A History of American Football

  This game was famous in the nineteenth century AD, and it is said that this
 game began in England when a soccer player was frustrated by the law of kicking the ball with the foot without touching it with the hands, but he won admiration and admiration when he caught it with his hands and eluded other players until reaching the end of the stadium, and then moved This game was brought to America in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Many people in America liked this game, and it started to circulate in Northeastern universities, specifically at Harvard University, Yale and Massachusetts universities.

In 1876 Harvard University met at Yale University in the US state of Massachusetts in Northeast America to lay down rules and study the laws of this game.

In the beginning, I encountered differences and encountered problems, but at the end of the meeting they agreed, that the design of the ball is changed .. so it was changed from a round ball to an oval ball.

The game was also renamed from Rugby to Football and was under the Intercollegiate Football Association ... (IFA) .. It stands for (Intercollegiate Football Association).

Laws of the game

It is bypassing the opponent's players and reaching the end of the opponent's area, the ball can be carried with two hands and advance with it or throw (pass) to another player in another area to continue progressing. The ball can also be taken directly from the hand of a player in the same team.

A goal can be achieved in more than one way: advancing and past the goal line in the opponent's area without stopping, or throwing the ball to another player after the goal line, or kicking the ball high between the two columns at the top of the other team's area. The winning team is the one that scores the most points in the allotted time.

The number of players in each team is more than fifty players. However, there are only 11 players on the field at the same time.These players are divided according to the job each of them performs into three teams: attack, defense, and the special team there is QB, Quarter Back, or Four-Back, and these are mostly skilled than the rest of the team because their job They create opportunities for their teammates to score.

The playing time or match time is 60 minutes, and the match is divided into two halves, and each half is called two halves, and it is called a quarter of the game, and the break time is 20 minutes between the two halves, and the break between the two quarters is a minute or two that allows the two teams to switch places of play.

Pitch area

The dimensions of the stadium will be 360 ​​feet long and 160 feet wide, which is equivalent to (109.7 meters in length and 48.8 meters in width). The long lines on the sides are called the sidelines, while the short lines are called the end zone lines.

The attacking team is required to cross these short lines to score points, but the defending team must stop the attack before it crosses the end zone line. The end zone starts from a line called the scoring line and ends with a line called the finish line and the distance between them is 19 yards or (9.1 m) ). Also there is a repeat line on the ground every 10 yards that starts.

The most prominent teams in the league

The American National Football League consists of 32 teams divided into two conferences of 16 teams. Each conference is divided into four sections consisting of four teams in each section. Each team consists of 53 players, with 46 players participating in each match.

According to Forbes, the Dallas Cowboys is the most expensive team in the National Football League and the most expensive sports team in the world, valued at up to $ 4 billion.

The Green Bay Packers are the team to win the most league titles, with 13 titles (9 from the pre-Super Bowl era, 4 from after); The Pittsburgh Steelers is the most popular Super Bowl, with the current designation, with 6 titles.

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