The video Not Just a Game Power, Politics & American Sports: is a 2010 film documentary by Dave Zirin and Jeremy Earp. Its theme are based on Politics, Sports Media, Racism & Racial Identity (gender and African American, Sports, Women's History. This takes place within the 20th century. This video discusses how American sports have struggle politically from grade school to an adult causing many debates. Debates such as do sports and politics counteract with one another or support. Sports and politics are believed to not mix but sports and politics are a part of each other beyond nature.
Analysis/Evaluation
In the video Zirin tells an experiences he witness where politics did take place within sports. He went to Madison Square Garden to watch a basketball game but ended up watching something other than the game. He watched the mascot beat up someone who was Arab which was getting routed on by the Jumbotron. This was a disgusted that they chanted "USA! USA! USA!" while this poor man was getting beat up. Zirin also stated that sports cover politics in ways such as culture, society, beliefs/options, and history.
The video talks about the concept of winning is everything. Zirin mention how men will do whatever it takes to win such as taking steroids, playing hurt, and preforming is unsportsmanlike conduct. …show more content…
I never thought of how the government advertises the military using sports events. Is the reason they do this is because most people who attend sports event are fit and that is who the military is in search for enlisting? Or is it just for publicity of the branches? Sports events shouldn’t be a place where someone should sign up for a branch. I believe that an environment such as a sports event isn’t the right one to be making a drastic life discussion of enlisting because most men’s testosterone kick in at sports events. This doesn’t always give them the best decision
Analysis/Evaluation
In the video Zirin tells an experiences he witness where politics did take place within sports. He went to Madison Square Garden to watch a basketball game but ended up watching something other than the game. He watched the mascot beat up someone who was Arab which was getting routed on by the Jumbotron. This was a disgusted that they chanted "USA! USA! USA!" while this poor man was getting beat up. Zirin also stated that sports cover politics in ways such as culture, society, beliefs/options, and history.
The video talks about the concept of winning is everything. Zirin mention how men will do whatever it takes to win such as taking steroids, playing hurt, and preforming is unsportsmanlike conduct. …show more content…
I never thought of how the government advertises the military using sports events. Is the reason they do this is because most people who attend sports event are fit and that is who the military is in search for enlisting? Or is it just for publicity of the branches? Sports events shouldn’t be a place where someone should sign up for a branch. I believe that an environment such as a sports event isn’t the right one to be making a drastic life discussion of enlisting because most men’s testosterone kick in at sports events. This doesn’t always give them the best decision