Intramural Flag Football

My team (Death Row) had its first intramural flag football game this past Sunday. Before the game was started our team found out that the league does everything it can to keep your thirty dollar entry fee. Our team was already ineligible to get our money back because we were three minutes late for the coaches meeting. The team we were playing against found out the hard way about the unknown rules enforced by the officials. The rule that everyone has to bring their student I.D. to the game to be able to play is reasonable but a little extreme. I can see where the school is coming from with that one, which makes sure that all players are students at Ohio. But realistically, is anyone going to bring in ringers to play in their intramural flag football games? The most ridiculos rule that was enforced was the no pockets rule. You are not allowed to wear shorts that have pockets and if you do you cannot play. The explanation for this rule is that it is an injury risk. Injury risk? Come on! How does playing flag football with shorts that have pockets risk injury? The combination of these two rules that both teams were ignorant of resulted in the forfeit of the other team. (We live closer to the fields and were back before 4:30)The 4:30 forfeit time was ridiculos because the games before us weren't even finished by 4:30 but the other team showed up at 4:35 so they had to forfeit. As a result they can no longer recieve their thirty dollars back because they forfeited. It is now clear how the intramural offices make all their money, by enforcing seemingly pointless unknown rules to prey on freshmen who haven't played before and don't know the rules. We ended up scrimaging but where disappointed we didn't get to play a game with actual meaning to it but at least we got the win.

NASCAR a Sport?

Although it is loved by thousands and thousands of people many people such as myself do not consider nascar a sport. I know it takes a lot of skill to drive four hundred laps when it hits triple digits on the thermostat and I'm not trying to take that away. However, the fact that it doesn't require any major physical action to compete makes me think whether or not it should be classified as a sport. I would classify it as entertainment because it takes a lot of skill, but not very much athletic ability. I know many people would probably be offended by this assumption but I don't think driving a racecar requires much athletic ability. Other sports are decided by how atheletes perform and NASCAR is decided by how a car performs. When you take the deciding factors out of the atheletes hands and into the hands of a judge or a car you lose the sporting spirit. Sports such as football, basketball, and baseball, all require skill, atheletic ability, and the outcomes are decided by the players. I understand that NASCAR is growing in popularity and people love it but I just can't call it a sport. I don't think the U.S. will come to a point where the fourth major "sport" is NASCAR because I think many other people have the same opinion as I do. However its popularity is rising in the U.S. and I guess I'm going to have to deal with the fact that it will be called a "sport" by majority of sports fans. Many people love NASCAR and obviously I'm not one of them so please forgive me if I've offended you and your love of NASCAR.

NBA Thugs

For a long time now the NBA has been labeled as a "Thug" league and many people stick their noses up at because of this label. However, I believe that this label should be applied to the NFL. Although the NBA does have its fair share of thugs (Ron Artest, Steven Jackson) the NFL has had more players arrested in the last 2 years than the NBA. The reason the NFL doen't have the "Thug" label is because it is the more popular league and makes a lot more money, but if you think about the NFL has to have more thugs because there are lot more players and football is a violent sport. You have to be the biggest, meanest, and toughest dude out there or the game will chew you up and spit you out. Some players have seem to have that kind of mentality in the real world too and that has lead to a lot of arrests over the past couple of years. I'm not saying all NFL players are thugs because most of them are probably really good guys but there are some who definitley deserve the thug label. Football is a great sport but you have to be a bad dude when you are playing the game and some guys obviously don't know how to turn it off when they are finished playing and this gets guys into trouble with the law. So the next time your thinking of calling the NBA a "Thug" League stop and think if you are labeling the right league.

NFL Player Suspensions

As you've all probably heard NFL players are getting into more trouble with the law than ever before. Players like Adam "Pacman" Jones, Chris Henry, Odell Thurman, and Michael Vick are the headliners in this new trend. All of these players have either been arrested in the past year or have serious allegations and charges pending against them. I applaud commissioner Goodell for the actions he has taken in disciplining these players who have broken the law. However some are against such strict penalties like seasonlong suspensions and eight and ten game suspensions. Although they may seem harsh at first but I believe they are fair enough take Rams defensive Leonard Little in 1998 he decided to drive drunk and was responsible for a crash that killed a women and recieved only an eight game suspension. Let me state again that he was responsible for killing someone! Nowawadays the NFL suspends players for four games for violating the leagues substance abuse policies and suspended Pacman Jones for an entire season for being arrested five times since joining the Titans in 2005. As you can see the NFL has really cracked down on players who get into legal troubles. If Leonard Little would have gotten would have done what he did recently he would have be suspended minimum of one season. Although the penalties may be a lot stiffer I think they need to be so that players might think before breaking the law. Overall I think the change had to be made and the league can only benefit from it.

Writing Experience

My opinion on writing isn't very good, because I'm not very good at it. I need to work on the flow of my papers and refrain from using the same words over and over again.