In this article, the author focuses on explaining the role London plays to the NFL. The author starts off his article by appealing to logos when he states Europe's past role didn't last long because it "became increasingly discriminating as the years passed." While still appealing to logos, the author begins to roll into his article by stating facts about only London's role to the NFL. He does this to set up his focal point, or claim so that the audience knows what the article will mostly be about. The purpose of this article was to show a relationship between London and the NFL to show people that football is becoming more international. This year, London will be hosting four NFL games, which will be a new record. Along with London hosting more games, the games they will be hosting are more serious and have more of an impact than years past. London is becoming so involved that some people think it would be a good idea for them to have their own team. Throughout the article, the author mainly focuses on appeals to logos and ethos. He appeals to logos by using different stats and facts. For example, in paragraph five of the article, the author states that out of the 20 games London has hosted, only one game has failed to sell out. He also goes to state that the United Kingdom has a fan base at 13 million people. The author makes sure to appeal to logos so that he will have direct facts to support his argument. Though there was some logos, the majority of this article had appeals to ethos. There was a lot of dialogue from coaches, owners, and executive figures of the NFL organization. The dialogue captured the thoughts of people who work with and are involved with the NFL everyday. This makes the author's work more credible because the audience knows that what they are reading is true because of the people it is coming from. Also when the author uses the example of this Sunday's game between the Rams and Cardinals, that is an appeal to ethics because it gives the audience a current example to rely on. The author explains that this game is critical as it will determine which team will hold the lead in the NFC West. Throughout the article , the author uses a didactic, objective tone to get a point across. His article was mostly just straight facts with input from other people about the situation. He makes sure to keep his opinion out of it, and keeps the article very professional and straight to the point by using a polysyballic and elegant word choice. In conclusion, the audience was able to read a factual article about what the future holds for London in the NFL.. I believe the author's goal of this passage was to inform football lovers about what the NFL thinks about behind the scenes. Author, Sam Farmer, successfully does this by appealing to ethos and logos with a didactic and objective tone. Check out the article at Los Angeles Times.
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