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Football - The Great
American Game
One of the most popular
team sports in the United States is football. Their version combines
soccer and rugby and wasn't played until the nineteenth century. Millions
of spectators and thousands of players participate in football games every
year.
Football has a unique tradition in the US. American football is like an
institution in the people of USA. Football gets the center stage of
students' activity in the high school. The entire school comes to back
their team during tournaments. The homecoming games and dances are nearly
bigger than prom. The quarterback of the football team is the most popular
guy in the school.
American football is a complex game with numerous rules and regulations.
For those who are not football enthusiastic, they may find the game boring
and weary. The strategy a team adopts is more important in football than
just running and eluding the opponents while scoring. It takes years and
years of study to chalk out the strategies to win. Often the credit does
not go to the coach and the assistants, as the players snatch the
limelight attributed to their on-field performance.
The first professional football game was played in Pennsylvania in 1895.
Within a decade many colleges formed their own teams for football and
apart from that many other teams also came up. The American Professional
Football Association was formed in 1920 to give a fillip to the game. In
1922, the American Professional Football Association was converted into
the National Football League.
Today professional football and the NFL are both very popular and the most
well-known players are celebrities in their own right. One of the biggest
television events each year is the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl is
essentially the finals for each season of football. It draws literally
millions of viewers from across the country and plenty from Canada as
well.
National television stations charge millions to advertisers for slots
during the Super Bowl, and the commercials are an event all their own. So
is the star- studded half time show which is usually quite the spectacle
thanks to recent "wardrobe malfunctions".
Football is popular in the US due to a variety of reasons. No one
particular reason can be attributed to its success. Many are of the
opinion that the game is very violent and barbaric. Many people end up
with injuries due to the brutal tackling methods of the game. Some find
the anticipation as the most exciting part of the game. For the one who
has been a football player, the strategy employed in the game is of
paramount interest. Spectators also like the way players scream at the
coaches for employing wrong strategies.
Football has turned into an attractive professional sport. It is as
popular as baseball and hockey. Canadians play a different style of
football which has slightly different rules from the one played in the US.
But it is not as popular as it is in the US.
Young children, both boys and girls start playing football early on. Teams
used to be made up only of boys, but now the girls are proving that gender
doesn't have to play a part in sports.
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