Everyone is aware of what American Football is; even kids practice this at school. From the word itself, it is an American game of Football that evolved from the sport of Rugby Football. It was first played on November 6, 1869, between Princeton and Rutgers, from then it has become the USA’s most renowned sport.
How to play the game?
American Football is a full-contact sport where the players prepare not only their body but their minds as well. The sport is all about running, the teams will either holding or pass the ball trying to reach their opponent’s goal area to score some points.
Takes place on a rectangular field, the game is consisting of 2 teams and both teams have 11 players. The field is huge, 110 meters long and 48.76 meters wide with goalposts place at each end of the field.
The ball used in American Football is not an ordinary ball; it’s a prolate spheroid or oval-shaped. Played in a 60minute, the game is divided into two halves of 30 minutes as you see in a professional tournament. With full physical contact and messy at its seems, player’s safety is the top priority, American football players are required to wear a football helmet and shoulder pads to minimize any injury.
Played in most countries like North America, Europe, and Japan, American Football has different methods of scoring.
American Football Scoring Methods
The main goal for the offense team is to touchdown. To attain this, a player must successfully carry the ball across the opposing team’s goal line or catch a pass the ball in the end zone. Once this happened while it’s on the player’s possession it is then scored a touchdown. The touchdown itself is worth 6 points. The team that scored the touchdown will be given the bonus of attaining one or two points which are called “extra-point conversion attempts”.
If the team desire to go for an extra two points, they’ll line up at the 2-yard line to attempt a run or passing of the ball in the end zone. If the trying team makes it, the team is then awarded 2 points. If they do not make it, an extra point is no longer awarded.
Another way of scoring for the team is Field Goals which are worth 3 points. A team in a fourth-down position might attempt to score in a field goal; this is when the team feels that their special team kicker is in a comfortable range of kicking the ball.
Aside from the scoring methods mentioned above, a team can also pick up two points by tackling the opponents that hold the ball at their end zone which is called the Safety.
With the immense popularity of this sport, the majority of people living in the United States make sure that they are watching every American Football tournament on the field or at home. It does not matter where as long as they are supporting their team during the match-awaited sports event.
