Summary Of Man Up By Brian Phillips

Football is America’s go to entertainment sport. The NFL hit its peak in 2015, with an average of 114.1 million television viewers throughout the year (“Statista,” 2017). This sport is loved by all, the players, parents, coaches, and fans. But, is football merely entertainment? Is it just a simple game, teaching young boys the value of teamwork, dedication, and discipline? Are parents spending their Friday nights to support their boys, or is there something bigger happening? In H.G Bissinger’s novel, Friday Night Lights, one can see the true effects of this toxic drug through the mindset of the players and the actions of the coaches. While society sees football as entertainment, it actually functions more like a drug.

Almond argues that football fans are complicit in the multitude of inevitable injuries that take place in the game and should consider halting their support. He often compares war and football, attempting to connect the prominent violence in both activities. In addition to this, Almond uses personal stories of harm caused during football games to further his point. He illustrates hard hits on the field from well known players and a personal friend. Furthermore, Steve Almond uses bits of irrefutable medical evidence to prove why watching the Super Bowl may is a negative thing. He then takes all of his points and poses the

The National Football League. A level of football where the best of the best are payed to strut their stuff and show why they are the best of the best and deserved to get paid big bucks for what they do. The NFL is composed of 32 professional teams. But today I’m here to talk about only one of the 32 teams known as the Philadelphia Eagles. They are one of my favorite teams and I support them through thick and thin. In 2015, the Philadelphia Eagles media staff released a hype video for the 2015-2016 season called: It’s Time to Work with former Eagle Safety Brian Dawkins being the speaker in the video. He was a reasonable choice for the 2015 hype video due to his powerful voice and how much of an influence he was on the city of Philadelphia. Today, I will be analyzing the video using rhetorical analysis.

Even though football players are aware of the dangers the game can bring upon them, they take part despite it. The passion, the joy it creates; for professionals it’s also the devoted fans and compensation they receive is what keeps the players motivated. Today players are much bigger, faster, smarter, bigger, better. The game is more physical. The sport has never been so competitive. The popularity has reached new peaks, as much that the NFL has thoughts of moving a team to London, England. Additionally, Super Bowl XLVII (47) was one of the most watched television events of all time; an astonishing 108.4 million viewers (The Associated Press). Fans worship their teams and love to see big hits. Football is a contact sport; injuries are no

The spectator of this sport has an obligation to the players of the sport, to make sure that the organization is protecting and looking out for them. Yet not only should the viewer be held accountable for the lack of communication in consequences between the player and the pro scene, but the organization of the NFL needs to make sure that their players have a full understanding of what is going on and how they need to protect the players. The current situation that is understood, contents contain implied knowledge that all parties of this table are in uniform knowledge and agreement to what comes of playing football. Finally, this should also happen at the youth level when kids are just getting into the sport, as it would better inform the parents and the kid if they understood the full

Although the National Football League (NFL) seems to provide a source of entertainment for Americans, it is slowly but surely brainwashing our population. Starting in September, a great majority of the American population gathers around TV screens and crowds into stadiums across the country to watch men ram into each other in hopes of getting a leather ball to the end of a field. This occurs every Sunday, as well as the occasional Saturday and Monday night. Fans spend hundreds of dollars on game tickets, and NFL Ticket TV subscriptions to ensure that they never miss a game. If we were to take a step back and look at it, these weekly occurrences seem to become ritualistic. What was supposed to be a source of entertainment has become a routine

Football is an American sport that consists of two teams composed of 11 men. On the 100-yard field, they go head to head, trying to keep the other team from advancing the ball down the field toward the end zone, resulting in a touchdown or field goal. Football pits the two teams against each other. The offense, which possesses the ball, is placed against the defense, which tries to prevent the offense from advancing the ball. Several different resources can contribute to a team’s success. Some of those resources are funds, talent level of players, and favorable position on the field, which makes it easier to score points. The four sociological perspectives, structural functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, and social exchange theory, all credit different reasons for one team being able to achieve this goal more often than another team. Nevertheless, any of the sociological perspectives you view the sport from, football is a very complex entity. Football is more than just a group of men pounding one another. There is a complex equation that eventually equals success; the differences between these perspectives are the components of the equation that are most heavily weighed on for success. Although it may be a combination of all three perspectives that leads to success in football, it is fair to look at the game from each perspective individually because each holds important insight into what truly leads to a successful football team.

The NFL generates crazy amount of revenue by marketing the violence. Many people buy into the “King sized” hits propaganda and think nothing of the actual physical damage. The documentary “A League of Denial” reveals how detrimental masculinity can when placed upon a nation stage such as the NFL. Mike Webster, an offensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers is considered patient zero, his brain started the investigation which prompted this two hour special on PBS’ “Frontline” series. He was diagnosed with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) and was dead by 50.

Regarding the Dewan Smith-Williams case they’re goal to me is to protect the brand and not to protect the husband from himself and his high risk behavior to his wife and family because they didn’t want her to go to the police and keep it silent. I think Mrs. Williams made the right call to come forth and let it be known that spouses and/or partners are being treated unfair and something needs to be done. In my opinion, maybe if fans, anti-violence groups and women’s rights organizations get together and organize a plan that could force the owners to enact stronger and lasting reforms to improve the NFL actions and response to domestic abuse. They should make some amendments to the personal conduct policy. This topic relates to the discussion on human behavior because we want to know what causes the domestic abuse from the spouse especially if the abuser is in the NFL, a super star, and fame is growing and so forth. Find out what area of treatment and theory practice could be used to help the

Phillips has been a fan of the NFL for many years. Being a fan of the NFL has allowed Phillips to better understand the game and what goes on between the players. Phillips reads the tweets and watches the games, so he is well informed about anything that happens in the NFL, both on and off the field. In his essay, Phillips writes about the bullying scandal that happened to Jonathan Martin. Martin was bullied online by Richie Incognito for leaving the team to deal with emotional issues. Phillips tell us what he thinks about the scandal and what he thinks about football through his years of

In the article “Does Football Have a Future?” Ben McGrath writes about an issue that has been plaguing football since the late 1800s. The issue is the controversy over the NFL and their football players’ health – both physically and mentally. It is most specifically over the concussion crisis. McGrath provides information from his experiences with the NFL, the players, and the doctors. Throughout the article, there are also many quotes from these experiences with the people who are involved with football. His overwhelming use of logos is what makes his position uncertain. This creates a fallacy because he does not compel the reader to have the same opinion as him. McGrath’s own opinion is unclear from the reader’s standpoint due to that fact that he presents evidence behind banning football, reforming football, and keeping football the same

An increasingly popular topic in the realm of sports fans has begun to unravel. The National Football League recently has begun to introduce new rules and regulations for their athletes to start abiding by to ensure the continued safety of the player’s health. Although most find this change in the game of professional football as a positive step forward, others see this as a diminishment of the sanctity of NFL football. New rules and regulations that have been introduced into NFL are vital to athletes involved in the sport and help them to play with lowered risks of long term injuries that could possibly affect not only them but also the league in the future as well. The reasons for these

ESPN explains that their employees are supposed to be respectful and responsible and represent the NFL’s values and the permissible actions that are done for the good of the league. It has been brought up that the league should dismantle its current personal conduct policy and just leave it with the bare minimum, general rules. “This bare essentials policy allows the justice system to deal with substantial behavioral breaches by players” (Goff) so that the NFL can be removed from any decision-making or investigating involved with a player’s personal conduct issues. By removing the NFL from these positions of authority, it will return the power to the “criminal justice system [which should] [have] primary responsibility” (Goff) over the players; this way the NFL does not have to worry about their players’ actions every second of every day. One cannot argue that the concept of allowing the justice system to take care of any conduct issues that arise in the NFL is not such a disastrous idea. Sometimes the league is too involved with player, even team, problems which can cause turmoil among the media and fans because the league accomplishes all they can to keep their players safe and more importantly, maintain the positive image of the

In order to truly appreciate the overall beneficial influence football has had on American culture between the 1890’s and 1930’s, we cannot turn a blind eye to the negative obstacles football has overcome. In the early years of development, football was played similarly to rugby and universities played by different rules, making standardization within the sport a difficult task to accomplish. One of the major problems observed during the infancy of football was the sheer violence witnessed on the field. Mass play was the common play style during the first years of football in which the entire offensive force would focus on one spot of the defense; the offense was determined to go through the defense rather than go around them. The raw power behind these plays lead to serious injuries as well as the death of a player in the early 1900’s. This disastrous event deterred numerous universities from playing football out of fear of a repeat of events. Following more serious injuries

A new market has developed over the past hundred years into one of the most lucrative businesses in the United States today, the business of sports. Out of all the sports, football in particular is extremely popular and is the most watched game in the country; so much so that the championship game being considered a national holiday. In this particular sport and the business of it, we find a home to militarism, nationalism and patriotism proudly displayed even in the National Football League’s logo. This week’s game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Indianapolis Colts showcased these three ideologies, though different than how I originally anticipated. Football makes a perfect host to these three ideologies due to the parallels between the values of the military and sports teams as well as the elasticity of sports and their ability to change over time.