American football is an immensely popular sport in the US, but it's also growing in popularity in Europe. The NFL season starts today with the Kansas City Chiefs at home to the Baltimore Ravens, so to celebrate and introduce new folks to the sport, we want you to create a beginner's guide to understanding American football.
Who are the biggest teams and players? What's a touchdown? Why does play stop and start so frequently? What are some notable moments in history? Consider all these questions and more as you create your guide explaining exactly what American football is and how it works. Video and written guides are welcome!
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yan574369/30/2024
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The American Football is a sport born in the XIX Century and it is an adaptation of Rugby, and maybe it should be called American Rugby that makes a lot more sense. But for the basics I think won't be hard to understand.
The Teams
Like many similar sports it is a competition between two teams, in American Football it is composed of 11 players for each team. Each team will have a role in each play, one team will have the ball and they will be in offensive position and will try to make a point while the other team will be in defensive position and will try to prevent the other team from scoring. The teams have a formation that is made by the players that have specific functions. The formation will change depending on the role that the team has in the moment, when it is on the offensive side or when it is on the defensive side.
For note getting in so deep with the explanation with this explanation you can see this image above to follow the explanation. Both teams will form one line each that will face each other, while the rest of the team will be around and in the back of this line. The Offensive side, the center position will have the ball and when the game starts will pass the ball to the quarterback that will pass the ball to another player in your team, when this happens the defensive side will make the possible to block the other players and try to stop the other team from advancing.
To understand how a point is made you have to understand how the field works and how it is divided. It is a 100 yards long field (Don’t ask me why 100 yards and not 100 meters, it is a sport called football and you play it with your hands so they don’t use a logical measurement system). And it is subdivided in 10 zones with 10 yards long with and the two end sides with 10 yards as well that aren’t included in the official measurement.
The game will start and the middle and the offense will try to arrive in the end of the opponents half to score 1 point. The offensive team will have 4 tentatives to reach the end, these tentatives are called Downs, and the down will end with the point or if the player with the ball is stopped/blocked, when the player is blocked the next down will start in the zone the player was blocked. When the player with the ball is able to reach the end of the field it is a touchdown and the team scores 6 points.
After a score both team will change their roles, now the offense team will play as defense and the defense team will play as offense. And the game start again.
There are two ways to stop the offense team from score, when happen all 4 downs and the offense team didn’t reach the end or when the player with the ball loses the ball, when this happen the defense team becomes automatically offense and will try to score.
The field goals is another way to score, only 3 points this time, it isn’t so common during the play but it can be useful sometime if used strategically.
End of the game an overtime
Like you should have suspected the game ends after the time runs out, the time is split in 4 quarters of 15 minutes each. And after this 4 quarters ends and the game is on a tie there will be an overtime of 10 minutes to untie the game and decide the winner of the play.
Biggest Teams
I'm going to take two approaches here, one based on the number of titles and the other on the value of the franchise according to Forbes
The sport can be resumed to try to reach the other side of the camp with the ball. This is the main objective and this is the most important thing to know. But after that you should know some rules, how each team works in some important positions and ways to score. To keep it simple I will be explaining the rules that are current in the NFL championship but there is some variation especially in university and school games
To start the explanation it's important to explain the beginner of the game, both teams will have 11 players on each side but one team will try to reach the other end of the field while the other will try to stop this team, so each match of the game the teams are divided in attack and defence. The attack team will have 4 quarters to try to reach the end, and the quarter ends if the player with the ball is stopped. If this player loses the ball both teams change the position and start another round.
When a player reaches the end of the field it is scored 6 points to his team, after that his team will become the defence. They can also increase the score by 1 by making a goal or making a 2 point conversation that is a small rematch to try score 2 more points. There is another way to make points in the game, when the team doesn't believe they will be able to make it to the end of the field they can choose to make a goal kick and if they succeed they will score 3 points. And finally it is the safety that is the way the defence scores and this happens when the offence player is intercepted in its own end zone making a score of two for the defence team.
And the games ends after 1 hour that is divided in 4 times of 15 minutes, and if the play finish with a tie will have the overtime of 10 minutes for the tiebreaker
Gaypengwing 🔜 Ren Faire Uk9/23/2024
I grew up watching the Super Bowl every year with my father and so I have an understanding of the game prior but when friends have asked me about it, as silly as it sounds, I have been able to give them a basic understanding of it through glee. A show which I have also grown up loving.
Specifically when Kurt joins the football team in episode 4 of the first season and in episode eleven of season 2 where the football team join the glee club. It’s by no means perfect but afterwards they have really been able to end the game and gotten quite invested.
Braulio M Lara 🔹9/22/2024
Won$5
FOOTBALL SCORING
HOW WORK THE FOOTBALL..?
This is a short explanation about how work the football in basis just a introduction to this amazing sport
Football (or american Football ) is a sport played by 2 teams of 11 players on a 120-yard, rectangular field with goal lines on each end.
A football is an oval-like inflated ball usually made of cowhide or rubber or Synthetic plastic
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THE OFFENSE
The offense, or the team with control of the ball, attempts to advance the ball down the field by running or passing the ball, while the opposing team aims to stop their advance and tries to take control of the ball that is some kind of
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE
The offense must advance at least 10 yards in four downs, or plays, or else they turn over the football to the opposing team; if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs.
THE OBJECTIVES
The object of the game is for one team to outscore the other. This is accomplished by advancing the football down the field and scoring as many points as possible.
Scoring can occur in the form of a touchdown, extra point conversion, two-point conversion, field goal, or safety.
THE TIMMING
The time on the clock for a football game is 60 minutes. The game is divided into two halves of 30 minutes and four quarters of 15 minutes.
The average duration of a football game is normally three hours.
This is just a basic explanation
Toretto 709/16/2024
American Football is a team sport played on a rectangular field with goalsports at each end. understand the basic objective is to score point, the field dimension and marking, teams and position Offense and Defense, gameplay, penalties, Key Rules, Game duration, Strategy, and also Observe the match
