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    In week 2 and 3 of the NFL season trends become clear. Once again this has held true. Through these first two weeks there have been numerous disappointments, breakouts, and players who have lived up to high expectations. In this blog post I will be covering these players and giving some advice on what to do with some of these players. All references to points are in standard league scoring. Disappointments Demarco Murray- Demarco Murray had 9 rushes for 25 yards and had 3 yards in the air  week

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    Many of the fans think college football is better than pro football, but I think this is not true. Each of the programs have differences and we should respect this, but they also have similarities as well. They also have rules which the players have to follow. Although the penalties are severe, the nfl and college football, have the same rules which many of the players think are fair. Also, many of the players respect the history behind it and encourage other players to do the same. Many of the

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    The Impact Football Stadiums Have When governments build stadiums for a sport team millions of dollars are involved in the process. Since the government pays for these stadiums, it’s our tax dollars that are used. Building a stadium has more disadvantages than advantages. The government doesn’t make a lot of money from the stadiums compared to how much money the government spent on building the stadium. When a team owner wants to build a new stadium, the team owner asks the government for the money

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    Football Monologue

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    Some boys taught me to play football. This was fine sport. You thought up a new strategy for every play and whispered it to the others. You went out for a pass, fooling everyone. Best, you got to throw yourself mightily at someone's running legs. Either you brought him down or you hit the ground flat out on your chin, with your arms empty before you. It was all or nothing. If you hesitated in fear, you would miss and get hurt: you would take a hard fall while the kid got away, or you would get kicked

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    my uncles, my brother, my cousins, and my friends if they knew what it meant but few of them simply didn’t care or didn’t even care. I was so eager to find out what he truly meant. When I was 8, in 3rd grade, I started playing the famous sport of football (soccer). Not only did I suck but I was awful at the sport! There were certain rules I didn’t know, that now I think of as the most obvious rules for the sport. For example, I didn’t understand the proper call for a foul.

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    Sport one: Football Regulations of football: A football field should be the length of 100 yard to 130 yards long and if it is not this long it has not met the regulations of the game. The width of a football field must be 50 to 90 yards wide or its has not met the regulations of the game. In football the nets should be 7 metres to 8 metres long or they are not the proper size and they wont met the regulations In football the top of the net (crossbar) should be 8m above the ground to meet the regulations

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    American football vs European football (soccer) On November 1869, Princeton and Rutgers played the first intercollegiate football game in New Brunswick, New Jersey, using a soccer-style game with rules adapted from the London Football Association (Michael Oriard 2017). American football is a combination of two English sport, rugby and soccer. In term of popularity, soccer is most popular sport in the world, whereas American football is only popular in the United States. American Football and soccer

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    I remember when I was little thinking how awesome it would be to play football and I looked up to the people older than me like in middle school or high school when I was in elementary thinking that someday I would be in that same situation. Than my time in middle school had come. In 7th grade football we were up 8-6 the other team had the ball around midfield on a drive to win the game. The quarterback dropped back and learning from other people and coaches to read the quarterback's eyes. I was

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    American football resulted from several major divergences from association football and rugby football, most notably the rule changes instituted by Walter Camp, a Yale University and Hopkins School graduate, considered the "Father of American Football". Among these important changes were the introduction of the line of scrimmage, of down-and-distance rules and of the legalization of blocking. The popularity of college football grew as it became the dominant version of the sport in the United States

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    There are over 200 million unique viewers that watch football every year. College and NFL football is one of the major things that can seise Americans from thinking about all of the awful things in the world and unite people together. Certain things come with each league that are different and similar to each other. There are even some areas of both leagues that people most likely did not even know about either of them. These two notorious football leagues have many similarities and differences in the

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