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When a team has possession of the football, it can score points in several ways. Touchdowns, extra points, two-point conversions, field goals, and safeties all can increase a team’s score.
Touchdowns
A touchdown is worth six points — the ultimate goal. A team scores a touchdown when an offensive player carrying the ball, or a defensive player who has obtained the ball from the other team after recovering a fumble or intercepting a pass, advances from anywhere on the field and breaks the plane of his opponents’ goal line with the ball. The ball just has to cross the line. Read the rest of this entry »
Football is one of the most popular games played in almost every corner of the globe. But, do you know about the invention of football and how the game has developed over the years? Let’s take a look at the history of this wonderful game.
There are many sports being played all over the world, but if we need to acknowledge one as the king of all sports, it has to be football. But, wait a minute; what sport are we talking about? Different parts of the world relate football to different sports. For us, here in the US and Canada, it’s American football, down under they mean Australian rules football, in Ireland it is Gaelic football and the rest of the world understands it as what we know as soccer. Damn! That’s a lot of interpretations. While we discuss the invention of football, we’ll talk in brief only about the two most popular and widespread forms of football i.e. American football and Soccer. Read the rest of this entry »
Read on to know the various offensive and defensive positions in American Football…
The position of the players in American football depends on whether the team on the offense or defense which is decided on who has the ball.
Offensive Positions
The offensive team in the game of football is the team in possession of the ball. The offensive line consists of a center, two guards, two tackles and either one or two tight ends. The positions and their tasks are as follows: Read the rest of this entry »
Football fans everywhere are preparing to settle in for the NFL’s biggest and most electric weekend of the season—a four-game playoff marathon that will swallow up at least 12 hours of broadcast time over two days.
But here’s something even dedicated students of the game may not fully appreciate: There’s very little actual football in a football game. Read the rest of this entry »