Faith, Family and Football

This past semester has been a great experience. Couple of weeks going into the class when we started to go into invisble narratives, I had an idea of how the class was going to go and what Caitlin wanted all of us to leave with from her class. A sense of knowledge and for that I am grateful for learning. I use to call invisible narratives "hidden messages" before I knew what the actual word was to call it. I was never too far from this word. As more and more we read and learned the different ways this way of speaking or writing has affected us the more I was surprised with the intensity and depth this has on everyone.

An article that I really enjoyed and got alot from reading was the invisible narratives in football. That one was really interesting and opened my eyes to things that can be super obvious but for a person who loves football or any sport has goggles that can hide them from the dark circle of  truth  in football. I come from a family that are huge fanatics in sports especially football and baseball.

I always found it sort of cheesy or irrelevent to make a sport into a family thing but it's something I've always seen as something good from the family because it's what gets us together and have a good
time. But something that I see with football and many sports especially now after what I learned on invisble narratives is that football is way far from that and instead of creating a strong bond withing people it actually becomes into violence.

There's all these rival teams in the NFL and rival players and rival fans because these two teams don't like eachother. I don't know what you guys think but I just think hating or having so much hate to get violent with someone over a game is just plain wrong and some people need to reevaluate  a few things here. Football is a violent sport it consists of tackling, pushing, throwing. If one is a football player they are expected to be strong, take charge of their emotions and abilities and always reach for the best and never give up. These men go through so much! I could never imagine myself in a place where so much pressure is put on a being to win a game. I know these games and teams mean a lot to many many people, don't get me wrong I'm one of them but at time I have to think and say good game, it wasn't their day and move one. Things happen, players won't put up to ones expectation from them all the time. It's sad to know there are so many people put down others for something that clearly not everyone can be such as being a football player but yet a lot of these people come up with all these assumptions and stereotypes that a player has to follow. All I can ask myself is where did this come from, why doesn't have to be so violent.

Anyway before I start to get more into the whole football, sports dilemma, I just wanna finish off that this is just one of the many things that impacted me out of this class and this was just an article, many other things we have discussed or have read have had the same or even more intense impact on my views and what my beliefs or opinions were. Everywhere I go whether a show, go to the movies, shopping, listen to music I always put a lot of thought into the lives of the people who perform and the work they do and what society expects in them as performers but this also opened my eyes to a bigger picture and that we lived in a very fucked up world ,sorry for my use of word but I think it's the one that best explains how I feel. There's so hate, looking down on people that I don't understand how it even started. I understand animals have reason to because they need self defense to survive but why do we have to the same? Why do we have to make up a game or a choice of music can determine if someone likes you or not.

I'm just trying to say that I'm not happy with how things are not only in my country but all over the world. Although I am glad to be a part of this learning experience in this class I've also been exposed to so many negatives that have actually let me down in a way. Not sure if it's a good thing that I feel this way but with the more I learn the more it's getting easier to understand that it's not an easy world out there and no matter what you say, do, like, or have there will always be someone who will not accept it. But this also opens my eyes that there's also hope for change and I hope that more students take classes similar and learn more on this issue and possibly eventually having more people move to make that change.

Well I feel like at this point I'm just rambling so I'll just let you guys go. Good Luck on finals and have a wonderful break!