05-19-2024, 08:34 PM
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19. Your team has announced that they will be laying ground on a new stadium next season. What additions would you like to see included in it. (Written Task)
The things that I really like in a stadium are: good seating, good food and plenty of bathrooms. The most important thing is good seating. I feel like so many stadiums now a days try to fit as many people into a tight space as they can. They use cheap seats and everyone is on top of each other. The experience is vastly different in a box, where you have the option to walk around and still watch the game. Box seating also covers the other two important things of food and bathrooms. I understand the need to be practical and that it just can't all be box seating, but having possibly multiple levels of box seating would be cool. In a new stadium, I would have outside resturants and fast food chains come into the stadium. I feel like stadium food is always way too expensive and not worth what you pay for. If I was able to bring in a lot of outside vendors and be able to take a healthy portion of the profit, I believe that would be reasonable to do. Last thing is bathrooms. Simple enough, make sure that there are bathrooms available in every section. It is the worst thing to go to a game and miss half the game because you are either waiting in line for one bathroom or you have to walk around the entire stadium to get to the one bathroom.
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21. Written Option: If your player had a show starring them, what would the plot be?
My player would probably be in a survival show. He is a big offensive lineman that can trace his linage back to ancient German berserkers. I think that the survival show that he would be a part off would be one of those celebrity shows where they compete against each other to see how long they would be able to last out in the wilderness with nothing but the backpack that they have on their back. If we had the choice of location, I think that my player would definitely go to somewhere with a mountain landscape in the cold. Likely locations would be in Alaska or deep in the Black Forest in Germany. Ideally the gameshow would be against other professional athletes, I do not think it would be fair for him to compete against movie or other pop stars.
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28. Football is a game that has been going on for a while, loved by fans all over. But what if you were able to make some rule changes? Talk us through your new version of football, and what would be different and why? (Written Task)
I have always been a football fan. I have watched football since I was a little kid and I have seen it change it a lot of ways. It is crazy in my opinion to see how much the rules of the game have affected the overall strategy. It used to be a much more balanced game. There would be an even balance of running the ball as well as throwing the ball. Even amongst those strategies there was balance. Today, I feel like the game has become boring because of rules that have been established to do whatever is necessary to prevent injury to the quarterback and wide receivers. I think that the referees have to go back to a style of football that allows for the players to play more. I do not mean to say that I think that everything should go unchecked. But the ruffing the passer and pass interference calls that we see today are out of control. You see this happen with other sports, like basketball and soccer, where the athletes stop playing the game and just try to draw fouls to get an advantage. It leads to boring games and a lack of interest in the fans. If the referees called less roughing the passer and less pass interference that heavily favors the wide receiver, I think that would be better for the game. I like what the NFL did with the new kick off rules, I think that it will add a more valuable benefit to the game. I think that the last thing that I would do, is make it more advantageous for teams to go for 2 points after scoring a touchdown. I think that it would be cool to increase the number of points to 3 and make them start at the opponents 10 yard line.
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27. Imagine your current position was not available to be picked when you created your player. What other position would you have picked, and why? (Written Task)
I think that the only other positions that I would have picked is Kicker. I am a realist. I know that there are a lot of people in the league that are more dedicated to it and are willing to put in a lot of extra work doing jobs, that I just don't have the time for. As a rookie, I just want to have a positive impact on my team and enjoy my time while I am here. So I specifically targeted a position that I believe will be easy to manage as I get used to the league and that is in heavy supply. From what I can tell the OL was definitely more needed than the kickers for teams, but I think that kickers were another position that could have an impact if the person was able to do the weekly tasks and be able to progress their player. It is very clear to me that more favorable positions like QB, RB, WR or DB have to have people willing and able to jobs in the league so that they can earn money to pay for training and equipment. It doesn't seem like I have to do that in order for me to have a positive impact on my team in the OL or Kicker positions.
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The things that I really like in a stadium are: good seating, good food and plenty of bathrooms. The most important thing is good seating. I feel like so many stadiums now a days try to fit as many people into a tight space as they can. They use cheap seats and everyone is on top of each other. The experience is vastly different in a box, where you have the option to walk around and still watch the game. Box seating also covers the other two important things of food and bathrooms. I understand the need to be practical and that it just can't all be box seating, but having possibly multiple levels of box seating would be cool. In a new stadium, I would have outside resturants and fast food chains come into the stadium. I feel like stadium food is always way too expensive and not worth what you pay for. If I was able to bring in a lot of outside vendors and be able to take a healthy portion of the profit, I believe that would be reasonable to do. Last thing is bathrooms. Simple enough, make sure that there are bathrooms available in every section. It is the worst thing to go to a game and miss half the game because you are either waiting in line for one bathroom or you have to walk around the entire stadium to get to the one bathroom.
(264 words)
21. Written Option: If your player had a show starring them, what would the plot be?
My player would probably be in a survival show. He is a big offensive lineman that can trace his linage back to ancient German berserkers. I think that the survival show that he would be a part off would be one of those celebrity shows where they compete against each other to see how long they would be able to last out in the wilderness with nothing but the backpack that they have on their back. If we had the choice of location, I think that my player would definitely go to somewhere with a mountain landscape in the cold. Likely locations would be in Alaska or deep in the Black Forest in Germany. Ideally the gameshow would be against other professional athletes, I do not think it would be fair for him to compete against movie or other pop stars.
(158 words)
28. Football is a game that has been going on for a while, loved by fans all over. But what if you were able to make some rule changes? Talk us through your new version of football, and what would be different and why? (Written Task)
I have always been a football fan. I have watched football since I was a little kid and I have seen it change it a lot of ways. It is crazy in my opinion to see how much the rules of the game have affected the overall strategy. It used to be a much more balanced game. There would be an even balance of running the ball as well as throwing the ball. Even amongst those strategies there was balance. Today, I feel like the game has become boring because of rules that have been established to do whatever is necessary to prevent injury to the quarterback and wide receivers. I think that the referees have to go back to a style of football that allows for the players to play more. I do not mean to say that I think that everything should go unchecked. But the ruffing the passer and pass interference calls that we see today are out of control. You see this happen with other sports, like basketball and soccer, where the athletes stop playing the game and just try to draw fouls to get an advantage. It leads to boring games and a lack of interest in the fans. If the referees called less roughing the passer and less pass interference that heavily favors the wide receiver, I think that would be better for the game. I like what the NFL did with the new kick off rules, I think that it will add a more valuable benefit to the game. I think that the last thing that I would do, is make it more advantageous for teams to go for 2 points after scoring a touchdown. I think that it would be cool to increase the number of points to 3 and make them start at the opponents 10 yard line.
(294 words)
27. Imagine your current position was not available to be picked when you created your player. What other position would you have picked, and why? (Written Task)
I think that the only other positions that I would have picked is Kicker. I am a realist. I know that there are a lot of people in the league that are more dedicated to it and are willing to put in a lot of extra work doing jobs, that I just don't have the time for. As a rookie, I just want to have a positive impact on my team and enjoy my time while I am here. So I specifically targeted a position that I believe will be easy to manage as I get used to the league and that is in heavy supply. From what I can tell the OL was definitely more needed than the kickers for teams, but I think that kickers were another position that could have an impact if the person was able to do the weekly tasks and be able to progress their player. It is very clear to me that more favorable positions like QB, RB, WR or DB have to have people willing and able to jobs in the league so that they can earn money to pay for training and equipment. It doesn't seem like I have to do that in order for me to have a positive impact on my team in the OL or Kicker positions.
(231 words)