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As this class comes to an end, I have really learned a lot. I have never taken an english class like this one and I guess I'm used to the traditional writing on certain topics and having no choice but to write about stuff that doesn't interest me. This class turned out being in a way kind of fun. (Not that school is fun in any way, but you get my point.) I got to write about stuff that interested me, my favorite sports teams, what was on my mind, letting my emotions come through in my pieces.

I have never written more then three pages for a paper so when i read how we would be working on a 5,000 word essay I didn't know if I could even do it. When we wrote the two other shorter pieces that were about 2,000 words each it actually was pretty easy. I just sat down and would just write until I couldn't think of what else to put it in because it is your own writing and ideas. You're telling the audience your perspective on the topic and how you feel about it. When it came to the final paper, I knew exactly what I wanted to write about and had a good feeling about it. I wrote about an athlete who had caught my interest, so i tried to portray that for other people to read, and I wound up getting a good grade on it.

This was one of the more interesting english classes I have taken in my college career. I enjoyed reading different sports articles and writing my own like I was writing in a journal or a newspaper. It was never a hassle or hard work because it was all on what I wanted to talk about. Some of the articles we read in class I did actually like reading such as the article on Bill Parcells and Jon Cheney. They were both very interesting and I did connect with both of those pieces. Overall, I think this class made me a better writer and I wish more english classes were like this one.

Are the Bills serious?

This question has been going on for years. Are the Buffalo Bills a respectable team or have they just got on a hot streak for a few games just to sizzle out and fade away. For a team that has not won anything, not even come in first place in one of the NFL's hardest division it is hard to see them being contenders for a long time. They have good young players such as Trent Edwards and Lynch,. and some good defensive players but they just seem to never put it together.

At the start of the season it looked as though the Bills would run away with this division. They started off going 5-1! AS the Jets and Pats were still adjusting to their new quarterbacks and the Dolphins just getting used to a new team altogether, their was a part of me that really wondered that the Bills might just win out this year. That all changed, however, when the Jets defeated them and started this downfall spiral effect that has gotten to the point of this past Sunday, losing to the miserable 49ers.

This wraps up the Bills season pretty much, they can drop 50 points on the drop of a hat like they did against the Kansas City Chiefs, or struggle on offense like they did against San Francisco. you never know what Bills offense is going to show up and this coming weekend might be their final chance to salvage the season. For the long run, yes I do see the Bills becoming a good up and coming team, to be honest they might just need a new coach because the team has talent. In the end they just really need to put something together, a legit season and beat divisional opponents to really give me a scare in the AFC East.

Ooo how I saw this coming

I was not surprised as I watched my Jets crumble before the Broncos this Sunday like a piece of paper is crumbled under some one's foot. As soon as those announcers jumped on the Jets bandwagon like everyone else these days, these phony Jet fans, I was wondering to myself I don't have a good feeling about this game. Rich Gannon a one time wonder in the NFL with the Raiders, O the Raiders how far they have fallen. Anyway, Gannon went on and on O the Jets have an advantage in the run game, Brett Farve has the advantage in the passing game, the Jets overall have the advantage because of the weather conditions. I'm sorry but last time I checked these are all professional football players. I am pretty sure that they have all played in the rain at some point in their career or have been cold. Sorry Rich, you don't make a very strong argument as Jake Cutler who I was very impressed with, picked apart the Jets defense like he knew exactly what play was coming.

Now being on the positive side, the Jets are still in first place. They didn't really lose that much ground because the Patriots lost. This means the Jets still remain one game ahead of both the Pats and the Dolphins. To be honest, I'm more scared of the Dolphins just coming out of nowhere and taking the playoffs right out of the Jets hands. New York has a pretty easy schedule coming up and should win out for the remainder of the season. They got Seattle and San Francisco which are two very beatable teams and then you got the Bills and the last game of the season which I shall be attending against the Dolphins. Those last two games are important because they are within the division.

All in all I really couldn't ask for a better season by the Jets. I have been very positive, very upbeat. If the Jets win and still don't make the playoffs because other teams just had better records I really can't complain. They can really determine their own destiny now, and they are really going to have to step it up.

What is with these "athletes?"

OK let me get this straight. You get paid millions upon millions of dollars to play a sport. A game that you love. you have fans, people wearing your jersey everywhere, signing autographs. You are living every child's dream. And then, you go and shot yourself in the leg, or beat up your body guard, or get busted for drugs or whatever is is that these people do. I don't understand I really don't and I've given up trying to figure it out. Why are some athletes just straight up idiots. First with Pacman Jones. Can this guy please just leave. Just leave and never come back "Adam" as you would like to be called. Which by the way he wanted to use his real name because he thought "Pacman" was filled with a bad image, yea their you go good job. How many chances is this clown going to get? First off, to be honest he's really not even all that good so I don't know why teams are begging to get him. Secondly, he's had numerous off the field altercations with the law, and was thrown out for an entire year. You would think that would be enough to maybe get it through his head that I shouldn't screw up again. Yet goes about it and gets himself another suspension.

In recent news, Plaxico Burress has shot HIMSELF in the leg. I repeat, HIMSELFin the leg. This just made me laugh when I first heard it. Not only was he stupid enough to carry around a weapon into a night club, but to then have then gun go off in his pants is behind me. Why in the first place are you going places where you needed a loaded gun? Don't you have body guards and security surrounding you? I guess everyone needs to be a thug once in a while. He needed protection is what I'm sure hell testify in court and hell probably get off free of charges which is what usually happens to these athletes. Their not athletes at all, their above the law who have money, fame to their advantage.

I guess my point is why do players do these things. Just why? You have everything you want in life and have been blessed with unfair talent that Me and millions of other ordinary people wish we had. Why can't you just put the team before yourself for once and stop being selfish. You have a job, a carer in sports and I suggest to these athletes if they want to continue they better get their heads out of their ass.