Culture in Sport by Jacolby Spells

My Culture

jms00079 — 2024-10-01 17:04:50 UTC

I grew up in Broward County Florida playing 3 different sports. My culture expected me to be good at sports. It pushed me so hard that I became a division 1 athlete in football. I understand what it is like to be affected by sports and I also understand what it is like to have a culture that is strongly based in sports. Sports have given me a different life than many other people have where I'm from. I might not like it everyday but I would be in a much different place without football.

College Football Culture

jms00079 — 2024-10-01 17:22:46 UTC

College football culture deals with the culture of the school and the culture of the people in the school. Some of the biggest things that make a college culture are traditions, and a lot of these traditions come from college football (CFP staff, 2024). Lots of teams focus on volunteering, brotherhood, and supporting the values of their local community. Volunteering allows players to interact with the community and the cultures in the community. Here at WVU, football players often volunteer at events for the children's hospital. This shows support for the kids and sometimes it can provide hope for families in need. The players get to know the families and sometimes they learn life lessons in respect, gratefulness, and inspiration. Brotherhood brings all memes of a team together even if they are from different backgrounds. For example, someone from California will have a different view of culture than someone jamaica. It brings everyone together to meet a common goal. It also teaches how different people can be. College football supports the values of the local community by showcasing them in games and other media. For example, WVU supports coal miners by showcasing a giant block of coal before each game. The players from florida have no connection to this culture but being on the team teaches about how important it is to WVU.

Who Play Football?

jms00079 — 2024-10-01 17:31:14 UTC

Football is usually an all male sport, which is why brotherhood is so important to many teams. People from all over the world play this sport, even though it is only extremely popular in the USA. This focuses on college football but professional football is trying to expand across the world by playing games in other countries. Professional football needs to understand the culture of the other country before playing there so they don't run into any issues like the eagles and packers. These 2 teams have green colors and the places they played in brazil encourage people to not wear green. So, even though people from all over can play this game the organization needs to be better at understanding culture

Injury in College Football

jms00079 — 2024-10-01 17:41:01 UTC

Injuries are a common part of college football. They may be avoidable for some players but usually get hurt during their careers. Injuries can affect the mental health of the players because they have to change routine. They also have to go to rehab and treatment which is usually painful. It affects team culture because it changes how the player can volunteer, how they can impact the community, and how it can affect brotherhood. It also changes the future of the injured player because it can affect playing time and ability to come back to the game.

Mental Health

jms00079 — 2024-10-01 17:46:47 UTC

Being injured affects mental health and affects the way you think about the game. This means that people may never play the same again because of fear, confidence, or recovery time. It causes fear because a player won't want to get hurt again. It changes confidence because you'll be thinking about your injury too much and not be focused on the game. It can also ruin the momentum of the season. Recovery time affects someone because you can come back earlier or later then you are supposed to.

Brotherhood

jms00079 — 2024-10-02 17:20:55 UTC

Being injured affects brotherhood because it can change the personality of the person that's injured. The other players might want to help the person who hurt but they can't really do anything about it. It might make them feel alone because they have to change their whole routine. Also then injured people might not be able to hangout as much or do all the things they used to do with the team. It can affect team relationships in a negative way.

Volunteering

jms00079 — 2024-10-02 17:24:56 UTC

Being injured affects volunteering because some injuries might limit people from being able to attend events. For example, if the injury leads to a sickness then the player won't be able to volunteer around other people. This player could miss out on life changing events or lessons from the experiences. On the other hand being injured might help the player relate to some volunteering events. For example if there volunteering in a hospital and a kid sees that a player can recover it might give them hope for the future.

Community Impact

jms00079 — 2024-10-02 17:28:12 UTC

Being injured affects community impact because the players won't be able to represent the area as well as they could before. The players will also lack spirit or care for the community because they will be worried about getting better.

Future

jms00079 — 2024-10-02 17:30:52 UTC

Being injured can affect a player's future because they might not be able to play football again. You think everything will fall in place how you want it to. It can change everything, like being drafted, switching teams, or nil opportunities. Really being injured is so unpredictable that players never know what's going to happen

Interview 1

jms00079 — 2024-10-02 17:42:29 UTC

Interview 2

jms00079 — 2024-10-02 17:47:43 UTC

Interview 3

jms00079 — 2024-10-02 17:50:13 UTC

Interview 4

jms00079 — 2024-10-02 17:52:58 UTC

Recovery

jms00079 — 2024-10-02 17:58:27 UTC

Recovery deals with the amount of time it takes to get better and physical therapy. Different injuries take longer than others to fully heal. Some examples of physical therapy are strength work, flexibility, changes in nutrition, and a lot of check ups with the doctor. A lot of it is painful and takes a long time to finish. It makes players not want to come into the facility because they have to do a lot of extra work.

Who did I interview?

jms00079 — 2024-10-02 18:03:13 UTC

For this project I interviewed four people on my team which is the WVU football team. I choose people from different states and different backgrounds to see how different cultures can be. Everyone had a different response to the questions asked which was good because the questions were made to see how everyone's injury and outcome make them feel. I also asked about what they knew about culture and how different WVU is then what they used to be.

Questions

jms00079 — 2024-10-02 18:10:41 UTC

1.can you tell me what culture mean to you

2. do your culture make you feel like you had to play sports

3. why did you leave your hometown

4.what about your culture do you miss the most

5. do you feel like playing football makes your life easier or harder

6. do you feel like football causes a lot of mental stress

7. do you think WVU offer enough mental support

8. how have you ever been injured and did it change your outlook

9.do you think you're fully recovered from your injury

interview 1 summary

jms00079 — 2024-10-02 18:17:06 UTC

From the first interview he defined his culture as family. He said that he needed to play sports to be productive. Left his hometown to get a better life for himself. he also missed how close his family was. He said playing football makes his life easier and harder at times. It causes a lot of mental stress but he learned to manage it. WVU does offer enough mental support for him. He was injured and it taught him everything can change

interview 2

jms00079 — 2024-10-02 18:24:49 UTC

From the second interview he said his culture was the environment he grew up in and what he used to. I asked him if his culture made him feel like he had to play sports and it did. He left his hometown so he could go away and play college football. It also made his life harder because he had to do a lot of extra stuff like practice and sacrificing a lot of time. He said football also causes a lot of mental stress and he thinks WVU offers enough mental support. He got injured in highschool and have nerve damage in his elbow and hand and it didn't change his outlook. He didn't fully recover nerve damage something you can't fix

interview 3

jms00079 — 2024-10-02 18:30:56 UTC

What culture meant to him was personal programming, traditions and expectations. His culture made it feel like he had to play sports. He left his culture so he could be in a different environment and experience something different. What he missed the most was the environment at football games. He said football also causes a lot of mental stress everyday. The outlook of his injury did and didn't come out how he wanted it to. He also said he fully recovered from his injury by going to all his rehab and recovery.

interview 4

jms00079 — 2024-10-02 18:37:58 UTC

What culture meant to him was the way of life where he grew up and how he interacted and responded to people. His culture made it feel like he had to play football. It was a lot of pressure on him growing up in south Florida. Everybody plays some type of sport. He left his culture to get out of his comfort zone. He missed the food the most in his culture. Football made his life easier because he didn't have to work a 9-5. Football also causes a lot of mental stress on you and WVu offers enough mental support. He didn't think he recovered all the way from his injury

Source 1

jms00079 — 2024-10-02 18:46:26 UTC

The first article is Get-Right Day: NFL players detail their painful, gritty post-game recovery routines by Bishop. This article talks about the daily and weekly injuries that professional football players face. It doesn't talk about facts but it does interview NFL players as they get hurt and recover from injuries that happen during the game. One player was injured during a game and told the reporter “a pain scale of five this late into the season is basically healthy.” another player told the reporter he had a bruise the size of an orange on his leg but it should be fine. Later on a doctor told him that he should go to the hospital immediately but the team didn't let him go till after the game. These stories show how serious and how common injuries are in football. It also shows that the players often play through injuries when they should not.

Source 2

jms00079 — 2024-10-02 18:52:51 UTC

The second article is Common American football injuries by Saal. This article talks about the number of football injuries in America . it reports that over 50% of these injuries happen outside of games. It also reported that coaches' styles have an effect on the number of injuries that happen at practice. The most common type of injury is in the arms or legs.

Source 3

jms00079 — 2024-10-02 18:58:34 UTC

This article is tilted CARE Consortium: Return to play and risk of repeat concussion in football and was published by the NCAA. It talks about concussions and the repeat concussion rate in football. It says that over the past 15 years the return time after you get a concussion has gone from 7 days to 16 days. This means that players get more time to recover before touching the field again. It also talks about how the football league cares more about player safety then they used to. The article says that they expect concussion management to continue to improve

Source 4

jms00079 — 2024-10-02 19:05:44 UTC

The last article is called Return to play and risk of repeat concussion in collegiate football players: comparative analysis from the NCAA Concussion Study (1999-2001) and CARE Consortium (2014-2017). This article takes statistics approach to look at the number of concessions and how long it takes to see a repeat concussion. With the new rules for safety in 2017 only 1 repeat concussion in under 10 days was recorded. Most athletes stopped feeling symptoms of their concussion after 6 days. Also the average amount of time between a first concussion and a repeat concussion was 56 days in 2017 compared to 6 days in 2001. This shows a big jump and should continue to get larger as safety improves.

References

jms00079 — 2024-10-02 19:07:13 UTC

CFP Staff. (2024). How College Football Shapes Campus Life and Student Culture. CFP. https://www.collegefootballpoll.com/news/how-college-football-shapes-campus-life-and-student-culture/

Bishop, G. (2016). Get-Right Day: NFL players detail their painful, gritty post-game recovery routines. NFL SI. https://www.si.com/nfl/2016/12/04/nfl-injuries-recovery-allen-robinson-justin-forsett-cameron-jordan-ryan-harris

Saal, J. (1991). Common American football injuries. NIH. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1947533/

NCAA. (2024). CARE Consortium: Return to play and risk of repeat concussion in football. NCAA.org. https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2019/5/15/care-consortium-return-to-play-and-risk-of-repeat-concussion-in-football.aspx#:~:text=Among%20701%20concussed%20CARE%20student,days%20of%20the%20first%20injury.

McCrea, M., et al. (2020). Return to play and risk of repeat concussion in collegiate football players: comparative analysis from the NCAA Concussion Study (1999-2001) and CARE Consortium (2014-2017). Sports medicine journal. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31036562/#:~:text=The%20average%20interval%20between%20first,conservatively%20than%2015%20years%20ago.