Football

Football, the great american sport.

Football is played with your hands, your foot, your entire body and your brain.

The 'Football' or ball is an oval ball designed for the most advanced aerodynamics to increase the perfection of throwing distance, speed, rotating (spiral) and precision.

High School Football
College Football (NCAA)
Pro Football (NFL)

It's the world's most beautiful, exciting, technical and strategical sport in the world with each team having an offense and defense team and each of them having a lot of specific formations and plays.

A "Play" is the actual move the teams do and there is large variety of "Plays" and "Formations" and each team has their own.They are listed in the Playbooks and describe and show the move and how it has to be done.

The basic and most important target of Football for the offense is to gain yards, touchdowns and the field goals to win the game.But also not to lose yards.
The defense on the other side, has to read the offense and keep 'em away of gaining yards and/or make it to the end zone.

Football and Soccer

In the states european football is called soccer and it's pretty hated.What europeans call American Football, is just called 'Football' in the states.

:It's football time!
:Yeah, we're gonna win this ball game!
:Like always, the field is ours.

American: You're gonna go to the ball game on friday with us?
European: What's a ball game?
American: Eh...Football????

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