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    The sport we in the United States know as football is more so called gridiron football, for the vertical yard lines that mark the field. Closely related to some English sports, rugby and soccer gridiron football originated at collages in North America, primarily the United States, in the late 19th century. On November 6 1869, the players from Princeton and Rutgers held the first intercollegiate football contest in New Brunswick, New Jersey, playing a soccer style game with rules adapted from the London Football Association. While a number of other elite Northeastern colleges took up the sport in the 1870s, Harvard University maintained its distance by sticking to a rugby soccer hybrid called the “Boston Game. In May in 1874, there was a match…

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    I was nine years old the first time I put on football pads. I will be eighteen when I wear them last. Words can’t do justice to describe the journey football has been for me. Nothing in my life, short of the relationship with my dearest family members, has spanned as long as my football career. A single game is a drop in the bucket when looking at a career of over 100 games, but all it takes is one game to show where a player’s character lies. Before the fourth grade, football was nothing more…

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    Club football season is into its 10th week and fans are already on each other. Apart from the rivalries and derbies, the fantasy football is super exciting but football fans believe the fan base is 99% men but thank your stars am here to knock something into your head – ‘FOOTBALL IS FOR EVERYONE’. I am an Arsenal fan and I’ve been waiting for this season with the hopes that Arsenal would win the league title for first time since the invincible. I spend most of my time watching Match day live,…

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    Football is a commonly known american sport played with a leather oval ball on a gridiron like field. Soccer is a more internationally known sport played with a round leather ball on a similar looking field. The basic element of both games is to score more points than their opponent in a given time by kicking or throwing the ball into the opponents goal or endzone. In most parts of the world, however, soccer is also known as futbol. Football is primarily played with hands and soccer is primarily…

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    football Football is a popular sport in North America. Known as football in the United States and Canada, it is often called gridiron or American football in different parts of the world. It evolved from rugby football, and the first game was played in 1869 between Princeton and Rutgers. A lot of people in america play football if it's not professional they play it professional and for fun it is a American Football grew out of English sports such as rugby and soccer and became popular on…

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    same sport. Soccer is praised internationally, however, other sports, such as baseball, basketball, and American football, are not given as much attention worldwide. And there are some nations who have never heard of those sports, those who were never exposed to athletics. Now, don’t get me wrong, I realize there is such thing as the Olympics, where athletes from across the globe are given an opportunity every four…

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    Football is not for everyone Many people ask the question, what is a sport? ”A sport is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment (topendsports.com)”. People think that sports are just for fun and most of the time it is, but professional athletes make sports a career. There is a wide selection of talented men and women that play sports and it is amazing to see them perform their talent. Players are…

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    game when the ball is only in play for eleven minutes. My solution to these issues is a microchip in the football that measures where the ball is on the field at all time. The tracking chip is called IT(Information Technology)Football, since the ball is being tracked it would be easier to determine first downs because when the ball crosses the first down marker a sensor will alarm letting the official know it’s a first down and not having to waste time and review a obvious play that is either a…

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    Fantasy sports games There are quite a few fantasy sports games which you may wish to try your hand at online. Some of them are going to be more appealing to you than others. It really does just depend on what kinds of sports you prefer. The more common tend to be American sports, football, and horse racing, though. It is those fantasy sports games which we are going to be focusing on in this article. American sports American sports attract quite a crowd in the fantasy sports betting world. The…

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    forensic neuropathologist, Dr. Bennet Omalu (played by Will Smith), who was the first to discover Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). CTE is a disease that is caused by repetitive brain trauma, especially during contact sports such as football, hockey, boxing, bull riding, water polo, or whatever else you can imagine. Dr. Bennet fought against attempts by the National Football League to squash his investigation on brain damage suffered by pro football players. If you follow sports,…

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