College football on television

“Brian’s Song” was the most iconic made-for-TV movie. ABC strategically placed its premier, utilizing the concept of “flow” to cross-over their normal, stereotypical male Monday Night Football audience, towards the broad audience they were striving for their prime-time football games. Doing this allowed Monday Night Football to become a “consensual space”, thanks to the high viewing rates of the connecting film. These ideas worked with the themes of the movie to construct a positive vision…

The story of the National Football League is the greatest success story in the history of American sports.(American Football and Its Heritage) Baseball may always be called "the national pastime," but in recent decades pro football has become a national obsession. (American Football and Its Heritage) Pro football is now by far the most popular sport in America, its tens of millions of impassioned fans turning the NFL into a rapidly growing multibillion-dollar business that is now known as,…

its new show they first realized they needed a name, and most importantly a host. NBC has decided to select Tony Dungy as their new host for their new sports talk show that focuses on the ins and outs of sports primarily focusing on basketball and football. The show will strive to be much like Real Sports and 60 minutes which have HBO and Showtime have found great success in. The reason for selecting Tony Dungy as the new host for the show is because he is a Super Bowl- winning head coach. Dungy…

States today, is football. The National Football League games are watched by millions of people during the football season. A football player mainly plays on one of three subsets of the team. The subsets of a football team are the offense, the defense, and the special teams. Although all of these subsets are important to a team, there are differences. The offense is the part of the team who has the ball at any given point in the game. Most of the points scored in football are scored by the…

Chase Cummings ET Essay Thoreau and Emerson, a group of transcendentalist who brought great ideals with them, through a time of struggle in the mid 1800’s. The NFL, or National Football League, where stars can shine doing what they love for millions of fans. Just as Emerson and Thoreau present their ideas in Civil Disobedience, the players in the NFL still emulate their ideas, maybe not all of the ideals, but they all feel they consist of a “majority of one.” A first example of an NFL player…

Saban, Alabama’s head football coach, is one of the highest paid coaches throughout all football programs in the nation at nearly four million a year (Yost). Now, where is this money coming from to pay all the coaches for the different sports? For example, Alabama has a $70 million athletic budget that goes towards paying all the coaches for their sports, and other necessary things (Yost). Now, how will these programs be able to pay their coaches on top of paying their athletes? Well, the answer…

crazy father. Another manic Sunday at Cowboy Stadium. There are three different kinds of fans who enjoy American football: the crazed football fans, the bandwagon fans, and the diehard fans. Crazed football fans are some of the most fun to see.These people paint, dress up, or put glitter on there there bodys in team colors to show their crazy and ridiculous support for their favorite football…

Sports is a big aspect of high school life, especially the sport of football. The films The Blind Side, Remember the Titans, and Friday Night Lights, all revolve around the sport of football and how it manages to change the lives of the athletes. Among these films, the main themes I will focus on will be on the impact of being in a team and the influence an authority figure has on the athletes’ lives. I will begin with examining the theme of being a part of a sports team and how much growth it…

Americans as a society have developed a habit or a tradition of idolizing sporting events. More specifically, The Super Bowl. One part that Americans look forward to, the commercials. Some might not believe that these commercials impact our lives, but they give us a look into how others perceive each other. When companies use celebrities in their commercials, they try to attract those who idolize these people and their lifestyle. Other companies play on the viewers' humor to try to sell their…

kept up with the statistics through the newspaper's sports section and recorded the statistics by hand. By the early 1980s fantasy baseball was gaining popularity. Tom Kane Jr. and Cliff Charpentier wrote the “1984 Fantasy Football Digest” explaining the rules of fantasy football in details. In 2009, Fanduel was created and instead of people having a full season commitment they only have to play the fantasy sports for a day or a week. In, 2012, DraftKings…