In the Newsela article “Colin Kaepernick has 49ers fans burning their Jerseys” Cindy Boren writes about the current issue in the NFL when Colin Kaepernick took a kneel and refused to stand during the national anthem. She continues to write about the effects that took place shortly after. One fan sent a video of him torching a jersey while the national anthem played, and another fan recording, setting fire to a Kaepernick jersey and scoffed at him telling him to “Get the F out of the country.” However, others think differently of the situation. Colin stated “I am not going to stand up and show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.” Chip Kelly, his coach, supported him protesting. A former teammate Anquan…
However, it did not seem a difficult task until last week, when he came up against Cleveland Browns. Tom Brady proved that his competitive juices are still on and they are not drying any time soon. He clearly does not have time for Garoppolo, he sees him as a mere four-game replacement.…
The Patriots have committed many scandals, but the most surprising is the Bill Belichick Spygate Scandal in 2007. This wrongdoing was so the Patriots could know what the other team was going to do by studying what they do beforehand.…
In Harrison's first season, he led the Colts in receiving. Infante would go on to lead the Colts to an identical 9-7 record in 1996 and another playoff appearance and another game against the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first round.[22] However, this time the Steelers crushed the Colts to the tune of 14-42.[22] Team owner Robert Irsay would pass away in January, leaving the team to his son, Jim Irsay. The young Irsay's first year at the helm would not be easy, as the team posted a miserable 3-13 record in…
Andrew Luck is an American quarterback for the National Football League. Currently he is the QB for the Indianapolis Colts. He attended college at Stanford University where he played football. He was selected first overall in the 2012 NFL draft. He was born in Washington DC but spent a lot of time in London where he picked up his love for soccer.…
Tom Brady is the current starting quarterback for the New England Patriots. He was drafted to New England in the year 2000, the same year Bill Belichick came to coach the Patriots. Since then, Brady has won 5 super bowls, which is the most ever won by any quarterback (“Tom Brady” ).…
Once he was finished with high school he earned a scholarship from Southern Mississippi which was the only scholarship offered to him. During his freshman year he started the season as a seventh string quarterback. Favre looked to take over the starting position in the first half of the third game. Although suffering a hangover he led the team to a comeback win. In his third season with the Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles Favre upset the 6th ranked Florida State Seminoles. Brett Favre threw the game winning pass with just 23 seconds left as he put up a six and a half minute drive. Just before Brett Favre’s senior year start he had one of the scariest things happen in his life. Brett Favre lost control of his car going around a turn near his house. His car flipped three times and finally stopped resting on a tree. One of Brett’s brothers busted the window out and was taken to a hospital on an ambulance. On the ride to the hospital Favre just kept asking his mom if he will ever be able to play football again. Favre had to get emergency surgery and the doctors removed thirty inches of his intestines. Favre then hosted a comeback win over the Alabama Rolling Tide. After the game Alabama Head coach Gene Stallings said “You can call it a miracle or a legend or whatever you want. I just know on that day Brett Favre was larger than life.” At the end of Favre’s career at Southern Mississippi he holds a bunch of records and earned a…
Aaron Rodgers is one of the best Quarterbacks in the NFL right now. He plays for the Green Bay Packers, but before then, he had already set several passing records in college football for California. He was a first round pick for Green Bay in 2005, but he didn’t get much play time till 2008. He spent these first years of his NFL career watching another one of the NFL’s greatest Quarterbacks, Brett Favre. Finally, after three years, Aaron Rodgers took his seat as the starting Quarterback for the Green Bay Packers and earned them a Super Bowl victory during the 2010 NFL season. He won the Super Bowl MVP. He was the Associated Press Athlete of the Year in 2011, and voted by the Associated Press in 2011 and 2014 for league MVP. Three…
Would you rather be a Peyton Manning fan and love the broncos or be a fan of the Indianapolis Colts who own a multi- million dollar stadium in downtown Indy. Most bronco fans where colts fan but changed to the broncos when they got Peyton Manning. Once again, the slight advantage goes to the Broncos. Quarterbacks Peyton Manning and Andrew Luck have remarkably similar statistics, but Manning has been better defended.In the defensive statistics, the two teams are very close but the Broncos have the edge in this category too.Here's what linebacker Von Miller had to say about the Broncos' pass rush in the upcoming playoff game:"That is every week. You want to affect the quarterback. You just don’t want to have it seven on seven. We have great cornerbacks—probably…
Jets & Giants Meet in the Battle for New York The New York Giants and New York Jets vie for the Snoopy Bowl title — the game that pits the New York and New Jersey professional football teams against each other in preseason football for bragging rights for the rest of the year in Gotham. Since the rivalry started in 1969, the Jets the Jets lead their preseason series with the Giants, 24-20-1. In the 2013 contest, the Jets beat the Giants in overtime, 24-21.…
Adam vinatieri didn’t resign with the Patriots after the 2005 season was over. Allowing him to become a free agent and decide where he wanted to play. He wanted to play in a dome or warm climate. So when the colts called him it was a perfect spot he was quoted saying “if indy is interest let's get this done.” He signed a five year deal to play for the colts. They went on to play in two super bowls winning one of them.…
The New England Patriots are one of the teams that many says have two potent QB in the league today, Tom Brady and Jimmy Garoppolo. Brady is hailed to be the greatest quarterback of all time by many analyst and experts. Having won 4 Super Bowl championship, 3 Super Bowl MVP, and 2 NFL MVP, there's no doubt that Brady will be a Hall of Famer one day.…
As a man Brady was a symbolic figure of the…
John Madden once said, “Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can... On third down and short yardage, the Raiders don't jump offside. That's discipline - not a coat and tie, not a clean shave.” John Madden was a football player in the NFL. He was drafted in 1958, by the Philadelphia Eagles, but an injury in his first season ended his career. Later he became the Oakland Raiders Linebackers Coach. After two seasons, he was selected to be the head coach of the Oakland Raiders in 1969. Madden began broadcasting after retiring from coaching in 1979. He broadcast for Fox and won 16 Emmy Awards. He was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in 2006. In 1988, John Madden released his first video game called “Madden NFL”. John Madden has been…
The video games industry faces an entirely new rivalry situation. After 11 years of leadership, Sony has nearly lost its strong positions on the market, which gives the other two players – Microsoft and Nintendo - the chance to compete for the leadership. While the goal of Nintendo is to stay in the industry, Sony and Microsoft aim to strengthen their positions on the home entertainment market, which is constantly growing. The key factors, the companies need to consider in order to gain a competitive advantage, are good marketing and well developed distribution, as well as providing a huge range of games with recognizable characters. As the market segmentation increases, it is of crucial importance to put an emphasis upon the new target groups and reqruit as many new players as possible. However, there are also a lot of factors outside and inside the industry, which play a major role and have to be considered in order to become a better idea of the state of the industry, and to estimate its profitability and tendency of growing.…