America Needs its Nerds

This essay is very true America would idolize the football player instead of the intellectiual. How are we going to stay on top where it is considered to be uncool to be smart. I have always felt pro athletes are getting paid a lot of money to play a kids game honestly. There are thousands of kids that devote there lives to being a pro athlete and dont make it that could have really helped society. Maybe a the best athletes should be saving lives not playing a game

Task Three Reflection

The only story I feel I could relate to was “Let Teen-Agers Try Adulthood”. I have never been racially discriminated against for being white. The only thing I can relate to is the fact that I used to play football from elementary to high school. And they took it a lot easier on us. You always knew who played football because, our team had us wear our jerseys to school every Friday for my entire life. I never realized the fact till I got a little older that half the audience at our games were teachers. And there were always rivalries between schools. At Central High School things were really easy for football and basketball players. Teachers took those two sports very serious. Botstein talked about the fact that sports dominated over culture even. He touches the fact teachers are often former coaches. And teacher for three classes were current coaches.