Sunflower Seed #7: Team Sports in America

Team sports in America has taken many different shits. According to Football High a video we watched in this week's class and the reading we did titled, A Variety of Religious Experience there are two themes such as transportation and heroes and role models that stuck out to me. Throughout Football High transportation is shown throughout the video. One main form of transportation that many of the teams use is a school bus. This helps teams leave and arrive together as a whole. In the reading A Variety of Religious Experience, transportation also comes up but in a different way. Transportation such as trains began to emerge during the Industrial Revolution era. Trains aloud for spectators to travel easier and quicker to games that were farther away which is exactly what school busses do for teams today. 

Another theme mentioned in both the video and the reading is heroes and role models. In the video, Football High, Kyle Frasier the quarterback for one of the teams is seen as a role model to a lot of younger athletes who attend the same school as him because of his phenomenal football ability. Younger students look up to him because of his success that he has been acquiring throughout his football career. The theme heroes and role models also occurs in the article we read. A Variety of Religious Experience also shows the theme heroes and role models by informing us that people often think of heroes as people who are hardworking, diligent, successful and an individual that gives people something to look up to. Kyle Frasier meets the exact definition mentioned in the reading because he gives younger students something to look up to which is himself. Kyle Frasier's success and hardworking personality make him a role model because people look up to those who are successful and work hard for the success that they achieve.