...Move over Baseball, Football is America’s New National Pastime Abstract The argument over which sport actually ranks as America’s national pastime is as enduring and intense as American sports themselves. Each and every week millions of Americans tune in to watch their favorite sports. Over the years baseball has traditionally been known as the national pastime among all sports, but the rich tradition and history behind baseball is almost certainly being slowly replaced by the glamour of football season. Although baseball is still referred to as America’s national pastime, football is by far the most popular sport in this country today. This can be attributed to many factors including a superior television product, more controlled violence, and legalized gambling with fantasy football. Keywords: national, pastime, football, baseball, sports, television, violence, gambling Move over Baseball, Football is America’s New National Pastime Each and every week millions of Americans tune in to watch their favorite sports. Basketball, baseball, football, golf, soccer, and racing all have a place and a market with the sports fans in America. Over the years baseball has traditionally been known as the national pastime among all sports, but the rich tradition and history behind baseball is being slowly replaced by the glamour of football season. Over the past two decades, baseball has been left behind while football has become America’s new national pastime (Gramling, 2010...
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...The New York Yankees, Not An “Evil” Empire For a very long time, the New York Yankees have had controversy surrounding them. The Yankees could arguably be the best team in major league baseball history, but many people would rather refer to them as the “Evil Empire”. The Yankees empire started in 1903 with the name New York Highlanders. The name was changed to the New York Yankees in 1913 and in 1920 the Yankees made the historic deal with the Red Sox and brought Babe Ruth to New York. This trade marked the start of the Yankee’s winning empire. They went on to win championship after championship. George Steinbrenner bought the Yankees in 1973 and continued to lead them into the depths of greatness. With the help of managers Joe Torre and Joe Girardi, the Yankees appeared in every playoff from 1995 to 2010, except for 2008, and also won five world championships during that time (“Yankees”). Whether you love or hate them, their winning record is undeniable. My skeptical audience is baseball fans. Many baseball fans dislike the Yankees with a passion. The problem most people have with the Yankees is the way they spend their money, or in other words how they “buy championships”. If the Yankees are willing to pay big money, it is much harder for smaller, less-profitable teams to compete for baseball talents. Which means fans must watch their hometown teams continue to diminish, while bandwagon fans support and spend money on the Yankees. While many baseball fans hate the Yankees...
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...matter how safe the NFL will get you can take the safety out of head banging hits. The NFL’s viewing audience has grown drastically over the past years with more females being involved in the game and setting new records every year the super bowl comes on (100 million viewers last SB). Everyone knows the NFL is America’s favorite sport with a recent poll stating that 35% of Americans voting the NFL as the favorite and MLB 14% as the second favorite ("Harris Poll -- NFL still most popular; MLB 2nd," n.d.). What makes the NFL so special is the its role in society; tailgating, trash talking,...
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...during that specific time or place. Since the dawn of this new era, the economy has relied on fast food, sports, and television as their primary source of entertainment. The three categories listed above have overlapping patterns suggesting individuals to purchase their product being mentally or physically. Food industry’s use artificial visual prop’s such as plastic or wax items to help portray luscious tasting food to help entice a hunger experience. Driving by Arby’s a billboard picture shows five roast beef sandwiches for five dollars, leading individuals to believe this is an excellent value. On the other hand, Arby’s does not inform customers of the calorie intake, sodium, and other ingredients that are harmful to individuals’ health. Consequently, these additives tremendously increased over the years. Another example of a food artifact is McDonald’s golden arches. In most cities children in general recognize McDonald’s for their symbol of a golden arches. Sadly, this fast food establishment has been deemed un-healthy of all chain restaurants which has been proven to be a fact through medical research. I for one, after seeing the movie “Super Size” have refrained from being a regular customer do to these findings. Another area of how mass media affects the public is through sports. In the early 1900’s baseball was America’s sport of choice and now since the changes that were made in 1925, football has evolved into America’s favorite game. Stadiums that...
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...My persuasive essay is on the MLB ( Major League Baseball ) adding more teams to the playoffs. The reason I am writing my persuasive essay on this topic is because I am a baseball fan myself, and would like to get the message across to all of you on expanding the MLB playoffs. Over the past several decades, there has been four teams from each league to make the playoffs. The Detroit Tigers are my favorite team and they are often one of the team that gets barely eliminated from getting into the playoffs. They're often the fifth best team, but only four teams make it. There is another reason why I feel that the playoffs should expand to five, six, or eight teams as people often express their frustration over peaking teams facing early elimination. I always feel bad when I see those teams who had an amazing year but still don't make it because one other team was only one win better than them. Or even a team with a worse record makes it just because they were the division winners, but in a weak division. That is why I have chosen this as my essay topic. The way the MLB playoffs work can be complicated but I won't get in to that. What I will get in to is why there should be more teams that make the playoffs. There are many reasons why the postseason (playoffs) should be expanded but here are some of the most important. Income: According to TG Sports almost everyone involved in the MLB would earn more money. This would include the MLB, the owners, the players, and even the vendors...
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...Sharhonda Dillard November 5, 2010 Business 508 Dr. Durgin Assignment: 2 Amazon’s .com 1 Amazon.com ABSTRACT Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is an American-based multinational electronic commerce company. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, it is America's largest online retailer, with nearly three times the Internet sales revenue of the runner up, Staples, Inc., as of January 2010. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and launched it online in 1995 as Cadabra.com. It started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, and toys. Amazon has established separate websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, and China. It also provides international shipping to certain countries for some of its products. A 2009 survey found that Amazon was the UK's favorite music and video retailer, and third overall retailer. Amazon was founded in 1994, spurred by what Bezos called "regret minimization framework", his effort to fend off regret for not staking a claim in the Internet gold rush. Company lore says Bezos wrote the business plan while he and his wife drove from New York to Seattle, although that account appears to be apocryphal. (OPPAPERS.COM) The company began as an online bookstore; while the largest brick-and-mortar bookstores and mail-order catalogs for books might offer 200,000 titles, an online bookstore could offer more. Bezos...
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...The NFL in Europe: Will it make dollars, does it make sense? Table of Contents 1. Football in America: Playing on Its Home Turf 1.1 Football Surpasses Baseball as America’s Favorite Pastime 1.2 Football Generates Billions of Dollars for Owners and Players 1.3 The Economics of Football Goes Beyond the Playing Field 2. Football Goes Global 2.1 The Super Bowl Introduces Football to the Rest of the World 2.2 NFL Europe Provides a Testing Ground for NFL 2.3 English Crowds Flock to See NFL Visitors 2.4 Commissioner Wants to Take the League to England and Beyond 3. Looking to the Future: Is It the Right Move 3.1 New Legions of Fans Could Enhance Profits and the Sport’s Popularity 3.2 Why the Move Might Be Counterproductive 3.3 Why stop at London? 4. The NFL in Europe Is Imminent, But Is It the Correct Move? 4.1 Questions Still Remain about London’s Viability 4.2 Final Conclusion The NFL in Europe: Will it make dollars, does it make sense? 1. Football in America: Playing on Its Home Turf 1.1 Football Surpasses Baseball as America’s Favorite Pastime There was a time when baseball was the most popular sport in the United States. Football used to be an afterthought for most sports fans. In the first half of the 20th century, baseball was king and football was fighting for its survival. In fact, football was considered on the same level as professional basketball, boxing, golf and horse racing. That all started to change in the 1960s when professional...
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...Movies People say that baseball is America's favorite past time, but I guarantee you know more people who have been to a movie theater than have attended a professional baseball game. Not all movies make it to the silver screen, some go straight to DVD, while others gross hundreds of millions of dollars. People go to the movies for several reasons, perhaps a first date or just hanging out with friends, whatever the reason is, you will most certainly be entertained. Ironically the fantasy of movies has a mystical way of making us feel genuine emotions. Whether it's a comedy, action, or horror movie, for a couple of hours people can forget about their real lives and exist in a world of make believe and fantasy. Over the course of my movie going career, the three categories that make for a movie worth paying to see are comedies, action, and horror films. In recent years, the most popular type of movie in theaters is comedies. A good can cheer up even the grumpiest of grumps. The most noticeable trait of a hit comedy is when you hear people repeating the one-liners for many months later. “Alrighty then” from Ace Ventura Pet Detective, was repeatedly uttered at middle schools across America in the mid nineties. Comedies are also great at cutting through that first date tension, you won't have to worry about making her laugh and you have something to talk about during the awkward silence moments. Other examples of great comedies that performed well in theaters include...
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...continue to grow in popularity. In medieval Europe a bard provided music and entertainment going from town to town singing and telling stories and informing people of news from other towns. The rhyme schemes and lyrical content of medieval bards and country music are similar (Country Music and the Myth of the American West, n.d.). Bard lyrics and country music lyrics reflect culture and the society of the time. In the 18th century Europeans began to emigrate to the colonies or America. Many immigrants from Ireland and Scotland settled in the Appalachian region. Immigrants brought music and instruments like the fiddle to the area. The fiddle became the central instrument of country music from Appalachia adopting from the cultural use of the fiddle from the British. Early country music roots in the cultural traditions of the traveling show. In the middle 18th century American minstrel or medicinal shows traveled from town to town presenting musicians and other entertainment (Country Music and the Myth of the American West, n.d.). Country music during this time reflected the culturally themes Christianity, hard work, death, love, and everyday living. Country music roots originate in medieval Europe bard songs about daily life and struggle and reflected a...
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...inmates, Bimbi, was able to control much of the conversations due to his huge base of knowledge. For Malcolm X, uncovering his ancestor’s past and discovering the truth of his origins was one of the important pieces for bringing justice to the African American culture in America. For so long, he was led to believe that African American history could be summed up within a paragraph in a U.S history book. While many other people wrote that “Africa was the only continent that produced no history”, however, this only brought to light the truth of how the white man really was in history. For me, I was dismayed at first at how ignorant Americans can be to other cultures, yet I understood everything Malcolm X was saying when he described the white men as hypocrites....
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...Perception of the Athlete in Modern Society As with all the paper topic categories involving different sorts of bodies, culture’s perception of the sports body has evolved over time, but not as much as one would think. When the Athenians started the Olympics several millenniums ago their ideal athlete was well built and muscular (so much so that participants in the games at that time performed naked so the crowd could admire their appearance as much as their ability to run, jump, etc…) which is not very different from what we picture the ideal athlete as today. Webster’s dictionary defines athlete as “Any one trained to contend in exercises requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion” which is a very vague definition when you look at the variety of different types of athletes we have in the U.S. Does a thin, toned Olympic champion such as Michael Phelps really share similarities with an offensive lineman in the National Football League? Throughout this essay I will be commenting on the variation of athletes in modern society, the steroid controversy, and how the United States in particular has a skewed perception of what an athlete should be. A recent major example of one of the most popular sports figures going down the abyss of the steroid scandal, among other gossip, is New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez. Since A-Rod’s first season playing for Seattle he has been glorified as having the potential to be...
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...AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL CYCLE 20 PARTICIPANT APPLICATION Please read the preceding Eligibility Requirements before completing this application. The Eligibility Requirements contain important instructions regarding the videotape, photographs and other items, which must accompany any submitted participant application, as well as submission guidelines for your application package. And remember, above all else, you must BE HONEST! Any answer may be verified for accuracy. Don't answer a question hoping to give us the answer we "want" to hear. Section I: The Basics 1.) 2.) First Name ________________Middle Name_____________Last Name__________________ Have you ever formally or otherwise changed your name or used an alias or another name? If so, what other names and/or aliases have you used? AGE ______________ DATE OF BIRTH _______/______/_______ PLEASE NOTE: Applicants must be between the ages of 18 and 27 at the time of this application 3a. 4.) Male _____________ Female _____________ 3.) Height ______________& Weight ______________LBS (PLEASE NOTE: If you are a female, You must be AT OR ABOVE five feet and seven inches [5’7”] in height to be eligible; If you are a male, You must be AT OR ABOVE five feet and ten inches [5’10”] in height to be eligible although Producers reserve the right to make case-by-case exceptions. However, the Producers are looking for a variety of models, including plus size models.) 5.) 6.) Social Security # ______-_____-______ Driver’s License #...
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...When possible most Americans like Crime Scene Investigators (CSI) it has become a favorite past time on T.V. The actors tendency to seduce our minds. Later people say, “Wonder what was he thinking about?” .The criminal justice system is now considered a sexy career choice. The academic purpose of the paper will be to examine topics like; Justice, how you must interrelate with others, and how court systems differ . To give a definition to justice personally is the art of all things being equal for everyone. To speak of a word used so universally. Justice is a word with many meanings depending on who you are. According to Collins, a writer of an English Digital Dictionary, He believes it can be called, “ Righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness.” To go on and speak with others, there are even some definitions of what justice really is. My son is an inmate of the justice system. Do not why he use words like corrupt and bad attitudes. I am not sure of what happens as to why so many young men do not have any positive ways to describe what about justice. Ebony Magazine July,2014, talks about an article titled Injustice for all. They write,” New book reveals harsh penalties and racial inequities in America’s juvenille prison system burning down the house; The end of juvenille prisons give readers an unflinching look at America’s unbalanced juvenille system. In this exclusive excerpt, the author, White House...
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...They Call Them Heroes People often refer to other people as Heroes. But why, what have they done? What makes one father a Hero for going to work and another father doing the same job just a good guy? Why aren’t there more women recognized as Heroes? If the goal is to label all of your favorite people as Heroes then how do we label those who go above and beyond? These questions have cause long debates in certain military and civilian arenas. Growing up my father was never around. My mother had worked two some times three jobs to support us. Often-going weeks with out spending quality time as a family. Other kids my age would talk about how their dads were their Hero and how they could throw a football a hundred miles. My mother surely could not do this; she didn’t have the time or energy to learn how to throw that far. She was no Hero by definition but she was by mine. My plate was always full, my cloths and school supplies were always taken care of, and she kept a roof over our heads. It was Superbowl Sunday 2001; the guys had stayed up all night to watch the game in Germany. It was one of many sporting events that red-blooded Americans had to watch. It was treated like a holiday but with blood, sweat, and cheerleaders. As the game played on and the beer began to take effect someone yelled out “now that’s a real American Hero right there.” Quickly my eyes glanced at the TV to try and see what amazing feat had been accomplished. Only to see that a player had a few tackles...
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...Writing 121 Video Essay 13, March, 2014 Essay # 2– “Any Given Sunday” Football has always been one of America’s favorite past time sport, a sport that has been around for 145 years and a game that is a religion to some individuals. “No guts, No Glory!” I remember my high school couch always scream out into the stands and the team cheering that same chant into the battle field. Football is a very intense and dangerous sport that young men play to hold the glorious title of “Winner,” seizing the opportunity to show off all their incredible football skills. In the movie, “Any Given Sunday” there is a famous scene were Al Pacino the head couch, gives a common but important inspirational speech to get his team all riled up and ready for battle. Giving the opposing team a run for their money and fight for every last inch they need to get to be victorious in the game. In every great sports movie there is always that locker room scene that gets the team pumped up for the win or lose game, with inspirational heart pumping background music. Making you feel like you are right there in the locker room, living in the moment and thinking it’s all or nothing at that very instance. The head coach reaching into each individual player’s soul and heart giving them that push to leave everything on that field to give everything they have, like it was a life or death situation. How many times have you seen that famous locker room scene and how does it make you feel at that moment? When I saw...
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