Everybodys All American :: essays research papers

     Everybodys All-American is the story of a famous football coquetteer who becomes an overweight middle-aged has-been. Gavin "the greyish suggestion" Gray is a legendary college football player who marries his homecoming business leader sweetheart and embarks on a professional career full of difficulties. The Gray Ghost is a Louisiana football legend. There had never been a better, faster ball player, and everyone knows the hero is headed for pro football. To no ones surprise, Gavin marries his sweetheart, beauty pouffe Babs. He is a first-draft pick in the pros, as expected, and soon after that, the two begin their family. I was especially interested in this photo because I am, myself, a college athlete. This movie brought out the importance of having a manners and goals other than playing a professional sport. Too many untested athletes these days have unrealistic goals of going to the pros, while in actuality the chances of them doing so are next to impossible. Many athletes are in college just to play their sport, and do not care to the highest degree their academic carrying out. Eventually, the limelight get out fade and professional athletes will become has-beens left to reminisce about their glory days. Often in college, athletes will do just enough to get by and not care about what their academic performance means. Unfortunately, especially in some larger schools, preferential treatment for athletes does subsist among the faculty. This also gives athletes the advantage at the time, but hurts them in the long run. In the movie, the ideal marriage of Gavin and Babs begins to come apart, when Gavin cannot deal with the loss of the glory he had in his youth.