Seven Deadly Sins Take 2

For the revision of this paper, I added a couple of details that I thought could make my paper a little stronger.  I also added a couple of examples to some of the sins.  With doing so, I feel that my paper is a little bit stronger then it was before.  I feel as if my revised paper has the detail it needs to be a good paper. 

All Seven Deadly Sins Committed at a Syracuse vs. Uconn Basketball game

            Syracuse and Uconn are one of the biggest rivals in college basketball today.  The Syracuse-Uconn games are one of the most exciting games for most of the Syracuse fans. Fans get to experience a game this exciting only two or three times a year. Jim Boeheim (Syracuse) and Jim Calhoun (Connecticut) are two of the best know coaches for college basketball and each year their team does great and goes far.   In 2009 the two teams shared a six over time game for the finals!  Nothing gets more exciting then that. With these games, the fans go crazy, and the coaches and players go insane.  It is the perfect place for all seven deadly sins to be committed.

            All the fans start rushing into the Carrier Dome way before the game even starts getting all their souvenirs and beers before they take their seats.  No one wants to get up and miss any part of the game.  It’s quite funny watching some people walk in with piles and piles of food and cups and cups of beer they already bought.  How can someone eat that much during a two hour period?    Some people just keep getting up to get more and more food.  It just isn’t necessary.

            Once the game finally gets started and all of the plays get onto the court the sins continue to grow.  The players start running back and fourth.  They can hear the fans in the stands yelling and cheering.  It gets them pumped up and ready to play their hearts out!  Those first year players get ready to show what they are made of.  Prove that they can be a part of their team.  Dion Waiters and Keita have proven what they can do, but can they continue to do it.  Scoop Jardine, Kris Joseph, and Brandon Triche come back to show they still have it! You can tell that they all have worked their butts off for this game.

            Each team continues to score right after each other through the first half of the game.  Jim Boeheim keeps switching all of his players because his team is just that good.  Five new players go in at a time.  Every time you hear the crowd cheer that they get to see someone else.  You can see and read the faces of each guy in the crowed.  The lust, the envy, and the gluttony are written all over it.  A guy carefully puts his ticket on a bag that is full of every other game ticket.  Hundreds filled that bag and they were all Syracuse.  You could tell that he had so many more at home just because of how he placed it in He has a Syracuse hat, a Syracuse sweatshirt, Syracuse pants, and even Syracuse shoes.  You can tell who his favorite team is.  The team that he loves, that he lusts.

            One guy is on the bleachers cheering every time Syracuse makes a basket.  You could tell that he used to play basket ball.  He was tall and slim, just like the guys out on the court.  His face just read that he wanted to be down on the court running with the guys and playing.  He looked like he was meant to be down there.  He envied all of the Syracuse and Uconn players.  That fan would have done anything to trade places with someone like Kris Joseph.  It makes you wonder what happened to him to make it so he couldn’t be down there playing.  He looked like he was a good player so it couldn’t have been that he wasn’t scouted.  Maybe he had an injury.  He could have torn his ACL or broken something else in his body.  At some points during the game he looked as if he was about to run down there and grab the ball to just start playing.

            A group of guys sat in their chairs still stuffing their faces from the beginning of the day.  It was as if they just came to the game to eat all the different kinds of food.  How can you not get sick after all of that food?  People walk in with salted pretzels, pizza, nachos, and ice cream.  It wouldn’t be surprising if some of them ran to the bathroom in the beginning of the game.  Then there were all the cup and plates around them.  They just piled up and those piles continued to grow as the game progressed.

            The game started coming to an end.  There was only 4 minutes left and the score was close.  The refs started calling everything.  Players were sitting down because of their four of five fowls.  Coach Boeheim and Coach Calhoun started jumping out of their seats yelling at the refs.  The players started getting more intense.  The wrath between the two teams filled the whole stadium.  It was too close to know what would win.  In the last two minutes, Syracuse started pulling away.  You could tell that the rest of the Uconn players that didn’t have to sit out yet weren’t as prepared for a game like this.  They didn’t work as hard in practices as Syracuse did, or even their top players.  They just looked like they were lazy.

            Syracuse was up by 5 with a minute left.  Each basket they made was an excitement and a party.  They were getting way too cocky and excited.  The pride they shared was at the wrong time.  This game was not over yet.  Uconn could still make a come back.  They still had a chance of winning.  With thirty seconds left Uconn was only down by two.  Uconn could win if Syracuse doesn’t make one final move.

            Syracuse ended up winning by 4 points.  The players couldn’t have been more ecstatic, but Boeheim and the other coaches were a little greedy.  They thought that they could have played better and won by a little more.  Syracuse could have won by at least 8 points that nice.  They started their 2010-2011 season with a win.

            This game was full of sins.  The lust, envy, and gluttony of the fans.  The Sloth, wrath, and pride of the players.  The greed and wrath of the Coaches.  Each game comes with new fans and teams, but all the same sins. All seven sins are committed at a basketball game.