...Sports Fans Sports fans are a definitely a different breed of people. When their team or teams are playing their mentality is they better win this game and if they lose its then end of the world and puts a lot of the people in bad moods. This happens on the daily basis. Sports fans thrive for the excitement of the games. The excitement of the games and the atmosphere of the stadium bring them in to a whole different world. The fans that take it the most seriously are definitely soccer, baseball, hockey and football fans the most. The die-hard fans care about every game that is played by their team. Most of the time they will take the hard fought loss as if they are part of the team. People are crazy about sports, they’re die-hard fanatics, which sometimes care more about sports then their actual life. The biggest sports fans would have to be football; they go all out for their team. People plan their day around the game by getting to the field to barbeque and tailgate before the game. Most of the time it will be two to three hours before the game. Even some times people will just get to the stadium to tailgate and be in the atmosphere of everyone else and not go into the game because they don’t have tickets. Football fans are crazy they will throw parties in the parking lot before and after the games. They also have fans that paint their bodies and stand out in the freezing cold when normal people would be bulled up in cloths. Football Fans are crazy but that is just the...
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...Fan Bases Fans are important for motivating their team and making it hard for opponents to play well, whether they are bandwagon fans, completely berserk, or almost non-existent. Loud, lively fans motivate their players to play better and make it a disadvantage for the opponents to play them. The Cameron Crazies of Duke Basketball are some of the most dedicated fans in basketball. For rivalry games, over a thousand Cameron Crazies camp for three months in Krzyzewskiville, or the makeshift city the fans make outside Cameron Indoor Stadium, just to get a spot for the game. They go to every game prepared with chants and have even made cheerleaders of the opposing team cry. Some television networks had to turn off the sound temporarily during the game because of the chants. Next, bandwagon fans only root for their favorite team when they are on a winning streak or have won a championship. After winning a NBA Championship in 2012, the Miami Heat was notorious for having the most bandwagon fans. It was especially obvious when fans walked out of Game Six in the 2013 NBA Finals a few minutes early and missed watching the Heat comeback for the win. With the 2013 NBA Championship win, they have the most bandwagon fans in basketball. Finally, some fans almost never attend any games. The Eastern Michigan Eagles have the lowest attendance in college football with the average of a sixth of the stadium being filled each game. More people show up to watch big time programs like LSU practice...
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...Love n dove To kick of the section, chapter saga or whatever on love, I think it should be brought up that this isn’t me saying what I think of love is the be all and end all. I am well a wear there are people out their who can only use the cursed L word when regarding Pizza. But I believe Love is only as powerful, and as meaningful as the one who is claiming to possess this powerful emotion. To begin, I would like to start with my outlook on the topic. i have a very simple but at the same time complex outlook. It does make sence just bare with me. My saying is “ to truly love one must first loose” now unfortunately you’re just going to have to take my word for it that I did make that up and didn’t get it from anywhere, but if this gets to the internet im certain someone will find something to frame me as a liar. To you sir or madem I bid to you a fuck you and thanks for purchasing the book. I believe that one must loose something they believed to be “love” before they can find their true love. For some people, this is a small and easy process. But for others it can be painstakingly long, hard and stressful. Some don’t even make it through it at all and claim they will never love again. To those people I must insist to trust me in what I say and believe me what I say is true. However many people have different out looks and opinions on love. Some people love men, some love women, some believe love is nothing but a coping mechanism to deal with the every day strains of life...
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...which one could hear a pin drop, and all of a sudden, a large storm of screaming fans uproars and making its mark throughout the city. It was a a a football sunday in pittsburgh and Playoff football is like no other. It was my brother and I first playoff game game and we were not able to sleep due to the excitement of being in the same atmosphere as some of the greatest players in the game. Walking into the stadium with snow flurrying in the air, and the smell of all the greasy foods from the stands around, you know it was time for Steelers football. The game began and throughout it all you could see every fan in the stadium made sure be standing and hollering the whole game. The love of the game from my brother and I had us standing with everyone else there and screaming like we had just won the lottery, even though we could not feel our toes from the cold wind that was not going to stop us from the love of the game....
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...says Dr. Michaels, a researcher and producer of steroids. Saline Hornets football team has been smaller than every opponent they have played the last 10 years. While the team has been struggling for success in the playoffs, steroids are a better chance for them to win a state championship. The team has the skills and also has many great athletes as well as other schools do. The thing that other schools have is strength and faster people on their team. I have come up with the greatest solution that will make Saline football players and fans go crazy. The plan will come into effect starting now. By starting the taking of the steroids now, the players will be ready go by next august in their first game. The summer conditionings for football and all the lifting they do just don’t seem to pay off when season comes. During the summer they lift really hard, run a lot, and players work on their skills. When it comes game time in August, Saline thinks they are a step ahead of the other team on the field, but when the opponent steps on the field Saline becomes scared. The players become scared because they are really small compared to the opponents. Therefore, the other team has an advantage because they are a lot stronger. Steroids are the answer for the Saline football program. The program will do a fundraising event in which the team will earn a lot of money that will pay for all the steroids. Every Saline football player in the high school will start to take these steroids. Every player...
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...Connor Wilson Harris ENG101 March 15, 2015 Is NFL better than the rest? Both college and NFL football share many similarities. Simultaneously, the two leagues also have a different set of rules, expectations and requirements from one another. Although the two opinions will never come to an agreement on which league is better, pointing out the flaws in each may help level the playing field. The NFL have bigger, faster and more experienced players compared to the best college teams in the nation. While college fans might say their league has the most love for the game. Attending a college football game is an experience you’ll never forget. The life of the game is in this big stadium, the alumni sitting next to you in the same seat that’s been...
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...Everyone has a place they love to be. Mine so happens to be Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Tuscaloosa is also called t-town which means title town. Tuscaloosa is called t-town because of the sixteen national championships the football team has won. Tuscaloosa is my favorite place to visit. Some reasons it is my favorite are the University of Alabama is there, everyone is friendly, and the weather is amazing. First and foremost, Tuscaloosa is home to the University of Alabama. The University is one of the many reasons I love it. Alabama is where I hope to go to college. The campus is absolutely beautiful and is really massive. The college has more people attending it than my hometown has living in it. Also, football in Tuscaloosa is super important...
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...game. Every great play of this game would be remembered on this day, if we could just win this game. There would be talk about when we crushed the Ole Miss defense and took back the trophy to where it rightfully belonged. As a super fan...
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...It’s the 21st of November and you are at the home stadium of Real Madrid for the el clasico. Fans cheer and sing the club anthem in this sense of pride and commitment to their respective teams. You begin to feel this surge of patriotism and worth of your very existence at this moment; what could possibly go wrong? A rampage of opposing fans? Projected Molotov cocktails? A potential black-eye? As crazy as it may sound, those were the potential outcomes of what was usually expected during the 1950s at a casual game of football, not by the fans, but by the infamous football hooligans, who are by far and large known as, ‘overzealous supporters’ (Wikipedia). The reasons for such shocking trial of events were mainly due to racism, sense of Identity with the team and, as petty as this may sound; issues with ticketing. Racism, being the ugly mark of human society, is still prevalent in this modern age. It doesn’t necessarily have to involve an occasional Rosa being forced to the back of the bus; but more of verbal slurs which lead to public display of violence. On the 12th of October, 2015, The Notorious fans of Israel’s Beitar Jerusalem football club are well known for shouting anti-arab slogans and throwing stones at Palastanian fans. Although there have been laws implemented to protect Palestanian fans and Arab players, atleast 25 Palestenian had been killed by the Israeli forces. As mentioned earlier, verbal offence towards a specific ethnicity especially when clubs are involved...
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...The Direction of Sports As a sports fan I am concerned about the directions sports have taken. Sports in general have been headed in the wrong direction for some time now. They still have a lot of time to change. They need to act quickly though if they want to solve the problem. Every major sport seems to have a problem. Baseball had their huge problem with steroids, basketball has a reputation of its players being thugs, but football seems to have no major problem. Many of these problems have not only affected the leagues, they have affected the youth all across America. Like the problems the solutions are very diverse. I love all sports, and I would hate to see them become disgraced. Baseball which is my favorite sport has had the most trouble in the past couple of years. Their decline started with the steroid scandal involving Barry Bonds. When a player that big in the game is going after a cherished home run record and there are scandals surrounding it, there is going to be some turmoil. It wasn’t just Barry Bonds fault and the people involved in the scandal, it was also baseball officials fault for not doing anything when they knew about the things going on in baseball. They turned their back to the problem because at the time baseball was doing well and they didn’t want to disrupt that. Baseball was forced to act because of the scandal. They put in a steroid policy that was laughable compared to the steroid policy of the Olympics. Baseball would like...
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...Most of professional football players or children who play football are in the high risk of having concussions. The question is what is a concussion? There are a lot of researches and true stories about football players that are connected to concussion and I am sure that you will be surprised about our popular sport. “A concussion is a type of traumatic brain injury, or TBI, caused by a bump, blow, or jolt to the head that can change the way your brain normally works” (Hearens 94). The word concussion regularly connected to boxing that the players get many hits on faces and heads. However, the first concussion case in football was found by Dr. Bennet Omalu who discovered the truth about Mike Webster’s death. The story that the NFL didn’t want to admit. If you are a...
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...I attended the UCLA vs. Colorado football game on November 2, 2013 at the Rose Bowl. The UCLA Bruins are 6-2 overall and were expected to beat the Buffaloes by 24 points. Sponsors of the Rose Bowl and all events are: Honda, Sparkletts, myLowe’s, Rockstar energy drink, Vivid Seats, Fly Bur, Toro, Passion Growers, Farmer John, Coors Light, Coca-Cola, inside ucla with Jack Wang, Bank of the West, and Fiji water. Sponsors of the UCLA football team include Muscle Milk, Lowe’s, and NeuLion. I selected this particular event because I would much rather go to an athletic event than a social event or anything else. I am a sports fan in general and this was the first game I was able to attend this year. I have had a Den pass, student season pass, every year and it is always a fun experience to go to games. Once I got into the Rose Bowl stadium it was easy to identify UCLA fans in a sea of blue across the stadium and a small section of Colorado fans. There were a wide range of fans, students, alumni, and families, there to watch the game. I sat near the back in the student section, which is always fun because we do all the chants and there is just a lot of energy all around. At one point in the second half, the wave started going around the stadium. It was fun at first because the wave went all the way around five times, but it got crazy after awhile. I lost count, but it must have went around at least twelve times before it died out. That was my first time seeing the wave last so long...
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... Benefit | Old-fashioned | Bring football back to its roots. | Website affirmed | %100 competitive advantage, hardcore football fans haven’t seen before. | XFL would recruit players from the NFL’s golden age | To serve as coaches and league officials in support of this vision. | Cutting-edge marketing and production value | Transform football broadcasting by cresting “reality show arguably greatest sport on TV. | Unique focus on fans | Audience oriented league | Less expensive tickets | More fan support from families and lower-income individuals. | Cheerleader platforms and announcer booths would also be located directly in the stands. | Synergy between live audience and more added visuals for viewers at home could enjoy. | League’s freedom from the taunting of wealthy owners. | Owners will not disrupt the progress of the league because it is centrally controlled | 2. The XFL was positioned to be a league returning to the origin of football, providing a “gutsee” return to the golden age of football before it became over regulated and restricted with rules. They promised altered game rules along with increased physical violence amongst players during game time. Ideas surrounding the league were merged after inception, promising cutting edge marketing and production values. Intending they wanted to “transform football broadcasting” by creating reality TV show elements. The fans were placed at the center of attention with the game...
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...Introduction Ever since the NFL was created in 1920, many people have debated whether college football is better than pro football, or vice versa ("Birth"). The two great games have been played for so long and have brought a lot of entertainment to people all around the world. Many people would say that football is the best and most American sport. Although, there are two different types of football lovers, those who love college, and those who favor pro. After research was done, multiple sources had good reasons to make one believe that college football overrules pro football. The two games have a lot of history. The first official "football" game was in 1869, between two colleges, Princeton University played Rutgers University in a classic...
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...Although fantasy football is huge these days and everyone seems to play it, there are some that don't know what fantasy football is all about. And those are the people that think fantasy football people are geeks or Star Wars fans or even Harry Potter fanatics. Some of that may hold true for some fantasy football players, but most are just average Joes. There are even a lot of professional athletes, celebrities and politicians that enjoy fantasy football. Fantasy football is a growing hobby or game - whatever you want to call it - that is catching the nation by storm. Millions and millions of people participate in fantasy football every year. So for those of you that don't know about the game, below is a brief explanation. Most of the people that play fantasy football are NFL fans. They enjoy watching football and playing fantasy football gets them involved in more games to watch on the weekends. If you don't like the NFL, you likely won't like to play fantasy football. A fantasy football league normally consists of 12 teams (some are less or more). Before the NFL season starts, fantasy teams draft their own team, consisting of NFL players. A draft order is set by the league and all owners draft until their roster is filled. A new trend for fantasy leagues is auction style, though. This is where teams bid on players and every team has a set dollar amount they can spend during the auction. Instead of picking your players in a draft, you bid on them until your roster is...
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