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NFL Season Opener

Cowboys @ Buccaneers. Thursday Night Football. Sept. 9, 2021

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The NFL has released the Week 1 schedule for 2021 which begins Sept. 9.

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NFL PRESEASON WEEK 1 RESULTS

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Aug. 12-15, 2021

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News MAD LIBS

The news article I used for this assignment was "The NFL world blasted the officials for a controversial late holding call that had otherwise avoided all game". This article was about a late penalty called in a big game, which solidified a win for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Some people think this was a biased call and called it "rigged" due to the fact that the officials managing the game did not make any calls during the game except this one.

The article is written by Scott Davis. Scott Davis is a senior sports reporter for the Business Insider. Which is a valuable leaning news source with a primary target audience interested in football. The Insider has a wide audience and is a major news source with many categories within the news outlets. These categories are Business, Life, News, Reviews, and miscellaneous. The Article was published on the Insider website on January 24, 2021 at 7:21 pm. At this time it was directly after the game the article was posted.

However, it remains to be seen whether the author is biased or not. With the context of this article I found a big phrase that stated” While the call was correct, many in the NFL world criticized the officials for avoiding calls all game”. The call he is speaking about is a very minuscule hold on the receiver and when you watch Football games you will find much worse that is not called.

This shows that the officials chose the smallest little thing to solidify a big win and cost the Packers a trip to the Super bowl while doing it. The Buccaneers that season ended up winning the NFL championship and that leaves the big questions for packers fans still upset about this call. The author in this case I believe wanted the buccaneers to win due to his phrase stated before, and he talks bad on how the packers played all game. Seems to me like a Brady fan.

Other sources have presented the same information with different biases by the way they go about the situation and the tone in their writing.Overall this source is kind of on the Buccaneers side due to him degrading the Packers play during the game and overly agreeing with the officials for making this call. The article is limited but brings up bigger questions like, What would the score be if more penalties were called? Is the NFL really rigging games? What would happen if they did not call that controversial play?