THE ONION

The Onion is a newspaper which takes real stories and real events and mocks them. By looking over the website several articles caught my eye. The article that was most interesting to me was, “Troy Polamalu All Over Orthopedic Clinic”, which is mocking the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Safety Troy Polamalu. Polamalu is one of the best safety’s in the NFL and he is know as being all over the field hitting players really hard causing some injuries to players. Recently Polamalu has suffered a leg injury and

is attending physical therapy to recuperate. This

article achieves its effect by mocking Polamalu’s ability of being all over the place, saying he is all over the clinic causing havoc, knocking over patients and injuring others. This article is funny because even though he is injured and is on crutches he is still a

ble to cause as much havoc in a clinic then on a field.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/troy_polamalu_all_over

“Big Screen is Too Big”

Dallas- Cowboys Stadium, home of NFL’s Dallas cowboys is an estimate $1.2 billion doll

ars project. This stadium is high tech, with features never seen before. In a billion dollars stadium everything should be perfect.

On September 20, 2009 on Sunday Night Football, the Dallas cowboys opened their new stadium against their rivals the New York Giants. Entering the stadium you are amazed

on all the new feature this stadium has brought but, not as shocked as everybody stares on what is hanging over the middle of the field. An enormous screen,

measuring from the 20- yard line of the field to the other 20- yard line, measuring in length of 60 yards. The screen is so big, that when you are looking at it your head has to move from left to right just too see everything that is happening.

“I built this stadium for the fans” owner Jerry Jones said to reporters “Everything you can imagine that can be in a stadium is in this stadium. There is no flaw, everything is perfect.”

I guess when the big screen was installed, Jerry didn’t think how it can affect the view of the field. The screen is so big, that for the fans who are sitting on the upper levels, it is blocking their view of the field. “I didn’t pay $200 to see the game off a 60-yard screen” mention a fan of the Dallas Cowboys “I came to see the game live. I guess Jerry big ego had to create such a large screen that he didn’t think about the fans. This stadium was supposed to be for the fans.”

The quotes are correct, “everything is bigger in Texas.”