In the Rodney Jones' poems victory and triumph or described
in a multitude of ways. A sense of triumph is felt when you are first in
running sprints at the end of practice or even when winning a sack race.
Although both sports are at different ends of the sports spectrum, the sense of
accomplishment and victory is universal in both sports.
In Klosterman’s essay “33” sports and culture are both
directly related as Klosterman relates the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles
Lakers to just about every aspect of our daily lives. Klosterman uses the L.A.
Lakers and Celtics as a force that divides yet unifies many people. Numerous
stereotypes are also described and related to the L.A. Lakers and Boston
Celtics such as racism.
Whenever I associate myself with a team, I am willing to
accept the stereotypes that go along with that team; however, they are not
always an accurate representation of me or anybody else that is associated with
the team. As described by Klosterman in his questions, there is a Laker way of
doing things and there is a Celtic way of doing things. Both ways of doing
things usually are entirely different. Most people that associate themselves
with the Lakers or Celtics are subconsciously emerging themselves in the
culture of either team based on political standing, racism, or even because of
legacy, which clearly has helped construct a stronger community and culture
based on those factors. Similarly, as described in Klosterman’s The End Of Practice, no matter what team
you are on, the end of practice is very much similar to most other team’s end
of practice because it is just the way it has developed as football culture.
Everyone who has been on a football team can relate to that. Finally, Klosterman’s Winning helps describe what kind of society we live in through an
irrelevant sport such as sack racing because winning is everything in our
society. We live in a Machiavelli, ends justifies the means winning culture and
unfortunately it gets many people in trouble such as the late Joe Paterno
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