The Most Popular Sport Of Football In America

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Football has been in America since 1869, it started of new and people enjoyed watching and playing it. After time Football had caught the eye of many Americans and is now the most popular sport in America. Football is a mental game just as much as physical game. It requires discipline, awareness and being conditioned. Lots of people watch the sport but don’t know exactly how to play or what the rules are. What those people will be informed about is how to play and what the rules are for this game. The objective of football is to get the ball from one side of the field to another without being tackled. Football is composed of two opposing teams, of eleven players. Both teams try to move the ball down the field to score a points by getting in to the end zone (which is called a touchdown) guarded by the defending team. Points are…show more content…
Another way of scoring is to kick a field goal. Kicking a field goal is when you kick the football between the goal post, which would be three points. During a football game the teams are split between Offence and Defence. The offencive team is the team with possession of the ball, their objective is to score. They must gain at least ten yards in four tries if not than the other team gets the ball and you are now defence. If it is fourth and long then the offencive team has a choice to punt the ball down field to get the ball away from their end zone. The defensive team is the team without possession of the ball, their objective is to keep the offence from scoring. They can stop the offence from scoring in a few ways. The first way is by interception. An interception is when the ball is thrown on offence and the defence catches the ball in this case you can run towards their end zone. Another way they can stop the offence from scoring is a

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