{"id":12258,"date":"2015-10-11T14:28:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T19:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=12258"},"modified":"2017-07-25T13:15:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T18:15:56","slug":"your-voice-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2015\/10\/11\/your-voice-6\/","title":{"rendered":"YOUR VOICE:"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you follow NFL or college football, why or why not?<\/strong>
\nWho is your team if you have one, and why that team?<\/strong>
\nWhat is your opinion about the glamorization of <\/strong>
\nAmerican football in the U.S?<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Brittney Cone,
\nCommunication Major<\/p>\n

\"DSC05252<\/a>\u201cNo I do not, really I\u2019m not into sports too much. I\u2019m really more like getting involved in the community rather than in sports. If there was a situation, if there came a time for me to participate or go watch peewee [football], then I would go if it\u2019s for a good cause or if it\u2019s going to support little kids\u2014because in this day and age, society is just getting worse and worse\u2014so it seems that being active is good. . . I\u2019ll support it. . . I feel like there\u2019s a lot of hidden aspects to [the NFL], hidden parts\u2014which every organization or club probably has\u2014but I feel like for football players, it\u2019s more hidden, especially since most NFL players here recently have been [abusive]. . . I feel like they\u2019re very aggressive, very abusive, so I don\u2019t really see them doing really any good at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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2. Marshall Johnson,
\nElectrical Engineering Technology Major<\/p>\n

\"2ndimage\"<\/a>\u201cYes, NFL mostly. I\u2019m a Cleveland Browns fan. Die-hard from the very first day. I was born into it and I\u2019ll never leave. I like football mainly because I played football when I was younger in high school and everything. . . but [I like it] because if you\u2019ve ever watched a Cleveland browns football game\u2014they\u2019re called the cardiac kids\u2014they will literally, in the last three minutes of every game, give you a heart attack, whether or not they\u2019re going to win or lose. It\u2019s what games are all about, the last three minutes, that\u2019s why. . . it\u2019s happening with every sport, but glamorization could be taken a couple of different ways, but I do not agree with the fact that a lot of them can get away with murder, and I mean literally murder. They just pay outright what the next guy can\u2019t afford, he has to go to prison but you don\u2019t, because you make so many millions of dollars. . . it\u2019s allowed to happen. I don\u2019t see a problem with [glamorization]. . . Go Cleveland!\u201d<\/p>\n

3. Shelby Pruitt,
\nMusic Education Major<\/p>\n

\"DSC05254<\/a>\u201cI watch the Steelers, kind of sometimes. They\u2019re my team. I recently have acquired a new family to live with, so I don\u2019t live with my family anymore, but I live with my friend, and his whole family is really big into the Steelers, so I\u2019ve kind of had to adjust to that, which has been fun. It\u2019s almost like a religion in that household. I do [like that]. It\u2019s a nice change, cause my family didn\u2019t really do anything together, so it\u2019s nice to have like sit down every Sunday, eat dinner, watch the game, kind of thing. . . if that\u2019s what you wanna do, I guess, I don\u2019t get that excited, but I do know that everybody else in my house does get very excited. Like the last game, Ben Roth ended up getting hurt, so now his mcl\u2019s torn and he\u2019s going to be out for 4-6 weeks, which was upsetting for me, but everybody else took it a lot worse. I guess it\u2019s just like a personal thing, I don\u2019t really get that excited, but other people do.\u201d<\/p>\n

4. Jacob Hardman,
\nUndecided Major<\/p>\n

\"DSC05255<\/a>\u201cI do not. I don\u2019t know the rules of football. I\u2019ve never really been interested in football. I come from a soccer town, mainly. . . I think it\u2019s kind of interesting since it\u2019s a sport pretty much just here, it\u2019s a little bit abroad, I\u2019ve seen some other football teams in other countries, but it\u2019s mostly here, in the other countries they have rugby and everything. But the glamorization of it? I think it\u2019s mostly just a sport that\u2019s giving an excuse to hit other people, and I don\u2019t really see the point of it, I think it\u2019s kind of brutal and honestly bad. Like yeah there are a lot of injuries with it, concussions and everything, obviously you can get that from any contact sport, like from soccer that happens, but when you really do actually tackle people to the ground just to actually play the game, I think it\u2019s a little bad. I mean the glamorization, we really are just sort of, when we say that\u2019s a good thing and when we say and sort of that\u2019s something to look up to, and we see all the professional athletes on the major football teams, they are a lot of the time very brutal and violent people as well. Obviously I\u2019m not going to say all of them\u2014generalizations are bad and everything\u2014but a lot of the people on various teams have charges of violence, abuse, murder even, animal abuse, all these different things. And I don\u2019t know if it is because of the culture egging them on to be violent and distort, whether or not those are correlated or not. I disagree with it, I think it\u2019s bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

5. Thomas Puckett,
\nTheatre and Performance Major<\/p>\n

\"DSC05256<\/a>\u201cI do. For the n.f.l, it would be the Pittsburgh Steelers, and for the college football, it would be the Ohio State University. I\u2019ve been raised around those teams, like my father\u2019s always been a big Pittsburgh Steelers guy, he\u2019s always loved that team, and Ohio State because everyone I live here by is a Buckeye fan, so it\u2019s kind of upbringing. He\u2019s bounced off of different teams before, like he\u2019s watched the Raiders and he\u2019ll watch the Bengals here and there, but he\u2019s always stuck to watching the Steeler\u2019s play for some reason, he\u2019s always just enjoyed that team. . . as far as for the fans, and the people who watch it, I think it\u2019s just fine because it\u2019s just like any other spectator sport, because you look across the pond over in Europe, and people are so big with soccer (called football everywhere but the U.S) with and how glamorous that can be with chants and all that stuff. They do the exact same thing here with football in America, college or national league. For the players, it sometimes can get to their heads, because I do believe that if they get so much money, and I think they get paid maybe a little bit too much, but it kind of gets in their head that they can kind of do what they want and I don\u2019t think they should. But as far as total glamorization, I think it\u2019s just fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

6. Jonathan Kelly,
\nTheatre Major<\/p>\n

\"DSC05258<\/a>\u201cNot necessarily, but I do enjoy watching a game from time to time. I just never really cared for it, I don\u2019t know, it\u2019s not a passion like some people. . . I don\u2019t necessarily think glamorizing anything is a good decision, and I definitely don\u2019t believe in the glamorization of a sport, because I think a lot of people are like \u2018well, my patriotism is rooted in the team I root for,\u2019 and it shouldn\u2019t be necessarily, you should be an American first and foremost, I believe, and not a Patriots fan, or a Bengals fan, or you know, I just don\u2019t like it, I just disagree with it. I enjoy watching sports in general but I don\u2019t live to watch sports and I don\u2019t live for sports. . . I also feel that as human beings, we should keep in mind that we don\u2019t want to let it get out of hand. . . honestly, right now, football isn\u2019t a big concern for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maggie Stacey
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