National Football League Essay Examples

Green Bay, Wisconsin, home to just over 100,000 people is the smallest market in any major sports league in the United States. Dubbed in the mid-sixties as “Title town, USA”, Green Bay is the proud home of the National Football League’s Green Bay Packers. Such a small town allows for many unique experiences. Only in […]

A major role in my life would definitely be sports. It is almost as if I look up to sports because I could not live without them. Sports pretty much define me as me. I love to play sports as well as watch all kinds of sports on T.V. and if I could ever go […]

Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life Author: Tony Dungy A Book Report Michael Fors BUS 625/626 • Dr. David Bess The book I chose was Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life, by Tony Dungy. This is more than an autobiography of the life of Tony […]

Fans in San Francisco are finally feeling positive, and believe this NFL team is on track to returning to the glory days of the 1980s. Rebuilding a team is a process that really occurs from the bottom up. In 2007, the 49ers were 5-11, and halfway into the 2008 season, the brass fired Mike Nolan, […]

The finished the 2009 season with an 8-8 record, which was only good enough to get them third place in the NFC South. The Carolina Panthers are hoping to improve on that record, but one of their problems is that they play in the same division as the Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints. Therefore, […]

The Indianapolis Colts have been Super Bowl contenders every year for a decade. Truly, everyone in the AFC must be getting sick of them by now. Fortunately for everyone in the AFC, the Colts are beginning to show a bit of age and a little vulnerability going into 2010. The good: Peyton Manning looks to […]

If there was ever any doubt that one-year head coach Josh McDaniel is completely in control of acquiring players he wants, let us dispel that right away. At the end of the 2008 season, Mike Shanahan was fired, and McDaniel was hired on January 11th. By the end of March, he had gone through very […]

Heading into the final stretch of the 2010 NFL season, the Philadelphia Eagles are tied with the New York Giants at the top of the NFL standings, but their 6-3 record doesn’t tell the whole story. Quarterback Michael Vick, playing his first full season after a two-year suspension for his part in a dog-fighting ring […]

The Eagles are coming off an interesting year, one in which they made the playoffs, but then traded away their veteran, Pro Bowl, likely Hall of Fame quarterback. What in the world are they thinking? Are You as Dumb as I Think You Are? Coach Andy Reid must think that everyone outside Philly is stupid. […]

The Seattle Seahawks were a fairly decent team not many years ago, but they have fallen off significantly in recent seasons. In 2009, they only managed 5 wins. So, the powers that be in Seattle decided to pretty much clean house in an effort to bring the Seahawks back to a contender. The new head […]

A disappointing football game apparently caused a drunken woman to choke her 11-year-old daughter on Sunday night. Police indicate that the 36-year-old woman from Wisconsin was charged in Outagamie Country Court on a count of felony child abuse and a misdemeanor for disorderly conduct and bail jumping. The Grand Chute hotel called the police in […]

Within two weeks from the worst season experienced by the Indianapolis Colts in two decades, Coach Jim Caldwell was finally pushed out the door. During Caldwell’s first two seasons as coach to the Colts, Caldwell endured practically everything thrown his way, including bouncing back from losses and struggling through injuries. Apparently, the loss of Peyton […]

After close scrutiny by a third party neurologist as well as by the training staff of the Philadelphia Eagles, quarterback Michael Vick received the go signal for playing football again. This means Vick will be playing in Sunday’s game against the Giants, sources told Sal Paolantonio of ESPN. With the clearance from the NFL-appointed neurologist, […]

The Rooney Rule Let’s confront it, in this twenty-four hours in age, diverseness regulations. Everything you hear or see these years is ever related to race. Take the National Football League for illustration. The conference is known for holding a really low figure of minority caput managers and was being criticized about it about every […]

February 7th, 2010. Super Bowl XLIV. Four years post Hurricane Katrina. As smoke cleared from “The Who” halftime concert, Thomas Morstead, the kicker for the New Orleans Saints, set to kick the ball off to the Indianapolis Colts to start the third quarter. With the Saints down 10 to 6, and Indianapolis’s Chad Simpson standing […]

Jerral “Jerry” Wayne Jones was born October 13, 1942, in Los Angeles, California. He is the owner and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys. As a co-captain of the 1964 National Championship Arkansas Razorbacks, Jones is one of a very small number of NFL owners who actually earned a significant level of success as football […]

There are many similarities and differences in being drafted in the NBA and the NFL. Some of these similarities of the NBA are that there are four camps in different states and all the scouts from every team is there, scouts from overseas and all. The players get assigned to a certain group and you […]

The mere mention of NFL conjures up images and notions of Sundays on the couch all day on the couch. From September till February every person knows that Sunday is pre-booked for the NFL. All teams play one game every week except for one bye week during the season. The other historical game has been […]

Brett Favor is one of the best quarterbacks if not the best to play the game. He led the Packers to the first super bowl since the Vince Lombardi era. He leads the league with the most passing yards all-time. Brett Favor was born in Guilford, Mississippi and raised in the small town of Kiln, […]