Adam Wall

The National Football league

            The NFL is the staple of American culture today. It’s what everyone talks about. It’s all about how their team is doing. It is about their fantasy league, and dreaming of their team finally winning the super bowl. The NFL is at another level when it comes to sports, in America; it dominates the sports world and is the center of attention. Instead of talking sports and football in this blog, I am going to talking about the NFL from a business point of view, the influence they have on our population and their soon to be decline.

           

            The NFL is worth billions and billions of dollars, only the richest of the rich have to chance to own one of these teams. The owners of these teams have a lot of power and money. Along with the teams, millions and billions of dollars are put into advertisement. Commercials, sponsors, merchandise and many other promotions have boosted so many products and businesses. They have such an influence and image created for sports watchers around the world, whether its having a party with friends, beer everywhere and girls dancing all over the place or simply sitting in a recliner, relaxing and watching the NFL. We never realize what a profound impact the NFL has had on a lot of peoples lives, some people don’t like sports but some people let it consume their lives and the NFL tries everything it can to make more and more money and to get peoples lives engrossed in football.

            The NFL, with all the power they have might be losing it though. Football and the American culture are slowly deteriorating and football might face the same fate that boxing had along time ago. The danger of the sport turns away children for their safety. Concussions and brain damage is a serious problem in football. People are running at each other at high speeds with the intention of knocking the lights out of each other, it isn’t safe.  The future of football is not good if kids around the country aren’t playing the game. I don’t think there is anything you can do to make football safer so I think we all just need to start converting to the most popular game in the world, soccer.

            Scandals and legal issues also surround the NFL. I get so mad at owners and the leaders of the NFL because of how they handle situations legally. Lately, Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson are just two examples. The NFL is just so arrogant and so rich, they don’t seem to care about the opinions of their business partners they just want more money. They don’t care that Adrian Peterson beat his kid. They just want him back in the league to make them more money. Money runs the world and it really runs the NFL. This blind disregard for their reputation and so much greed could end up crushing the NFL like kicker being blind-sided by a massive lineman.