Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Football High

Sports are one thing in life that can give you the greatest feeling of pride and the worst feeling of failure. Sink a hole in one and you'll remember the glory of that moment for the rest of your life. Miss an easy shot to win the game, and you'll also remember that for the rest of your life, but for a different reason. Sometimes athletes can become a little too wrapped up in these sensations. One example is the athlete who suffered the heat stroke. He suffered a potentially life threatening injury, and was back out on the field 6 months later because his team was a state championship contender. This is a perfect example of BIRGing. He probably shouldn't have been out there, but was because the team was successful.
Another example is Kiehl Frazier. Everyone wanted to have a piece of him. He was being recruited by the best schools in the country and his parents even hired a sports promoter to further his career. The documentary put a big focus on him because they obviously thought he was going places too.
Everyone was BIRGing Kiehl and this probably put a lot of pressure on him. As we know now, he never lived up to these expectations, and now has little to no chance to ever make money playing football.
Though the video spends a large portion focusing on Trinity's success, it does spend a little bit of time talking about the 80-26 beating they took from a team from texas. They only spend about 5 minutes talking about this however, because failure is a less attractive outcome. No one wants to watch a documentary on a team that goes 1-8 on the season. This is a good example of CORFing. They cut out the negatives and emphasize the positives in an attempt to make the story better.

2 comments:

  1. i like how you point out how they only talk about their loss for a little bit while the majority of the video focuses on Trinity's success.

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  2. I definitely agree with you here. I also noticed that they didn't spend much time talking about the loss, but spent most of the time talking about their successes.

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