cultural impact of sports

   

     Society and culture go through many changes throughout our lives. Many people are brought together and separated, but one thing that never changes is the worlds love for sports. Sports are famous for the way they bring all of the worlds people together into one community. Whether it be Football, Soccer, Hockey, Basketball, Baseball (etc.) No matter what the sport, no matter what the country, no matter what the ethnicity, EVERYONE loves to watch some kind of sport. This country is full of love and passion for sports, and I have always found it true to be able to count on sports as the world wide connectors, Sports are the reason for many friendships, many relationships, and many AMAZING memories with loved ones.
     I moved to 9 different places. This means that I have gone to 9  different schools, lived in 0 different neighborhoods, been on 9 different soccer teams, and had to make new friends 9 different times all within 16 years! Do you want to know how I continued to sucessfully make friends? SOCCER, that's how! Soccer has always helped me conintuously make friendships, and those friendships have lasted forever. It has had a HUGE impact on my life and continues to do so. Many different sports do the same things for millions of other people around the world. That is something that even people you may never meet will have in common with you, and if you don't think that's incredible than I don't know what is
     Strangers hugging strangers, crowds going wild, tailgaters sharing food. Those are all of the makings of a sports game. The love for the game pumps through everyones blood, causing them to get amped up. No one cares if the person they are talking to is a stranger because they have one thing in common and that's sports. All sports create a strong passion that is strong enough to break down cultrual barriers and bring everyone together. It's a force so powerful that even the people it workd it's magic on don't realize what is happening. It's a beautiful thing honestly. People loving people. Sports is one of the last thing on earth that keeps this world sane.
     So wether you play chess, are the star quarterback, or your favorite teams #1 fan, you are a very important part of society and it's beautiful. The world is full of some crazy, terrible things but sports is not and never will be one of them. So keep on wearin that facepaint, and continue to score the winning goal because you contribute to societies culture way more than you think!

Superbowl

    Friday, Jan. 30th, 2015 was the night I had been waiting for, for over 8 months. The feeling of stepping back onto the soccer field and playing my first game since surgery was the best feeling in the world. I was full of excitement and more than ready to play! The whistle blew, and the game began. It was an intense game that both my team and the opposing team fought long and hard for. In the beginning I couldn't help but be nervous about injuring my knee again but within 5 minutes i was playing as if i had never been injured. I was taking shots and making good plays along with the rest of my team. The worst part of the game came when the opposing team scored against us and we thought that we were going to lose. The whistle blew yet again, and we began. My team was passing and making incredible plays and then....GOAL!!! We scored and the crowd went wild! The rest of the game was a competitive and contained amazing plays and shots from both teams. The game proceeded to end in a tie, 1-1. It was a well played game and the feeling of getting back onto the field and playing with my team again. I certainly could not have been any happier that night. 
    Similar to my game, Sunday night was a real nail biting game. The Superbowl containing the New England Patriots Vs. the Seattle Seahawks. It ended with a close score of 28-24, with the Patriots taking home the win. Both teams fought long and hard to win this game. The players from both teams must have felt 100 times more happy than i was on Friday night. Both teams played a great game. The scored battled back and forth throughout the entire game! Knowing how I felt that night, the Patriots fans were definitely on the edge of their seats hoping for them to take home the win. Luckily they did, and everyone in my house along with many others celebrated the win! The New England Patriots won the Superbowl, and it was well deserved. 

The Patriots

    The New England Patriots made it to the superbowl!! Of course we are all extatic about the win! The situation with the entirley wrong accusation of the deflated footballs boggles my mind. The referees admitted to checking the footballs about 2 to 3 hours before the game. After the reffs checked the footballs it was also proven that no one else touched the balls other than to bring them to the field. This brings the question of ¨How could they have been deflated?¨ to mind. That's right, they couldn't have!
    Another contributing factor to the solution is that the referees also admitted to never weighing the footballs during the ball check. This only pushes me and the public futher towards believing that everything reported about the footballs is not true. The New England Patriots is a very talented team that desereved every single win. What the team was accused of is something that should have never been brought up to begin with. It created a problem that was not there and arroused many fans for no reason. I will always be a fan of The Patriots as well as the rest of New England.

Trudeau's Game Winner

    The general point made by the sun chronicle in the article, "Trudeau's hot hand lifts Norton", is that Norton's star player, Bobby Trudeau, made an assist and the game winning goal. Along with extraordinary plays by other team mates against Durfee. This article states, "Bobby Trudeau had a goal and an assist to help the Norton High ice hockey team edge past non-league Durfee Thursday night, 3-2 the final at Driscoll Arena". In this article, The Sun Chronicle is attempting to show the incredible talent that is held by the Norton Lancers hockey team. This article is appealing due to the simple fact that it proves how important practice and team work truly is. 
    I believe that the Norton Hockey team is a good team that has great potential. The players have good skills. This was shown during the game by Bobby Trudae and a few other players. Many good plays and shots were made by the players. They truly deserved this win and I can not wait to see there progress through every game. This is deffinatly a team to watch. Many more great wins are expected from these boys and many incredable goals are waiting to be seen from Bobby Trudeau!