The National Football League (NFL) averages 290 million television viewers a week, four times the population of the United Kingdom. Football has become a massive part of society, whether it is at home watching the game on television or playing football in school. It is a worldwide culture that keeps people active, entertained, and socially occupied, all while creating multiple jobs. Football was invented in 1879 by Walter Camp; he attended Yale from 1876 to 1882 and was head advisory football coach from 1888 to 1912. Camp helped evolve the rules of the game away from rugby and soccer into the rules of American Football as they are known today. An influence to Walter Camp’s invention was William Ellis who was the first person noted for picking up the ball during a soccer game and running with it. From that point, Camp began to assess the rules of football. Football is an fairly understandable sport; one can begin learning the aspects of catching and walking with a football at around the age of two. About 25 years ago, the National football Association did not have the reputation it has today, with the continuous rise of sports television packages, the release of video games, and the invention of the internet perpetuating the regional growth across the United States, and inevitably, the world. The broadcasts began in 1939 with the first pro football game airing on television as network executives began to realize the advertisement could potentially generate substantial profits. Networks began broadcasting football once a week and it quickly became a product turning into their top income stream. By this time, football was given a huge amount of global exposure, eventually increasing with international broadcasts and internet media. ... ... middle of paper ... ...reated by the sport franchise includes several other elements that the game itself, though it is the core focus of the industry (Bleacher Report). Football provides the American people an event to look forward to. It keeps people on the edges of their seats, wondering what will happen next. When football was first invented, people would not think it would turn into a professional sport. At its creation, their football gear was nothing but leather helmets, shoulder pads, pants, and boot like shoes. I think as of now, this sport will continue to grow in popularity as the years go by. Football will still be a major part of our culture in years to come due to the type of passion that never dies down, it is ubiquitous. The economics of the industry will grow, as well as the culture celebrating the sport, and the global impact will never cease to entertain the population.
The National Football League is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference and the American Football Conference. The NFL was founded in 1920s and ever since then has been a representative of the "All-American, Family Entertainment, Sport". Football is played from kids starting at age five to adulthood and is very popular throughout different races and social classes. With the increase of people playing football, came the increase of the sports related injuries.
Now don’t be confused on the word football, since I am not talking about “soccer” at all. Football which is otherwise known as the NFL or the National Football League, is an American based sport that involves thirty-two teams from cities all over the country that compete against each other through strategy and strength in order to reach one goal; to win the Super Bowl.
I. Attention Getter: Football, specifically the NFL, is the most watched sport in America. It attracts an audience by being a game of high intensity and big plays. But the harsh reality of football is the dangerous head injuries.
American football has always been a part of history and culture in America, and watching American football has defined who an American is today. First, Americans have always had a love in competitive sports, and their desire to win is part of the history in America. For example, their value of western expansionism in the early 19th century was their ambition and the desire to become big and win over other countries, and the space race against the Soviet Union was a race of will and determination to become technologically advanced in space exploration at the brink of the Cold War. This
Football has been in the making for over 150 years. The foundation of football comes from rugby, a British sport and also incorporates war tactics. In the beginning, the game was unorganized because there were few rules and it was new to the players. But by the end of the Civil War, football had taken on a whole new look; it started to become the modern version that we are familiar with today (Kennedy 7-9). The development of football has changed the culture because, “Every town in America has at least one high school, football team that draws a big crowd” (Buckley 4). Therefore, without fall football, high school students and even parents would have nothing to do on Friday nights. Football games have added to the world of entertainment and continue to grow as a place for social gathering.
The National Football League (NFL) has been a staple on Sunday’s in America homes for quiet sometime. It provides excitement and generates billion’s of dollars, but what I told you that this league may lose viewers or even not exist in a few years. The NFL is a great brand, but what is potentially going up against may have you scratching your head as a parent to let your child even take a snap early in his football career if not taken care of.
Balloon was similar to rugby. Despite being created by universities, it was subsequently banned from all campuses in the early 1860’s after it was deemed too violent. By the late 1860’s, after several new regulations and advancements the game found its way back on several major universities around the country. However it was not until the 1870’s that representatives from divergent universities got together and wrote down a unified set of intercollegiate rules. In the late 1880’s Princeton players introduced the modern football snap, forever separating american football from rugby. Some other major rule changes of this time period include, the reduction of field size to 110 yards and the adoption of modern scoring techniques. Still, it wasn’t until Walter Camp, who is commonly referred to as the father of American football, came around that modern football was
Walking through the halls of school,grocery stores or at work I can't help to notice all the football teams backpack’s,tee’s and hats but why is this? Is Football so exciting to watch or since football has been around for a long time does it gives a certain unity to have a team. As well as gambling and the fantasy football leagues that might have the people on there feet. Football gives the people excitement because it moves quickly and requires the hard-hitting contact of the defensive line plus the precision skills and speed of the quarterback and running backs. Football combines what people like about other sports like the hitting of boxing, precision passing of basketball also the camaraderie of baseball. Some people enjoy football because
Football is said to have originated from the Han Dynasty in China, from around two or three B.C. Although there is no specific creator of Football, there is evidence that the Chinese ‘dribbled’ balls made of various different animal skins filled with light-weight materials. After dribbling the ball, they were to kick the ball into a small net. Along with being a leisure activity for the ancient Chinese, evidence has been found that they also used it for training their vast army, the only difference in the training was the height of the nets. The balls were to be kicked into a net that was thirty feet or higher off the ground in order to make the Chinese army ready to move and also to make them stronger in the legs. Since the Chinese played ‘Football’ there have been many advancements in the game around the world and the rules have also changed greatly.
Honestly, I’ll come right out and admit that I have never been a huge fan of football. Let’s just say watching sweaty men hurling themselves onto one another over a simple piece of leather for the pure sake of entertainment was not high on the list of how I wanted to spend my time. It did not help the fact that the only exposure I had ever had with the sport was after opening the doors of Phase Three during cross country season. Day after day, I was forced to push my way through clusters of teenage guys reeking with a putrid stench of dried sweat, body odor, and grass stains all wafting together; the smell in itself was enough to make anyone with a nose’s eyes water. Therefore, I never quite understood the hype of football games and why many Americans always seem so engrossed and captivated by them.
American Football, in my opinion, represents the mass majority of our society. Though I am not a fan of the game, it is exciting to watch Super bowl Sunday. Because of my background, I was more accustomed to Soccer which is consider a version of Football. I would agree that American Football is a metaphor of the US. For example, begin a conversation in the grocery store and merely states what you think about that game last night? This would strike an immediate conversation until you out the door. Before you realize, you may get an invite to a tailgate party or game night that’s if you are on the same team. Though football plays a major role in business and many other social aspects. It represents the strength of this country, as well unifying
In the modern day United States the sport American football has become not only entertainment but also a tradition whether it’s watching the BCS college championship or watching the super bowl with the family. The sport of American football is unique to the United States and has grown and became iconic over the years and has become a part of many Americans lives. American Football was made in 1869 and was modeled after the sport of rugby. They took the basics of rugby and changed it to make it fit better for them. The game has changed over the years but it also affected many Americans as the tradition of Monday Night football has begun. The game has had problems with the United States government as it was said to be too dangerous to play, this lead to an upgrade in the equipment and they tried very hard to make the equipment well ensuring player safety throughout the sport.
Football has been a very important part of American culture especially in the last 50 years. Football is now the most followed by sport in America. There are many different levels that football is played. For example, there is professional, semi-pro, college, high school and pop warner. Fans from all over are passionate at each level of football. Professional and college football are by far the most popular and contains the biggest fan base. It can easily be argued that high school football has some of the most passionate fans.
Football has been around since forever. The greek played a game similar to football called episkyros and the roman game called harpastum. And as the years past by people from all over started creating there own version of football. There
Mary Bellis, the author of “History of Football” provides a lot of background information about the sport of football. She states that the sport of football was developed and modeled after the game of rugby and began in the year 1879. Bellis also states that Walter Camp created rules to change the rugby and soccer into American football. She explains that Walter Camp was responsible for many rule changes to the sports of rugby and soccer which lead to the creation of American football. Mary Bellis then brings up some of the rules Walter camp created such as the line of scrimmage and the creation of certain positions such as quarterback (Bellis, N/A). Marc Bona, The author of “How Arena Football was created, why it endures: A look at Jim Foster’s invention”, also looks at the history of how Arena Football got its start. Bona states that Jim Foster thought of the idea in the year 1981 when he was at indoor soccer game. According to Bona, Jim Foster thought that since soccer could be played indoors so could football. Bona states that Foster brought his idea to life on an envelope because it was the first piece of paper he found. Bona also explained that Foster didn’t