When The Game Stands Tall

Many everyday encounters can test our values. In sports conflict is expected, and as skill level increases conflict becomes more prominent. This is even more evident to coaches, as they experience conflict from players, referees, and parents. In my experience, coaching many times I must hold back what I want to say and walk away. One specific encounter with two parents tested my values of respect, positivity, and self-worth. In this experience, two parents confronted me after a game about the substitutions going on on the field, as I was a youth coach learning how to run the bench I was appalled at this statement. In this instance, I related to the barber contemplating what to do, “ What do you gain by it? Nothing.” (pg.15A) I also connected with the idea of upholding a reputation, as I would not want to be viewed as anything less than a great coach, “Murderer or hero?” (pg.15C) My values of respect and positivity helped me walk away from this situation, which further revealed how my character is centered around integrity.

The film in question explores the story of two schools being integrated and the journey to work past racial barriers while trying to successfully incorporate two football teams (Creation of a Team PT.1). Not only did the two teams need to learn to work together, but the story also includes the difficulties of combining coaching techniques and working together to form the team from the managerial side. The film allows us to witness the behavioural stages of team building: Forming, storming, norming and performing. Through these stages, the two teams were able to assimilate and build the bonds necessary to work as a cohesive

Within sports, pressure is always there; you have to learn to deal with it. H. G. Bissinger’s book, Friday Night Lights, hones in on the football team the Permian Panthers of Odessa. Through this focus on the team, one can see how football is an integral part of the town thriving, maintaining its hopes and dreams. Despite the racial and social divide within the community, those Friday night games become a place where dreams may be made possible. In this way, sports, specifically football, not only have an impact on the players but the community as well.

The weather seemed to be against the efforts of the football players. The lack of things to sustain them while in the field made the situation even more difficult. The football players at Logos College practiced under the hot sun with the guidance of their coach Emmett Creed. They performed all the drills as expected and none of them gave excuses for anything; they wanted to give their best results. The determination portrayed by the players is symbolic of that represented by the working class in the society who give their best at their places of work to get good results.

While searching through the round, grey tables and plastic, purple chairs, we came up on the football player, Ethan Jerkowski. Abby and I, McKenzie, inquired him about his favorite things about the new school; without a thought, he responded, “The football coaches.” Continuing the questionnaire, we pursued further by asking him why. “I like that they actually care about us, and that they want us to get better as a team and as an individual.”

Although competition is something that can drive one to the top of a mountain, sometimes there can be an enormous negative consequence that no one can handle. Middletown High School, where Brendan Lawlor and Gary Searle both attend, holds an extremely high competitive atmosphere. In particular, this school puts the most drive into their football players and wrestlers. “Everyone around here knows the football players. Either they see them at the games or they read about them in the newspaper” (78). However, as shown in this book competitiveness may lead to a complicated result, in this case a shooting. As a result of the power put into the athlete at Middletown High School, the athletes and the academic students receive contrasting treatment

This paper will examine the motion picture that was released in 2000, a film named Remember the Titans. The film takes two different groups of peoples, that hates each other to come together and win the league title. The different types of factors that affected the team will be explored in this paper and how a coach takes a team from nothing to winning the league title. The performance of the team had many factors that effected the team, in this paper I will look into organizational group dynamics and team concepts.

As a high school boy, Collis Suggs lives through a period of time in Messina as the town is beginning to become integrated. He and other classmates are unenrolled at their old school to go to an all-white school. As he says, “We were intimidated, but we knew we had to be brave (Grisham, 212).” Through this time, Collis has to deal with this intimidation along with Rake’s rough football practices, yet he manages to be brave and strong each day. At the end of a football game, it is not if he and his team win or lose that matters. It is if he goes home feeling confident about being who he is where he is. Collis is able to prevail over the speculation of racial conflict, and he, as a person, is able to relax.

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 selection of film, I have chosen, is based upon my infatuation with the very intriguing storyline it offers. At first, one may believe that the storyline is nothing more than another movie concerning football. However, the storyline offers a combination of a beloved American sport, along with touching accounts of the lives of each main character, as they dealt with grief and despair independently. Most importantly, the storyline depicts the

Winning may not always be the answer – but when it comes to intercollegiate sports, winning games is the only measurement one can make of a team’s success. A coach must win games in order to keep his professional position, and a each player must effectively fulfill his or her role in order to make this happen. The foundation of any college team is the individual dyad relationships between the coach and each of his players. Through symbolic interactionism and its sub-category social exchange theory, an in depth analysis can be done of a male coach-female athlete relationship – where the cyberself, the core principles of social interaction, a cost and benefit analysis, and both physical and psychological relational currencies can manifest

When the Game Stands Tall has just the right amount of inspirational moments to make the audience feel motivated, without becoming a cheesy chick flick. These inspirational scenes create a heartwarming vibe that every viewer loves in a sports movie. When the Game Stands Tall, uses many different ways to incorporate inspirational moments throughout the film. From intense halftime speeches to dramatic dialogue between players, many inspirational moments are implanted strategically within When the Game Stands Tall. These moments provide a good variation from the fast paced football scenes

I first began my football experience at the age of six playing city league flag football. I’ve come a long way since then and the sport has greatly helped mold me into the person I am today. It’s taught me to keep pushing through adversity and showed me the utmost importance of communication and teamwork. Through football, I have learned that I am a dedicated, passionate individual with an above average work ethic and a vigorous motor. This sport has affected my life greatly and I love it because of that. This is why I hope to find a perfect academic, athletic, and social fit to continue playing football at the collegiate

I think that the qualities of a good movie are for one, having a good story to base it off of. I think this is important because if you don’t have a good main story then the movies just not good. I also think that putting a lot of different emotions in one movie is an important quality for a movie to have. One of my favorite movies is When the Game Stands Tall. This is one of my favorite movies because it has a really good story. In this movie it has a whole bunch of different moods throughout. It makes you happy, excited, but, it also makes you sad and mad at times. I think all good movies have the ability to do that to whoevers watching.

Manassas High School, in Tennessee, was at one point the worst high school football team in the state with losing almost every game, not having enough players, and having members that were not disciplined (show). In time, however, coaches were able to get a solid group of eighth grade boys together and the Manassas High School coaches warned them not to quit and continue high school football. The coaches promised them that if they were patient with the program, by their senior year phenomenons will happen. With motivation lacking, trouble with the law, and lack of discipline, coaches and school staff had a hard time getting the football players disciplined. Four years later, the boys who stuck by the coach’s sides made it to the playoffs. The head coach, Bill, the game of football, and OC Brown were huge factors in giving the football team hope in the huge events that were to come.