Football: A History Of America´s New National Pastime

1. Discuss the factors that have resulted in the NFL becoming “America’s Game” and the

As the popularity of soccer increases, controversy in relation to safety concerns continues to rise as well. Due to the ineffectiveness of protective headgear among soccer players, athletes should focus on alternatives to successfully prevent injuries. Concerned parents, coaches, and athletes should heightening rules and regulations and should properly evaluate the accuracy and effectiveness of the soccer gear (i.e., balls, gloves, etc.) being used in order to reduce chances of serious

The author sets the stage of his article by talking about the upcoming Super Bowl. He uses distinct adjectives to create imagery that in turn sets the mood for the rest of the writing. Keating goes on to describe how America is the only country to play football and tells that only the best two teams out of thirty-two play in this Super Bowl for the title of “world champion” (1). Football is described as played on a ninety-one meter field involving “two large teams of large men wearing large amounts of protective padding ...while their opponents attempt to knock them to the ground with maximum force” (Keating 1). While the actual playing time is only about eleven minutes, the game usually lasts as long as three hours. It is usually taken up by many advertising commercials and replays. The author explains that the players begin playing at an early age and work their way up. Women are only seen as cheerleaders and dancers in this masculine dominated sport. In his conclusion, Keating demonstrates how businesses get involved by spending millions of dollars in their hopes to show their latest brands.

The NFL, the governing body and league format for American football is the largest grossing sporting league in the world. The sport symbolises and embodies American culture as it is fast paced, dazzling razzmatazz of a show brought to a conclusion every year by the greatest show on earth, the Super Bowl. The themes explored are going to be America’s issue with race, how the sport has evolved with TV and commercialism linking the sport to capitalism and the free market. And just like the opening a theme will be size, how large everything is about the sport and the country and how it is associated with the US.

My choice is the National Football League (NFL) which was founded on 20 August 1920. The NFL is made up of 32 teams across the United States; each team has 53 players on the team at the start of the regular season. The 32 teams are broken into two divisions; the American Football Conference (AFC) and National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL original name was the American Football League and the name was change on 22 August 1922 to the National Football League. The NFL is the only major sport that does not have any teams outside of the United States. Each team has one majority owner and the

I. Explaining the content of paper preparing reader to understand the injuries and the importance of trying to prevent these injuries in American football.

This paper will touch on the topic of the NFL moving to Europe, more specifically full time. There will be numerous implications of moving a team to London to compete, and with that comes many risks and difficulties to overcome. More specifically, The NFL would have to figure out a completely new scheduling system in order to give fair opportunity to all teams in the NFL. Furthermore there are complications of sending a team to London (pulling it from an NFL fan base) or creating a new franchise to kick start the NFL taking over the European market, giving the people a team to build around. The full support given by the European people is overwhelming with only a few games being played in Europe each year.

In order to truly appreciate the overall beneficial influence football has had on American culture between the 1890’s and 1930’s, we cannot turn a blind eye to the negative obstacles football has overcome. In the early years of development, football was played similarly to rugby and universities played by different rules, making standardization within the sport a difficult task to accomplish. One of the major problems observed during the infancy of football was the sheer violence witnessed on the field. Mass play was the common play style during the first years of football in which the entire offensive force would focus on one spot of the defense; the offense was determined to go through the defense rather than go around them. The raw power behind these plays lead to serious injuries as well as the death of a player in the early 1900’s. This disastrous event deterred numerous universities from playing football out of fear of a repeat of events. Following more serious injuries

In today’s world of big time professional sports there are the two major players and they are football represented by the National Football League (NFL) and baseball represented by Major League Baseball (MLB). Now there are other sports that the American public enjoys watching, however the argument generally boils down to which sport is the true favorite of the American people: baseball or football. In this paper I will attempt to examine both sports from several different angles to include attendance, television revenue, ticket costs, venues, salaries, entertainment value, and athlete perception. The goal of this exercise will be to determine, once and for all, which sport is the American

When he got to the women who checked his bag. She asked him if it was his first time flying. It took Odell ten or fifteen seconds to reply because he did not know what to do. When Odell got to his gate he got on the plane and he was seated in first class. He was so amazed at how nice it was. When he took off, he fell asleep right away. When he landed he was so scared because he did not know where he was. But, finally, he realized that he was in New York. Odell took a cab to the NFL HQ where he was going to get another shot at being a professional football player. When he met Roger again, he was really excited to try again. When Odell did the jump Roger immediately stopped him and

The central concern is that while the NFL is showing success in London, it faces opposition by many supporters of the NFL. The author addresses some of these concerns in the article. To start, the first

Even for a club based in the "Cradle of Football", Everton's history is startling. In their 138 years of existence, they have spent only four years outside the top flight of English football. During this time, they have won nine League titles, five FA Cups and the 1985 Cup Winners' Cup. Since 1892, the club has been playing its home games at Goodison Park, the first major football stadium in England.

Football is a good sport. The whole United States like football. My favorite football team is the green bay packers.green bay packers are from Wisconson state. I like football because the history is intresting.

Since its traditional rugby roots, football has been one of the most popularly viewed sports, along with one of the most dangerous during its near 150 year history. The first college football game that took place in 1869 between Princeton and Rutgers, both New Jersey teams lacked headgear. There were no helmets, or mouth guards worn during the developmental years of this all-American sport. It wasn’t until nearly 25 years later, when the first helmet was used. The first helmet invented was called a “head harness,” made of three thick straps that wrapped tightly around the head. The leather harness was intended to protect the ears, along with brain and interior head. Before this, the only facial protective wear worn, was a nose protector, which

One of the biggest focuses of this article was the fact that one higher made it its main focus for increase the safety of the game for the players. Furthermore, the technology of equipment for sports such as football or soccer has improved immensely over the last few decades. In saying this, it is only logical to think that the same technology, and strategy, will continue to improve in the future.