History of American Football Essay

The Super Bowl is the annual American football championship. The Super Bowl was established as a result of a merger agreement between the National Football League (NFL) and the American Football League (AFL). The first ever Super Bowl took place on January 15, 1967 with 61,946 attendees. It was located at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs by a score of 35-10. Years later, the Super Bowl turned into something much bigger.…

America discovered Red Grange because of football, but football was not Grange’s whole life. He was more than a football player, and it was his trials and triumphs off the field shaped him as a man. Throughout his life Grange repeatedly fought past adversity and through his struggles off of the football field to become a smart, humble and resilient man while still dominating the football gridiron. Red Grange was born in 1903 in a small Pennsylvania town. He was the first of three children…

Football is one of the greatest American sports. It is a fun and rewarding game to some people. To others, it may be too time-consuming and too much effort required. Whatever it is to you there is one thing we can all agree on...football is a dangerous sport. Between head injuries and just entire body injuries it is dangerous. The most common injury in football is a head injury. Head injuries are dangerous and the most frequent injury. Broken bones will heal, but your brain may not.…

Greatest Event Professional football has had a huge impact on America. Since its first professional game in the fall of 1892, the country would never be the same. This can be seen on the very first expense sheet shown from that game that this was going to be something special. That there was going to be a lot of money involved in this game. Which was going to have a major influence on the people, economy and the players itself; this is why the first professional football game is the most…

The History and Structure of the Inside Football League “Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time,” (Lombardi 2010). Vince Lombardi said this to his players while getting ready for the 1970 NFC Championship game. Like winning, football is an all the time thing that happens year round, whether one is training as an athlete for the regular season or is a spectator of the game, football is a major part…

Tom Brady was born August 3, 1977 in San Mateo, California. He is an American football quarterback for the New England Patriots (NFL). He is one of two players to win five Super Bowls and the only player to win them all playing for one team. Tom Brady began his professional football career after playing college football for the University of Michigan, and was drafted by the Patriots in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft. Brady didn’t just go to college for sports. He got his degree in…

Our first major expense will be the cost of training fields and buildings. This includes the lease and maintenance of football field for training and games, rent expense for classrooms and administrative office and utilities expense. For example, we can rent large fields at London Borough of Hillingdon for £50 per hour (Sports and fitness, 2016). Together with training time…

Football has created a tradition that dates back to the 1820’s, Making joy, creating rivals, and picking sides. That is for the ones who watch it or play it. Everyone has their favorite position in the game of football, either it’s the quarter back, running back, wide receiver or even the lineman people pick sides and share biases. I believe in the game of football it’s the backfield, the running backs, the stone carriers. Montee Ball is one of the best running backs who ever went to the…

The National Football League had a notoriously bad last two years; some blamed the election as a distraction, but the most obvious audience deterrents were political protests which disrespected a "time honored [American] tradition," as well as the military and law enforcement. In response, a failed independent football league, the Extreme Football League, or XFL, announced that it will make another attempt at starting a league by creating one that eliminates politics and other elements that…

million viewers over TV.(statista.com, super bowl tv viewership) The super bowl is considered the biggest American football game of the year, it takes the top team from the AFC and plays them against the top team from the NFC in order to determine the NFL champion. Super bowl 49 in 2015 with the New England Patriots playing the Seattle Seahawks was the most watched football game in national history, with 114.4 million people tuning…