Growing Up On The Gridiron

Author : Vicki Mayk
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080702192X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up on the Gridiron written by Vicki Mayk and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the experience of one young man and the concerns about CTE he helped to illuminate, and the cultural allure of football in America that keeps boys trying to make the team despite the dangers Award-winning journalist Vicki Mayk raises a critical question for football players and their communities: does loving a sport justify risking your life? This is the insightful and deeply human story of Owen Thomas—a star football player at Penn, who took his own life when he was 21, the result of the pain and anguish caused by chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). It was Owen’s landmark case which demonstrated that a player didn’t need years of head bashing in the NFL, or even multiple sustained brain concussions, to cause the mind-altering, life-threatening, degenerative disease known as CTE. And Owen’s case could not have come to light without Dr. Ann McKee, the neuropathologist who bucked conventional wisdom, and the football establishment, as she examined Owen’s brain and its larger significance, building an ever-stronger case that said, at the very least, football should not be played by children under the age of 14. With its focus on a single life and the community touched by it—Owen’s family, his teammates and friends, his teachers and coaches, and, later, Dr. McKee—Growing Up on the Gridiron explores the place of football in our lives. It doesn’t make a heavy-handed argument to abandon the sport. Rather, it explores why football matters so deeply to many young men, and why they continue to take risks despite the evidence of serious, long-term harm.

Author : Vicki Mayk
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807021962
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up on the Gridiron written by Vicki Mayk and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the experience of one young man and the concerns about CTE he helped to illuminate, and the cultural allure of football in America that keeps boys trying to make the team despite the dangers Award-winning journalist Vicki Mayk raises a critical question for football players and their communities: does loving a sport justify risking your life? This is the insightful and deeply human story of Owen Thomas—a star football player at Penn, who took his own life when he was 21, the result of the pain and anguish caused by chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). It was Owen’s landmark case which demonstrated that a player didn’t need years of head bashing in the NFL, or even multiple sustained brain concussions, to cause the mind-altering, life-threatening, degenerative disease known as CTE. And Owen’s case could not have come to light without Dr. Ann McKee, the neuropathologist who bucked conventional wisdom, and the football establishment, as she examined Owen’s brain and its larger significance, building an ever-stronger case that said, at the very least, football should not be played by children under the age of 14. With its focus on a single life and the community touched by it—Owen’s family, his teammates and friends, his teachers and coaches, and, later, Dr. McKee—Growing Up on the Gridiron explores the place of football in our lives. It doesn’t make a heavy-handed argument to abandon the sport. Rather, it explores why football matters so deeply to many young men, and why they continue to take risks despite the evidence of serious, long-term harm.

Author : Brian M. Ingrassia
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700621393
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Gridiron University written by Brian M. Ingrassia and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quarterback sends his wide receiver deep. The crowd gasps as he launches the ball. And when he hits his man, the team's fans roar with approval-especially those with the deep pockets. Make no mistake; college football is big business, played with one eye on the score, the other on the bottom line. But was this always the case? Brian M. Ingrassia here offers the most incisive account to date of the origins of college football, tracing the sport's evolution from a gentlemen's pastime to a multi-million dollar enterprise that made athletics a permanent fixture on our nation's campuses and cemented college football's place in American culture. He takes readers back to the late 1800s to tell how schools embraced the sport as a way to get the public interested in higher learning-and then how football's immediate popularity overwhelmed campuses and helped create the beast we know today. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Ingrassia proves that the academy did not initially resist the inclusion of athletics; rather, progressive reformers and professors embraced football as a way to make the ivory tower less elitist. With its emphasis on disciplined teamwork and spectatorship, football was seen as a "middlebrow" way to make the university more accessible to the general public. What it really did was make athletics a permanent fixture on campus with its own set of professional experts, bureaucracies, and ostentatious cathedrals. Ingrassia examines the early football programs at universities like Michigan, Stanford, Ohio State, and others, then puts those histories in the context of Progressive Era culture, including insights from coaches like Georgia Tech's John Heisman and Notre Dame's Knute Rockne. He describes how reforms emerged out of incidents such as Teddy Roosevelt's son being injured on the field and a section of grandstands collapsing at the University of Chicago. He also touches on some of the problems facing current day college football and shows us that we haven't come far from those initial arguments more than a century ago. The Rise of Gridiron University shows us where and how it all began, highlighting college football's essential role in shaping the modern university-and by extension American intellectual culture. It should have wide appeal among students of American studies and sports history, as well as fans of college football curious to learn how their game became a cultural force in a matter of a few decades.

Author : Gronkowski (Family)
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544126688
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up Gronk written by Gronkowski (Family) and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A behind-the-scenes story of the family whose extra-tall sons include professional baseball and football players, offering insight into how they were raised, trained, and fed by their athletically committed parents.

Author : Colt McCoy
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1616266597
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up Colt written by Colt McCoy and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You watched him vie for the Heisman and national championship, and earn a third-round NFL draft spot. Now meet Colt McCoy up-close and personal! Growing Up Colt—A Father, a Son, a Life in Football is a unique biography by both the Cleveland Browns quarterback and his father, Brad, a highly-respected football coach in his native Texas. Get a behind-the-scenes view of the formative events of Colt’s football experience and the foundational principles of his family and faith life. Growing Up Colt promises an inspiring read for football fans of all ages—and don’t miss the exciting full-color photo section!

Author : David Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up With Pro Football written by David Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2020-02 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing Up With Pro Football is a look back at pro football's greatest era. The year 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of when author David Wilson became a fan of pro football, and he grew up with the game. Growing Up With Pro Football chronicles how football in the 1960s eventually blossomed into the wild and entertaining game that it was in the 1970s. It includes perspectives from sportswriters, players, and coaches about what made the games memorable and about what made pro football thrive. If you like football or history or reminiscing about days gone by, you'll appreciate this fresh recollection of football's best decade.

Author : Everson Walls
Publisher : Lyons Press
ISBN 13 : 9780762763757
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Gift for Ron written by Everson Walls and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Brian’s Song for a new generation ... the moving story of a rare friendship between two pro football stars.

Author : The Editors Of Sports Illustrated Kids
Publisher : Time Inc. Books
ISBN 13 : 1683306252
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Football Fanbook (A Sports Illustrated Kids Book) written by The Editors Of Sports Illustrated Kids and published by Time Inc. Books. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So you've become a football fan and now you want to take your passion for the game to the next level? Then The Ultimate Football Fan Handbook is just what you need. Filled with fun facts to dazzle your friends, important numbers and milestones, the unique lingo of the game, the strategies that teams employ, and much, much more, this book will have its readers sounding like experts and dazzling their friends with their knowledge.

Author : Ashley Jude Collie
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823936915
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gridiron Greats written by Ashley Jude Collie and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2002-12-15 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles eight outstanding NFL players who had to overcome obstacles on their way to fame and success.

Author : Andrew Goldstein
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1491859334
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing up Green written by Andrew Goldstein and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Goldstein delved into the world of football at age five and, through a mistake that is equal parts painful and wonderful, somehow ended up rooting for the New York Jets. Thirteen years later, he decided to write a book about it. The uplifting, disheartening, wonderful, awful, hilarious, and generally crazy experiences in the middle? Theyre all in the pages of this book. Growing Up Green is an attempt to shed a little bit of light on what it means to be a sports fan, and how the fan experience shapes us throughout our lives. This story will be told not through the lens of an expert, but from the perspective of a regular football fanatic who bleeds green and white. Along the way, youll either discover or re-discover the inner workings of a sports fans mind, and have a heck of a good time doing it. If youre a diehard, a casual fan, have the slightest bit of curiosity in what it means to be a fan, or are Andrew Goldsteins immediate friends and family, then this book is for you.