Football

Football, the most profitable and popular professional sport in America, is an economic powerhouse for cities, television networks, restaurants, and fans. In 2014, the National Football League (NFL) had a total revenue of $7.24 billion and strives to reach $25 billion by 2027. While a portion of the revenue is earned through television network partnerships and advertisements, ticket sales revenue still accounts for a large sum of NFL revenue. These ticket revenues assist in paying numerous team…

Most people think that football is the most prone sport to concussions, but researchers from Northwestern University and Wake Forest University have discovered that it is actually fourth on the list, behind girls soccer, girls volleyball, and girls basketball. So why are we only focusing on football instead of these other concussion prone sports. I think that football should not be dropped as a high School sport. First of all, football is really important to any high school. David Geier, an…

system as an example the “Dead Ball” rule in football; In football the dead ball rule controls the flow of the game. When the ball is dead the clock stops and teams go back to their huddles to prepare for the next play. Without the dead ball rule the activity system would be significantly more chaotic, players would not know when to stop which could lead to injuries. Rules in…

Bowl Sunday, in addition to the mass amount of jobs it creates as well. A large portion of these earnings come from one sport in particular- professional football. However, in order to keep up with our Nation’s rapid population growth, what more can be done to add-on and cultivate the mass amount of earnings and jobs that professional football already provides? Despite whether the economy is striving or struggling, society still loves sports. This is clearly shown by the large economic impact…

Football is one of America’s favorite sports, with 114.4 million views for the Super Bowl alone. However, recent studies have begun to prove that the popular sport is deadly. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive degenerative disease which affects the brains of people who have suffered repeated concussions and traumatic brain injuries 1, and it is the reason why football needs to become a sport of the past. The main reason that the sport of football needs to be banned is the…

basically follow the genes of your family. When my brother wanted to play football he had to tryout. On the next day of his tryouts, I learn how to play football. If you don't know think about football, except for the fact people tackle other people and use a football. Trying to play would be tough. When my dad was teaching me; we started with the basics. The basics of football are how to catch,throw and hold a football ; these are the things that are most important. As we started playing my…

American football and soccer, or football as most countries call it, are two very different sports. They have a few similarities such as they are both sports that use a ball, they both require hard work and dedication, and both are loved by many fans. However these similarities are very basic and are shared by many sports. This goes to show just how different they are. The playstyle, the overall setup, the location where it is played and where it is most popular, and how it is perceived are all…

I want to learn more about football helmets and its history. So I took my time and looked things up. I play football and when I get hit I feel safe knowing that this helmets are meant for this sport. Will keep playing this sport until I’m done with high school. Doing some research I saw that they played with just some leather helmets and they were big guys. I was thinking to myself and saying they can get paralyzed by a big hits right to the head. Before i did this research i already knew some…

the sport football began? In 1869 the sport rugby was popular in colleges around the world. People would play the sport rugby and they played it a lot. But in the sport of rugby the people would get hurt because they played with no pads on the players. In 1880, a rugby player from Yale University, named Walter Camp changed the rules of rugby and transformed it into American football. Walter camp is known as “the father of football”, he was apart of the group called Intercollegiate Football…

I believe in football Football is my life. it’s more than just touched downs and points to my eyes. it’s more than just tight pants to my eyes. The thing I like about football is that is I can hang out with my friends on the weekend. I believe in football. Teamwork is my life too. Teamwork is my life too because it needs to do with football when you do a play. Teamwork is just not pretending to work as a team but after you are not as a team to my life. itś more than just pretending to work as…