America's Football Research Paper

Football: America's Favorite Sport

"INTERCEPTION!" shouts the announcer. The game is 20-14. Your team who is losing, just intercepted the ball at your 10 yard line. There is one minute left in the fourth quarter and each team has only one time out. You are the quarter back and now have to take the ball down-field to win the game. What's your call? Imagine being in that scenario. One minute to make a touchdown so you can go into overtime. You are on the other end of the field and if you make a touchdown to early then you have to make sure that your defense can stop their offense from scoring and ending the game. That is exciting! This game is not only great to play but it is also a great game to watch. In fact, this is America's
There is something about football that makes people love it. People might think some teams are sure to win against another team but you never know: sometimes the underdogs win. John Madden says that people ask him two questions. Where is his bus and who is going to win the super bowl. He answers by saying that he always knows where his bus is parked but he never know who is going to win the super bowl. Things change, players get better or worse, people get hurt, so you just have to battle it out on the field. That is why football is such a great game. Whoever wants it more usually
He inspired them. That is the strategy he used ( White 32). Joe Paterno talks about football as being a fun game (21). Joe Paterno was a outstanding coach in his time but there were also great players to grace the football field. Jim Thorpe or also known as Wa-Tho-Huck to his family was football's first superstar. Jim Thorpe was a secret weapon on the Carlisle team. Jim Thorpe was great in track and field and baseball so he was pretty athletic. In those days they players played both offense and defense and so did Thorpe. Jim Thorpe played on the Carlisle one day against the powerful Harvard team. Harvard thought they could beat this team easily but because of Jim Thorpe, Carlisle secret weapon, Harvard was wrong (Buckley 6). Football is a great game which involves many different aspects. The two aspects of football that were mentioned already are the intellectual and physical aspects. We also mentioned great players and great coaches but some teams even went to bring a spiritual aspect into the game. They bring in preachers as motivational speakers saying that God is the great coach and that he will win the game for them (Admur 16-18). I don't think that God gets in the game to the extent that he determines who wins. I think that God watches over them so that they don't always get seriously