Being dedicated to sports has kept the overall
passion for sports alive. Whether
gaining allegiance through the Negro League and the black journalists or
watching more NFL due to your love for Fantasy, everyone must work together to
benefit each other.
Fantasy Football has been consuming
lives since 1962 when the Oakland Prognoginators emerged. Since then people have been gushing over
winning and running their own league to the point where losing has begun a “Losers
Tattoo League.” It’s an obsession that
drives sports’ fans alike to the addiction to the television on Sunday, Monday,
Thursday, and sometimes even Saturday nights.
Fortunado plays with this concept about
whether Fantasy Football has any effect on the ratings of the NFL. In order to figure this out, there had to be
a study done showing if there was a relationship. First he had to see if fantasy influenced two
important concepts in media: 1) ritualized media use 2) instrumental media use. It was discovered that we found Fantasy to be
instrumental because it was on a set schedule manipulated by the NFL and it was
for pleasure.
After it was established of the
importance Fantasy plays in a person’s life, we looked at the personal
toll. Baerg asked us to get more in depth
with Fantasy. Basically, he analyzed the
theories as to why we long to stay addicted to forms of communications for
Sunday all day: 1)To control a team 2)To escape reality 3)To brag about our
success. It’s obvious about our
obsession with Fantasy; we love football.
Fortunado took our love and put it
to the test by comparing ratings to teams that had the most desired Fantasy
teams. The Giants and Cowboys both were
1-0 going into week two and playing Sunday Night Football. Both teams had many desired players and
proved to be the highest rated night of football. There were many other instances proving why
teams with fewer players showed weaker weeks and vice versa. The study seemed pretty conclusive except
that there were outlying factors such as other sporting events on television.
While the overall study stated there was
some influence on the NFL by Fantasy Football, the study was not conducted long
enough to show solid support. Only
following statistics for one season limits the relationship accuracy. Although we are unsure how much effect is
played into the relationship, this still proves the importance of teamwork.
Going off the teamwork concept, Carroll
shares the story of the Negro League and the black journalists. After Smith and the Pittsburg Courier had successfully gotten Robinson into
professional baseball, there was still a doubt of sharing awareness and the
wonder of what was to come of the Negro Leagues. It was this all-star game that was aiding
this new found integration.
Smith and many other journalists began
working together to gain popularity.
They were taking ballots and trying to put effort to change the image of
the various leagues. The East West Classic
brought a huge fanbase, but as it grew in success, the Negro League struggled. It could be blamed that the drive of
integration in the journalism field, killed the acceptance of the Negro League.
After the West and East All Star game’s
successes, it seemed that the National Negro League was beginning to dwindle. It became a joke to people and was even
adding more females for desperate attention.
It slowly did as America was finally accepting this integration. As one journalist remarked, it was the end of
the Jim Crow era.
Basic lesson for this week’s blogs: teamwork is necessary for success.
Overall life lesson: Payton Manning is
ALWAYS worth watching. Fantasy and
alliance to team cannot change that.
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