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    American football is an amazing sport to watch or play that teaches you a lot of life lessons. Football is a very challenging sport to play. I am going to be talking about the History and who created it, the different levels of it, and the rules to the game. So strap up your helmet and pads and get ready to learn. The history of football traced by to the 1880s. Football traces back to the 1880’s. It is based off of rugby which is very similar to football but a lot different a the same time. In

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    Being the most popular sport in the United States did not happen overnight. Football derived from the combination of soccer and rugby. Soccer is a sport that can be dated back as far as the third century. Soccer used to be a military exercise known as Tsu’ Chu, which means football. Tsu’ can be further translated into ‘kicking the ball with the feet’. Chu is further translated into ‘a ball made of leather and stuffed’. The Tsu’Chu exercise consisted of passing a leather ball through a small opening

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    Throughout Mark Dantonio’s career he has brought a football teams to stardom. Mark Dantonio is the coach of one of the biggest college’s in the state of Michigan.He coaches at Michigan State University. He has brought them to a playoff game and multiple bowl games. Mark Dantonio is an inspirational person because of how he has battled hardships,brought back a football program from start to finish, became one of the most successful coaches in NCAA history, and he has ranked in the top 10 for coaches poll

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    What makes a football player great? There are many things that make a football player great. Here are three of the greatest players and why they are the greatest. The National football league (NFL) was founded on August 20, 1920. It was founded by Jim Thorpe, George Halas, and Ralph Hay. The NFL has 32 teams which many athletes play on. There are many people who have actually become famous and rich for being such good athletes. Along with becoming famous and rich these players have become the greatest

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    “Without understanding a culture’s sports, we cannot understand the culture itself” (Gorn and Oriard, 1995). The defining parts of a culture can also shape a country’s history. A large part of the Greek identity is being the nation that began the Olympics hundreds of years ago. As America began to mature, sports helped to shape its identity as well. One piece of America’s identity is that it was and is home to millions of immigrants from all over the world. The music to one of the most recognized

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    ) changing history by taking away the Penn State football victories from 1998-2011. History was changed by making the losers of these football games the winners. In George Orwell’s 1984, the past is always being changed or “corrected”. Big Brother alters the past so that he always appears right. The N.C.A.A. is not correct for vacating Penn State’s win and the novel 1984 relates to this because the past is always being changed. The N.C.A.A. took away wins from the Penn State Football Team because

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    NFL with MCI In the article, NFL Football Players May Be More Susceptible to Alzheimer's and Dementia, the clinical professor Christopher Randolph makes a scientific study to whether or not former professional football players are prone to head trauma related diseases such as MCI and Alzheimer’s. This study can be proved to be valid, because the author states his theory through clinical studies comparing different groups of people with and without a former history in a professional sport. The main

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    American Football American football was made by Walter Camp. He was called the “Father of American Football”. Camp virtually invented the game by changing rugby rules multiple times. He created it because he was the guiding force on the rules for the board of Intercollegiate Football Association. Camp played “halfback and served as team captain.” History.com Staff. “Who invented football.” ASK HISTORY. September 25th, 2013. Web(insert something). May 28th, 2016. http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/who-invented-football

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    Soccer vs. Football Soccer and Football have long been high class sports with ample amount of respect and dignity, groomed through history. Regulations and guidelines have been set in stone and shifted throughout the course of competition. Safety is key in both recreational sports and has become essential for the protection of the people that participate. Stylistically the two sports contain a different overall goal, however the techniques vary. From a beginners point of view the sports seem derived

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    will make a lot of money. My dream job is to be a pro football player for the NFL. My position or positions will be guard and/or tackle. The information on my two positions are, “LG and RG = left guard and right guard: The inner two members of the offensive line, whose jobs are to block for and protect the quarterback and ball carriers.” and “LT and RT = left tackle and right tackle: The outer two members of the offensive line.”, on, "Football Players ' Roles in Team Offense and Defense." For Dummies

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