Week 9

This week I was responsible for the presentation. It came from Drew Hyland's book "The Stance of Sport". It was a great reading about things in sports such as value, fun, trust, risk taking, and paradoxes of sports. The reading really brought up some different questions for me in terms of my prospective on the value and fun in sports. I realized that football is always fun for me no matter what bad things come up. Football teaches me life lessons and will definitely help in the long run for me. The paradoxes were definitely correct on how basically if we get knocked down we will better ourselves for fighting back up and that makes achieving our goals that much greater.

Week 8

This week seemed to focus more on heroes. after watching the movie with muhammad ali i can clearly define a hero of mine. that hero is adam vinatieri. a farm boy from south dakota played for a small college but fought through adversity and is now one of the best kickiers, if not the best, in the nfl. people like that show me that the underdog can come out on top and since my 5 foot 8 inch body isnt typical for my position im hoping someday i can achieve all the things i have set out to accomplish.