and John Pesky had throughout their baseball careers as well as after their baseball careers were over. In both of these quotes, Ashe and Halberstam demonstrate

Sport differs from other forms of entertainment in that it evokes high levels of emotional attachment (Milner, G.R. & Macdonald, M.A. 2012) For example, currenly in the NRL team The Cronulla Sharks have been involved in a lot of media speculation with the sacking of crucial staff members and several doping scandals undergoing investigation. An eye opening decision for the spectator was the sacking of head coach Shane Flanagan. The fans and spectators of this sport took to Facebook to petition Flanagan and two weeks later was reinstated "I am here now and I am grateful for that. My focus now is on the players, Sunday's game and the season ahead. It has been a tough couple of weeks for so many people. It has been terrible; it has been hard on family, friends and players. I am glad we have been able to sort this out,” said Shane Flanagan, head coach of The Cronulla Sharks during a recent