How Has Football Impacted Our Society

The NFL and its owners have voted to shorten overtime from 15 minutes to 10. The league cited the change as a way to make the game safer for its players, as playing 75 minutes of football increases the risk of injuries. More time to play, more chances to get injured.

Abstract: Society is affected every day by many different kinds of sports.  These sports often govern society's way of life.  People all over the nation turn their TVs to sporting events, such as golf, during the weekends.   Scott Stossel states that "more than six million Americans enjoy watching golf on the weekends."  Parents  use sports as a teaching tool for their children.  Kids learn teamwork and discipline from team sports programs and  sports have also helped many students with their grades.  Kids who want to compete in school sports are taught to keep their grades up or they won't be able to play, but the greedy coaches and schools often look around grades to keep their "star athletes" in the games.  Adults have

Since the introduction of organized team sports into American culture, numerous sports have stepped into the limelight for certain periods of time but none have stuck around as long as football has. Just as with everything else in life, football has had it’s fair share of drawbacks since its invention in the mid-19th century. Despite the drawbacks and criticism football has faced, its role and influence on American culture between the 1890’s and 1930’s far outweigh the negative aspects of its past.

Today, transport and the financial power of football has completely transformed the game. Aeroplanes have allowed world cups; internationals and the champion’s league take place and technology wise, the new goal line technology and 3G pitches are being introduced. The media also acts as a super power in football with both sky and BT sports dominating the media world of football. This is all been possible due to the money in football and the business men involved. Billions of pounds are in football and this is what attracts the best football players to certain places in the world. Recently Gareth Bale was sold for £90 million which just shows how much money the top players can be sold for. The money has also allowed for some of the most impressive stadiums in the world such as the the Camp Nou which holds 100,000 people. Clearly football has changed drastically since the

Football, or as it is known in Canada the Gridiron, is considered an American passion. With the advent of the television, the sport has become the premier event; although, in comparison to other sports, like soccer and basketball it has less recreational participants. Nonetheless, football is part of the American culture and is the primary pass time during holiday and homecoming celebrations. Indeed, no other world sport possesses such parabolic baggage as does the sport. An aggressive, inflexible hierarchical, and one-gendered sport it is still appreciated by its supporters and detractors alike. However, with all the attention being placed on the fans of the game, sometimes it is easy to forget the impact it has on the players of the game. Consequently, this paper will highlight the impact of the sport on its players. It will do this by examining three fronts: the physical impact, psychological impact, and financial impact.

British football is definitely one of the most hit sports in the world. Besides, the highly competitive structures of football competitions in Britain, including promotions, inter club transfers and ownership transfers has allowed its fan base around the world to keep growing. Its charm has attracted not only football followers around the world, but also the local and international buyers. More importantly, English football clubs are still very good in making money out of the game. According to a report from Deloitte 's sports business group, English football clubs have earned combined revenue of 2.98 billion Euros (Choudhury, 2016). The popularity of British Football clubs is very large, as well as the whole football culture in the

All in all the author did a great job informing readers about football affects athletes. Also, the author serious and unbiased tone allowed me to form my own opinion, based on facts and not someone’s opinion. Furthermore, the author’s audience is football players and their parents, because they suffer the most. I chose to read this article because it seems interesting and I wanted to learn more about the topic. Overall, I believe that should not play contact football, because of the risk. However, I think they should play flag football, until they are able to their 18 and able make the own decisions.

ince the year of 1892, American football has brought joy to many people. All across America, people have fallen in love with this intense and violent sport. When the players make a amazing play or gets hit really hard, people cheer. Football is an amazing sport because it builds character. It also show the athletes how to be discipline. It’s a very fun sport to play because you can take stress out. I hope my son wants to play football because it would teach him discipline, it might become his career, and it would help him build his physical strength.

Positive- There are several reasons why football has a positive effect around the world. Reason one, football is broadcasted all over the world on television. Football is one of the main sports in the world; furthermore football is watched by billions of people around the world e.g. England, China, and Brazil etc. Another positive aspect that most football leagues are broadcasted on television e.g. Premiership (English League), Seria A (Italian League) and Liga (Spanish League). Youth club matches e.g. Under 18s and Under 21s can be viewed either on Sky Sports or even BT Sports. BT sports airs matches from Seria A, Ligue 1 and the Premiership, Sky Sports broadcasts matches from the Premiership, Liga and MLS. The reason why Sky Sports and BT Sports air theses football matches as a result they will increase their revenues. Furthermore they will receive more and money from loads of sponsorships that the television company are associated with.

The sociology of football is very interesting topic to look into for most Americans. With football being one of the most popular sports in America. The sport is consistently surrounding us with pee wee, middle school, high school, college and a professional leagues. These professional leagues also have a semi pro leagues as well. But what is sociology of sport and how can we connect it to football? Just looking at the word sociology, the way Jay Coakly defines it as “is the study of the social worlds that people create, maintain, and change through their relationships with each other” (Coakly, 2009, p. 4). The definitions of sociology of sport is sub-discipline of sociology that studies sports as parts of social and cultural. Sociology of sports can also be said as how do participates within a sport or human interaction in a sport is the study of sociology of sport. But what makes football a sport? There is a physical demand on the body to compete in the sport. Football that is played with official’s coaches, and staff. In football there is a huge competitive atmosphere were being on top of the chain is praised greatly. Football has a national governing body that is called the NFL or the National Football League. Making it to the NFL is the dream for most participates that play football. Once players make the NFL, the goal is win a super bowl for the city that the player plays for. Though all levels being the best is the idea form for football.

Soccer or football is one of the most popular sport in many countries worldwide and today the federation’s existence is undetermined. Football was invented in England in the mid 19th century. Although the Chinese claim making a game like football centuries earlier. The federation for football is called Federation Internationale de Football Association also known as FIFA. In the U.S, professional football has become more popular over the years. The non-profit organization FIFA, makes around 4 billion U.S dollars from the World Cup. And according to Forbes, FIFA since 1999 has made 16.2 billion dollars. Federation Internationale de Football Association, a worldwide association, is being investigated by the FBI for scandals, which has a huge impact

Sports today are popular not only in the United States, but also throughout the rest of the world. Due to the fact that sports have such a large impact on the world around us, it is common to grasp their effects on us as a society. Personality is who you are or accordingly, is defined as the sum of all physical, mental and sociable characteristics. It is important to understand the positive and negative side effects of being heavily involved in sports. What I have experienced from being involved in sports throughout my childhood and into my teenage years was that my personality was developed through sports and made me who I have become. The results I came across while writing this paper have only increased my bias to the topic even if it still needed to be proven with facts. Sports have a positive effect on a person, much like it did on me mentally, socially, and physically. I came to my topic when I was trying to figure out what I was passionate enough to write about. Sports have always played an enormous role in my life and I had the opportunity to show how it affects people’s day to day lives.

worlds of sport, media, and leisure. Its meaning is football has been less violent that the

Structure, family, and confidence is what every teen needs in life, whether that be from some organization like Boy Scouts, school, or a team. Family, as well, which can be anywhere from an actual family, friends, or something else is just as important as well. The last thing every teenager needs is confidence. This can come from various areas in a person’s life but the one thing that gives teenagers all three of these is sports. It gives them a place of structure, teammates become a family, and playing will grow them as a person, giving them the opportunity to gain confidence. Most teens in the United States either play some sort of sport or have once played a sport. Approximately 60% of boys and 47% of girls play a sport, which means

By the second half of the Nineteenth Century, the first club and sports federation was established ("football history", 2013). The enthusiasm for football was quickly contagious from Great Britain to other countries, thanks to the population and urbanization process resulted from the Industrial Revolution (Spampinato, 2004). There was an urgent need to build a facility could welcome a high number of spectators and fans (Santo, & Mildner, 2010), formed the awareness of sports importance to individuals and community, to produce a new age of stadia at five sequential steps of progression.