Personal Narrative: Loss Of Opportunity

Last Wednesday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York declined to reconsider its April decision not to overturn four-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady’s four-game suspension, handed down by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in May 2015. Consequently, the New England Patriots quarterback recently ended his fight against the punishment, deciding to forego his final option of appealing to the Supreme Court.

My move from South Korea to the United States was to this day the hardest, most stressful event of my whole entire life. At the age of six, I gave up the comfort of my friends, culture, and home to move to a country halfway across the world. Korea was everything I knew and loved. Having never set foot outside of the country, all my dreams and aspirations were set in Korea. Although I was a fickle child and my goals changed constantly, they all were intertwined with Korea. I was going to become a pianist in Korea and teach piano to students. Another time, I decided I was going to become a math teacher at the school I was attending. My view of the world was limited, but I was happy in my familiar, safe place. My move to America changed my whole perspective.

After enduring probably the longest 7 months of his life, Tom Brady overcame adversity after beating the 4 game suspension that was handed down by NFL Commissioner Rodger Goodell. There was a lot of speculation behind "deflategate" that tainted Tom Brady's name and legacy after hearing about him destroying his phone during the investigation, but in the end, Brady's suspension was overturned by a judge in court which automatically made him eligible to play against the Steelers in Week 1. During the whole ordeal, Brady remained silent and kept his name clear of any attention while the investigation was active, but on September 3rd, his suspension was nullified and Brady finally spoke out.

First, it is ridiculous for David Mancina to try and sue the NFL and the commissioner for rightfully punishing a team in their opinion. Mr. Mancina has no rights to say what is right or wrong for the NFL or commissioner to do especially since he does not hold a leadership role such as a stakeholder, coach, general manager, etc. with the Saints of even in the NFL. Who is he to say that the league does not have sufficient evidence to warrant the suspensions? That is kind of ridiculous to say in my opinion. This is kind of the risk you take when you purchase sporting event tickets in advance; you never know what could happen with

At the beginning of the 2013 NFL season everybody around the league thought Miami Dolphins locker room was healthy and a good place to be. It was just like any other locker room in the NFL. On Monday, October 28, half way through the season, Jonathan Martin abruptly walked away from the Dolphins facilities. Martin then checked himself into a nearby hospital, where he requested psychological treatment. After a couple of days after the incident, reports came out saying that Martin left the team because of persistent bullying, harassment, and ridicule being done to him. The Dolphins then requested the NFL to investigate the incident. The investigation found that there were three Dolphins offensive lineman who were involved in the harassment of Martin. The biggest player in the incident was Richie Incognito.

A year ago, my cousins began a “family” fantasy football league. Over Sunday lunches they would converse about their stats and players and jokingly tease one another about their bad picks during the draft. I would always sit back and listen quietly. I wasn’t asked to play, just like I was never asked to join them when they would throw the old pigskin around in my grandparents’ backyard. I was the dainty little girl in the sea of teenage boys trying to rough house. I only ever had the chance to play when I was forced and pitied onto a team. When it came to the fantasy team this year though, I vowed that things would be different. I would be in that league and would prove to them that I could play… and win.

What causes a suspension? An NFL player is suspended for failing NFL rules of play/actions on

The fallout from the case resulted in a two-year postseason ban, a four-year probationary period, but maybe most significantly, a complete disassociation between the school and the Fab Five. All banners were removed. All records were vacated”.

In March 2012, the NFL distributed sanctions to Saints coaches and front-office staff for their parts in the bounty scandal. Sean Payton was suspended for the entire 2012 season and Gregg Williams was suspended indefinitely. Loomis was suspended for the first eight games of the 2012 season. The Saints were also fined the maximum fine permitted under the league constitution. Commissioner Roger Goodell also took away the Saints second-round draft picks in 2012 and 2013. In May of 2012, the NFL suspended four current or former Saints players that were involved in the bounty scandal. He also gave the league's teams until the end of March 2012 to confirm in writing that they do not have any bounty programs. Teams were also required to confirm that

Jacksonville State University is in fact, one of the nicest and friendliest campuses in the south. Coming to this friendly campus on preview day, had been the first thought in my mind of how amazing this beautiful campus is. For example, when I came to orientation, I met with the friendliest guides who were so willing to answer questions and show me where to go. From orientation to the first day of school, I walked around and everyone is welcoming always saying hey and the professors care about your education. Thus, being the friendliest campus in the south is just one reason I chose to call Jacksonville my home.

In college football’s offseason, the news we hear is often that of arrests and suspensions (unfortunately). There are probably a couple of good reasons for that:

Alternative solution one, suspending Hardy for five games, was shown to be the least effective option. It received the lowest numbers when I evaluated the effect it would have on each decision criteria. There would be many disadvantages if Richardson chose this solution. For the factor, fans’ responses to the punishment, I rated it a one out of ten. It is evident that Ray Rice’s two-game suspension was seen as too mild of a punishment. If Richardson gave Hardy a five-game suspension, there could be another backlash because of the fans’ responses. This would create an entirely new problem for the NFL, damaging their reputation. The Carolina Panther’s income would also worsen. In Exhibit 3, it is clear that the Panther’s income is extremely dependent on their merchandise, ticket sales and broadcasting. If Hardy is only suspended for five games, the team could lose support from many fans. This would cause their broadcasting, ticket sales and merchandise to decline, which would have a

There is an outdoor seating space (no tables) for drinking on the curb and talking with friends if this is your thing

If you really want a cheap but fun night, having a movie night would be a very good idea. We have Redbox that you can rent movies from for $1.50 a day. The Redbox has a great variety of movies, and it iz usually stocked pretty well with favorable movies. The Redbox’s here in Tell City are placed pretty conveniently for movie nights, the four that we have are placed around grocery stores. There are two at Walmart, one at Dollar General, and one at Family Dollar. A more convenient source for movies is Netflix, it is $7.99 a month and it has great movies and television shows. Movie nights and Netflix binge watching is

One of those summer nights with your friends when you just want to go out and have the time of your life , yea this was the night. I started off the day with excitement knowing it was the last day of junior year of highschool and how great this summer was going to be but the mood was just off it didnt seem like the last day of school.I got home from school and was just so relived i had no more work to worry about and i can just enjoy my days relaxing and hanging out with my friends. For weeks now my friends have been wanting to plan a trip or a one day trip or something exciting to get us away from our boring lives. A couple of ideas were stirring around like going camping for a night in a tent in the moutains in Pennsylavannia or traveling down to Boston for the weekend to go to Fenway to watch the Redsox but couldnt decided. We got together to figure it out at my friends house Dominic ,who lived in the ghetto with a bunch of siblings that never left anybody alone when Dominic had people come over. But his parents were the only ones that didnt mind all four of us coming over . But anyways deciding it took awhile it felt like all night, my two friends jake and cole who were both cheap and didnt like spening any money what so ever wanted to go camping in a tent because it would hardly cost us anything and me and dominic wanted to go to fenway because we never have been there before and it would be a good expiernece. Dominic and I just decided to camping for the night in