I believe that professional sports has had a major impact on our culture. Professional sports impacts everyone that is interested in that sport. Even if your just a spectator that doesn't even play the sport it can impact your life as an individual. With everything that can impact a culture in a major way there are negative and positive affects.

There are many positive affects of a professional sport in America. First off they can bring people from around the world together. Also the 1 percent of people that play the sport professionally make a lot of money from the sport. For every sport in the world there is people where that sport consumes their entire life even if they dont play it to make money from it. Other positive impacts that Pros have on our culture is it gives some people a person they can to look up too when maybe they dont have a person in their life that they can look up too already. 

There are also negative effects that professional sports can have on our culture. One main effect is people love the sport so much but maybe in the wrong way. There have been thousands of incidents of fans getting harassed and injured just from liking a different team. I do not believe that this is the way to go about problems like this at all. 

In Trevor Martins documentary " Schooled The Price of College Sports", (2013) he informs us that College athletes deserve to be paid even though they are amateurs. The director first asserts this idea with use of visuals and interviews, he then informs us with statistics of different salaries and expenses through out D1 colleges. To conclude the documentary he worked towards a solution for the main issues. His purpose of this film was to maybe get the attention of important people in order to expose the NCAA. He most likely had a specific audience in  mind in the process of making this film.

Jayson Poirier
My sports history: I have been playing baseball since I was 3 years old. I started out at tee-ball and have played on every level up till junior varsity for my High School. I played for various AAU teams and other travel competition teams. Also I have played Football every year since I was 7 years old. Basketball is another sport that I play and have been playing since I was in the 4th grade. There are many sports quotes that I like. My favorite one tho is "hard work feels good." And another is "If you're not first, you're last."

The article 'JJ Nelson: Adidas never offered deal' is about how NFL prospect JJ Nelson missed out on 100,000 dollars. Adidas has an endorsement deal for the top three fastest prospects in the 40 yard dash. Before the combine players have a chance to pick the newest Adidas cleat for use at the combine. JJ did exactly this before the combine. During the combine not only did Nelson run in the top 3 but he ran the fastest over all time. Nelson thought he was gonna be 100,000 $ richer. This was not the case. It turned out that you had to sign a full endursement  deal with Adidas BEFORE you ran 40.
When JJ was questioned about how he did not obtain the 100,000 dollars he stated that his time and him doing well came before the money did. He felt that his time was more important although he is still considered late round draft pick. He also claims that Adidas never gave him the option of signing a endorsement deal. At this time no one from the medias perspective is completely positive of what happened.  I personally do believe that the whole thing was just a misunderstanding. But also JJ Nelson does deserve the 100,000$ signing bonus because he was the fasted 40 yard dash runner in the new Adidas cleats.