#3-10

#3
5 Comments
1. By 1913, all of the board games that had to do with football had the word Quarterback in it.
2. The Quarterback was seen as the "hero" in magazines during this time.
3. So Alexis de Tocqueville was a person, I'm guessing that had to do something with Football.
4. This book has a lot of descriptions that set a lot of moods, such as darkness or mystery.
5. I wouldn't expect so much mood from a "history of" book.
4 Questions
1. How do you make a board game about Football?
2. What were the Concepts?
3. Do any of these games still exist today.?
4. What is "Alexis de Tocqueville?
3 Vocab
1. Tocqueville [page 33]-French politician, traveler, and historian. After touring the United States (1831-1832), he wrote Democracy in America (1835), a widely influential study of American institutions.
2. Charisma [page 33]-the special virtue of an office, function, position, etc., that confers or is thought to confer on the person holding it an unusual ability for leadership, worthiness of veneration, or the like.
3. Frenzy-a fit or spell of violent mental excitement; a paroxysm characteristic of or resulting from a mania
2 Literary Devices
1. Foreshadow[page 33]- "The Dallas Cowboys were stuck in traffic."
2. Mood[page 33]- "Duck was beginning to roll over the low hill country along the lake, where gray and black clouds gathered.."
1 Sentence Overview.
1. This Chapter connects Football to the events that took place in the life of Alexis de Tocqueville.

#4
5 Comments
1."The actual chapters of How Football Explains America are all but unreadable. Paolantonio rehashes a game or a heartwarming football-related anecdote with the gusto of the true bore. Then he explains why this explains how football explains the battle of Midway. Or Davy Crockett. Or manifest destiny. Each chapter more tedious than the last."-[http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2008/oct/01/ussport]
2. Above was a review that I found about this book on the internet.
3. I definitely agree with this comment.
4. I thought that this book would be enjoyable to me, but it is not.
5. It is more of a history book than I anticipated and it does word the content in a bit of a monotonic way.
4 Questions
1. Which team does Tony Romo play on again?
2. How long has he played?
3. What other Football players does this book mention?
4. Why is this chapter focusing on the Dallas Cowboys?
3 Vocab
1. Tony Romo-Antonio Ramiro "Tony" Romo was born on April 21, 1980, in San Diego, California. Tony Romo is the current starting quarterback for the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys. Tony Romo replaced Drew Bledsoe in Week 8 of the 2006 season.
2. Ferocious- savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel
3. Poconos- a mountain range in NE Pennsylvania: resort area. ab. 2000 ft. (610 m) high.
2 Literary Devices
1. Irony - "Should've stayed in traffic"[pg 35]
2. Mood- "Whooping and Hollering beyond the disbelief[pg 26]
1 Sentence Overview.
1. This chapter mainly focuses on the Cowboys and one of their victories focusing on Tony Romo.

#5
5 Comments
1. In the same intro we learn from Paolantonio that soccer is so boring that fans have to start fights and embrace fascism just to stay awake and that a founding principle of American football is "relinquishing the ball quickly to the other team". This will puzzle anybody who's sat through the drawn-out rigmarole of both sides quitting the field and the sending on of two entirely different teams (while the crowd are distracted by clowns and dancing girls, Frisbee-catching dogs and mascots firing T-shirts out of bazookas). [http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2008/oct/01/ussport]
2. Above is another comment that a man made in response to this book.
3. I agree with everything they are saying.
4. He does down other sports in the beginning of this book.
5. Another comment was that the author of this book did not watch or even read about other sports because apparently some of the information was erroneous.
4 Questions
1. Why does he downplay other sports?
2. Did he play Football in College or High school or something?
3. What sparked him to create a whole book focusing on Football?
4. Why didn’t he choose basketball or baseball?
3 Vocab
1. Fledging- to provide (an arrow) with feathers
2. Paul D. Hubbard-Paul Hubbard, a deaf man, graduated from Kansas School for the Deaf. He was a quarterback at Gallaudet University. He invented the football huddle in the 1940's. The huddle means to gather the people together to discuss the plays during football games.
3.
2 Literary Devices
1. Irony- Hubbard was deaf, he could not hear anything but he was a great quarterback and even invented the huddle.
2. Irony- In the huddle, who have to talk, very low, he could not hear, it would be difficult for him to be apart of the talk.
1 Sentence Overview.
1. This explains how certain Quarterbacks jumped over huddles in their lives.

#6
5 Comments
1. This part of the book focuses a lot on the Dallas Cowboys.
2. Maybe this is Foreshadowing of something bad about to happen to them.
3. This book doesn’t have a lot of literary devices or strong use of unknown vocabulary.
4. I don’t know how a history book could have a substantial amount of literary devices if it was written based on history and not in the form of a monologue.
5. This book is kind of hard to read because it states most things very blandly.
4 Questions
1. What is the oldest sport?
2. Where did this sport originate?
3. Again, why did he really sit and spend time writing a book all about Football?
4. When did this book come out?
3 Vocab
1. Troy Aikman- Born: November 21, 1966
Drafted: Selected No.1 overall by the Dallas Cowboys in 1989
Years Played: 1989-2000
Position Played: Quarterback
Played For: Dallas Cowboys
2. Convey- to communicate; impart; make known: to convey a wish.
3. Notre Dame- Also called Notre Dame de Paris  /Fr. nɔtrə dam də paˈri/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [Fr. naw-truh dam duh pa-ree] Show IPA Pronunciation , a famous early gothic cathedral in Paris (started 1163).
2 Literary Devices
1.Irony- "Wayne, soft spoken in public.."
2. Its ironic because he was actually a very rowdy ride-receiver.
1 Sentence Overview.
1.This part of the book just speaks about different wide-receivers and QB's on the Dallas team(Cowboys).

#7
5 Comments
1. How Football Explains America is a canard built on a false assumption
based on a lazy anthropological cliché.[http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2008/oct/01/ussport]
2. I they do not even let you play sports with headphones on in fear of not being able to hear.
3. This book just states facts that the author could have just got from any internet site.
4. This book should pick if it wants to be a monologue or a strictly facts book.
5. I didn't think that they had full blown out uniforms in 1946.
4 Questions
1. Tony Aikman is deaf?
2. How did Aikman play when he could not hear anything at all?
3. Where did the author get all the information?
4. Why does it keep switching back and forth form facts to story?
3 Vocab
1.Raheem Fukwan Brock- Raheem Fukwan Brock (born June 10, 1978 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American football player who currently plays defensive tackle for the Indianapolis Colts. He was a four-year letterman at Temple University who started 33 career games and finished career with 160 tackles, 11 sacks, 30 stops for losses and 35 QB pressures. He was drafted in the 2002 NFL Draft by the Philadelphia Eagles, but cut before the 2002 season began due to franchise running out of money to sign their rookies.
2.Marion Motley- helped break football's race barrier in 1946.
3. Defunct-no longer in effect or use; not operating or functioning: a defunct law; a defunct organization.
2 Literary Devices
1. Antagonist- Maybe the antagonists in this chapter would be the people that underestimated Motley.
2. Character- Marion Motley.
1 Sentence Overview.
1. This part of the story is about Marion Motley and how he helped defy the idea of racism in America.

#8
5 Comments
1. In the US, baseball has long served the same purpose. The game is
uniquely American — goes the theory — because it is uniquely suited to and reflective of uniquely American qualities (and those qualities are, of
course, absolutely marvelous). [http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2008/oct/01/ussport]
2. Marion Motley helped break the barrier of color that Football had in 1946.
3. No Football is dominated by people of color and people that are not white.
4. I know about the baseball color barrier but no one really talks about Motley and the Football barrier.
5. I guess this book isn't totally irrelevant. It starts to represent how the idea of racism began to be overturned in terms of Football.
4 Questions
1.Who were the people before Motley that helped?
2. So the idea of racism actually spilled over to Football.
3. Did they realize that with Motley on their team, they actually won 4 titles in four consecutive years?
4. How did Vince Lombardi die?
3 Vocab
1. Tony Dungy- nthony Kevin "Tony" Dungy (born October 6, 1955) is a former professional American football player and the current head coach of the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. Prior to that, between 1996 and 2001, he was the head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He became the first African American head coach to win the Super Bowl when his Colts defeated the Chicago Bears on February 4, 2007. On December 18, 2008 after defeating the Jacksonville Jaguars Dungy set a new NFL Record for consecutive playoff appearances by a Head Coach the win against Jacksonville securing his tenth straight playoff appearance. [1]
2. Vince Lombardi-Vince(nt Thomas), 1913–70, U.S. football coach.
3. Aloft- high up; far above the ground.
2 Literary Devices
1. Simile-"No, his journey is like a Coltrane melody that requires every ounce of imaginative improvisation.
2. Setting- "At midfeild after the game"
1 Sentence Overview.
1. This part of the story talks about Jackie Robinson and Jack Coltrane.

#9
5 Comments
1. "Football explains America," says NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on the book jacket, "because the game is about teamwork and camaraderie, competition and passion, strategy and emotion. You can look at football and see the heart of America."[ http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2008/oct/01/ussport]
2. Johnson is the coach of the New York Jets.
3. They're a pretty good team now a days.
4. There is an office in N.Y named the Weeb Ewbank Hall.
5. Ewbank was the only coach to bring the Jets a Super Bowl trophy.
4 Questions
1. Woody Johnson is jealous of what?
2. Is he jealous of another team?
3. What is meant by second sister?
4. They're referring to New York correct?
3 Vocab
1. Don Shula-Donald Francis (“Don”), born 1930, U.S. football coach.
2. Lovie Smith-Lovie Lee Smith (born May 8, 1958(1958-05-08) in Gladewater, Texas) is the head coach of the Chicago Bears professional football team of the NFL. Smith has been to the Super Bowl twice, as the defensive coordinator for the 2001 Saint Louis Rams and as the head coach for the Chicago Bears in 2006.
3. Herm Edwards-Herman Lee "Herm" Edwards, Jr. (born April 27, 1954) is the American football head coach of the National Football League's Kansas City Chiefs. He played the position of cornerback for ten seasons (1977-1986) with the Philadelphia Eagles, Los Angeles Rams and Atlanta Falcons. Prior to his coaching career, Edwards was known best as the player who recovered a fumble by Giants quarterback Joe Pisarcik on a play that has been dubbed by some as "The Miracle at the Meadowlands."
2 Literary Devices
1. Foreshadow- "Woody Johnson is jealous"
2. Setting-"the Big Apple"
1 Sentence Overview.
1. This part of the story still deals with a lot of setting and trying to fufill the name of the book.

#10
5 Comments
1. The contraction in scope and ambition tells all. One hopes other authors pursue this logic further. How Welly Wanging Explains West Yorkshire. How Bog Snorkelling Explains Llanwrtyd Wells. How Lying on the Couch Reading This Crap Book Explains My Living Room. How My Cat Sylvie Explains My Stomach. The possibilities are endless. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2008/oct/01/ussport]
2. This book is sort of irrelevant to its purpose.
3. all this book does is explain how football connects to events and people connected with America.
4. The whole point of this book is to answer how does football explain America?
5. It fails to do so.
4 Questions
1. How does, now, football explain America?
2. Why was pro-football such a big part of the media and magazines?
3. When was this interview with Manning held?
4. Why did they choose Peyton Manning, instead of someone else, to wrap up the whols story?
3 Vocab
1. Dave Meggyesy-David Meggyesy was an All-American linebacker at Syracuse University before playing for the National Football League's St. Louis (now Arizona) Cardinals from 1963-1969. He was active in the movements for civil rights and opposition to the war in Viet Nam. In 1970 he wrote his football autobiography, Out of Their League, that examined how big time sports in the United States can dehumanize athletes. Since 1981, Dave Meggyesy has worked as the Western Regional Director of the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA)
2. Harry Edwards- Edwards' career has focused on the experience of African-American athletes and he is a strong advocate of black participation in the management of professional sports. He has served as a staff consultant to the San Francisco 49ers football team and to the Golden State Warriors basketball team. He has also been involved in recruiting black talent for front-office positions in major league baseball.
3. Human Rights- fundamental rights, esp. those believed to belong to an individual and in whose exercise a government may not interfere, as the rights to speak, associate, work, etc.
2 Literary Devices
1. Personification-"While nursing a cup of Coffee"
2. Dialogue- "This question transports me back to my youth said Bob Papa.
1 Sentence Overview.
1. The end of the book explains why he chose to write this book, Peyton Manning says that they was Football explains us all is through its fans.