rules of football - Sports - Football

Today I am going to explain the rules of football to you. Football is the most popular sport in America. Millions upon Million of people watch football games each weekend. Each level has their own unofficial day. In high school 95 present of the games are played on Friday nights. College football games are always played on Saturday while the Nation Football League plays almost all games on Sunday.

Football is one of the few sports in the world that play with a ball that is NOT circular. A football is round in the middle that then stretches out to two points at the end. A football is also often called a pigskin because many years ago a football would be made out of pigskin. Today footballs are made out of leather. Some of the most popular football makers in the world are Wilson, Baden, and Nike.

The rules of football are very complicated to an outsider. The game is played on a field of 120 yards in length and 59 yards in width. There are two end zones at each end that are ten yards in length. The rest of the field is labeled yards by yard. The field goes from the 1 yard line to 50 yard line and then you count down from that same 50 yard line back down to the one yard line. The field also has field goals on each side of the field. These goals are usually bright yellow and are ten feet off the ground and have a 15 foot wide goal area.

Football has a interesting point system also. Unlike in baseball when everything is one run, football has varying points for actions. A touchdown is a best way to score points in a football game. This happens when you take the football into the end zone that the opposing team is guarding. A touchdown is worth six points. After a touchdown you have the right to kick the ball or run a regular play. Kicking the ball is usually easier but it is worth only one point. A regular play is harder to do but its worth two points. Most teams kick the easier one pointer. Another way of scoring is the field goal. A field goal is like an extra point because you have to kick it through the uprights of the goal. It is different because you kick a field goal when you have not gotten into the end zone yet. A Field goal is worth 3 points. There is only one other way to score points in football and it is called a safety. The safety is the rarest way to score points in a game and it only happen s around 10 present of games.

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