Many people attend these Friday Night football games because they see it as a tradition. I was never quite able to understand this until after I graduated high school and had been attending the games every fall Friday night for four years as a part of the marching band. Now as a recent graduate of Cambria Heights, I have come to understand the meaning of these Friday night football games like everyone else does. These games are not just a time to come and see an entertaining football game or the marching band performance (although those are perfectly great reasons to go!), but it is a time to catch up with friends, both those who we see often and those who we do not see so much anymore. These Friday night games serve as a time where people …show more content…
At the Friday Night Football Games, you see several groups of people. First, there are the ones that I already discussed, which are the football fans and the band fans. Then, you have the group of moms who may or may not have kids on the team or in the band but are only interested in each other's company and getting to talk with each other. You also have the students. While some of them are there to watch the football game, you look around and see several students standing in groups not paying attention to the game, but instead eating popcorn, snapping selfies, and talking and laughing with each other. No matter what group you are a part of whenever you come to the football games and no matter what the reason is that you are at the game, it all comes down to one underlying reason, and that is because it is a tradition. A tradition that has been adopted many years before you began going to the games and will continue many years after you stop going with generations before and after you. No matter what time, the location, or the whether, pretty much the same people (give or take a few) will be at every game to carry on the tradition of these Friday night games and maintain a certain standard within the Cambria Heights
If one thing is certain, it’s that the state of Mississippi loves their football. Between the Ole Miss Rebels, the Mississippi State Bulldogs, the Southern Miss Golden Eagles, and multiple high school teams, there is plenty of football to be seen. Fridays and Saturdays are often the Sabbath to the football nuts that reside in Mississippi. Once the dreaded end of the season arrives, the conversation shifts towards how great people’s teams are going to be next year. On occasion, a person will rise from the plethora of meatheads and become a legend among their fellow Mississippi natives.
Broken bones, concussions, and even death occurred, while playing football. The mounting injuries caused a division between the college heads and students. The college heads hated it.
2 ranking on the list. The NFLPA Collegiate Bowl and East-West Shrine are scheduled for the same week, while the Senior Bowl is the following week.” (Brugler) He also goes on and mention about what it gives the players in return as well too stating “The NFLPA Collegiate game gives participants an in-depth introduction to their future union. The NFL Players Association, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2016, is the primary resource for players for information on the business of football and how to succeed in the NFL and in their post-football careers.”
“BLUE – WHITE –BLUE – WHITE,” shouts from the stands at the most awaited game of the year, the homecoming game. With support filling the stands from students, parents and fans alike the 2013 Rattler football team takes the field. Although a big part of the traditional homecoming game, football is not the entire reason we gathered this year in “The Snake Pit.” One of the utmost exciting moments of the year approached as halftime began, crowning of the homecoming queen.
Most avid fans go to every game they can and even travel with the team to see them play in other cities all across the United States. In
The Dolgeville Blue Devils are a perennial small school football powerhouse in New York. If you drive through town on a Saturday during the fall when there is a home football game it would appear to look like a ghost town in one of those old western movies. But if you decided to take a stroll to the school you would find a huge line of cars up the school hill and people parked on the lawn because the parking lots are packed full. The football field is located on the back side of the school in the outfield of the baseball field. The field is also at the base of a small hill which serves as seating for the majority of spectators.
Bloody, bruised, and battered, Falls Church’s football team fought on in the fourth quarter. A football flew through the air as players crashed into one another sprinting to the ball, except I wasn’t on the field, nor was I on the sideline. I was a freshman watching our varsity footall team lose 0 to 48 on homecoming night, a familiar sight to many Falls Church students for the past 40 years. Those past 40 years are what has made Falls Church football the laughing stock of our conference, and since our school was one of the smallest high schools in the area, we never had the speed, size, or numbers to compete with other football teams. Our own school saw the team as a joke, 0-10 was a common season record, and being a Falls Church football
There were a lot of people in attendance at this game with which I spoke who said that they come to the games, whether they be home or away, to see and hear the Highlander Marching Band perform both pep tunes and their halftime performance. While many of these people that I talked to were friends and relatives of the band members, there were a few who really had no affiliation with the band whatsoever. I took the time to speak with these people who were there for the band, and relatives answered with things like "My son plays trumpet and has a solo during halftime!" or "My daughter is a senior, and I want to see her perform as many times as I can this year!". However, those who really did not have affiliation with the band gave me some more
Those performances are socially constructed and vary based on the context and audience. Furthermore, fan identity interacts in interesting and important ways with other identities such as gender, race, sexual orientation, socio-economic class, and nationality” (Osborne & Coombs 677). My personal identity definitely has an impact on my performance and experience as a Browns fan. Firstly, I grew up in a middle class home with two parents who were both Browns fans.
As well as, the fact that you guys are a Christian-based university. When I went to the Patriot Preview, this past year, the very first thing that we did as a group was worship in the chapel. It set the mood for the whole day. As we pulled up the long road leading to the chapel, I remember thinking about how beautiful Dallas Baptist University’s campus was.
There are many reasons for the inactivity of our general populace. However, this essay will focus on how elite professional sport spectacles are a major factor in this increasing problematic trend. More specifically, how the culture around spectating these events and has encouraged inactivity. The video, “Discussion of Super Bowl as a Cultural and Media Spectacle” discusses how television has made the Super Bowl what it is today. In a sense it has formed its own culture and my essay will discuss how this culture shapes an inactive society.
They are concentrating on the amicable competitiveness that team rivalries allow, creating fun contests for viewers. Not only is football good for the viewer, it is highly effective as a way to teach the youth, adolescents and young adults are taught valuable lessons that can be applied to any profession, regardless of physicality. These lessons are in subjects of legitimate necessity, such as persistence, teamwork, and conscientiousness, all of which should not be denied the ability to reach
During every athlete's career there are points when the pressure can be stressful. Dealing with tough coaches, crazy parents, and not letting down your teammates down could be very difficult. As an athlete myself I have faced and dealt with all three of these, although I don't think I would be able to deal with the having the burden of carrying a town on my shoulders. As I have realized my teammates and I have always performed better knowing we don't have to deal with negative pressures surrounding us. In the novel Friday Night Lights the players and coaches are constantly faced with negative pressures making it hard for them to enjoy playing football and succeed.
Though I was born in New York, I 've lived in the same smallish town in Georgia for the entirety of my cogent memory. I know the street names and which back roads to take on traffic-filled days. Football is basically the center of life here in Grayson, and not going to home games results in being in shunned much akin to Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter. Consequently, football becomes a part of your life whether you want it to or not, and my Friday afternoons are generally spent putting together a DIY outfit for the theme of the game.
“Football is the most popular sport in America for at least 30 straight years,” (Rovell, 2014.) Football is not only important to this University, but it is also extremely important to this nation as a whole. My perspective of the question, “Should football be banned?” is this, the sport of football is one of those things that everyone looks forward to at the end of the week. I have lived my whole life on the game, Saturday afternoons weren’t for going to the mall, they were for watching the Longhorns do what the know.