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Personal Essay: The Live Experience

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The live experience Introduction United States is a country that is different in all aspects. Immigrants from other nations find their way to America. It makes it difficult to know an America that is typical. The experiences you get are different from other countries. When the week begins, so do the citizens of America. Each person endeavors to work hard before the weekend arrives. It is attributed to their behavior of resting during the weekends. These days are filled with plans ensuring that the weekends are well spent. They may include shopping in malls, watching a movie, going for a hike, visiting friends and relatives, having a barbeque with your new neighbours, or sitting at home and watching movies. My favorite was watching live …show more content…

It was usually from one side to the other. It further assisted to bring life to the game. At this point, there was nowhere else I would have chosen to be. The play they used was the key play. It caused the fans of the team to remove their keys before the onset of the play. They would then jiggle them. Michigan have this tradition during the key play. The fans around us were yelling as they jiggled the keys. Others just jiggled without any sound. I was not left behinds as my keys were out of my pocket in unison to supporting my team. At the break, we could only shout as we spoke to each other because of the noise in the stadium. The announcer also took time to announce how the other teams were fairing on in their matches. It included the teams that made it in the big ten. At times, they would announce the teams in the top twenty five. A friend shared with me that the tradition of the announcer began way back in the late fifties. The announcer would announce the score of the slippery game. The tradition from that time was incorporated in the Michigan’s experience. The reaction that the fans show to the slippery score shows their dedication to their team. They would boo if the score was low and cheer when the score was high. One would think that the team belonged to each one of the fans. I came to realize that the relationship between the two rivals enables them to play in the stadium for a number of

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