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    American Football and its Impact on Players Football, or as it is known in Canada the Gridiron, is considered an American passion. With the advent of the television, the sport has become the premier event; although, in comparison to other sports, like soccer and basketball it has less recreational participants. Nonetheless, football is part of the American culture and is the primary pass time during holiday and homecoming celebrations. Indeed, no other world sport possesses such parabolic baggage

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    oher is an American football player with a bad background. He’s from the ghetto with not much he has . He came from a home that was crumbling…He came from a neighborhood that was very violent. Michael oher was in and out of foster homes his whole young childhood. Eventually michael was picked up one night while he was living on the streets by sean tuohy and leigh tuohy when he was the age of 16. They ended up legally adopting michael they were a football family so micheals love for football was so great

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    American football is a dangerous sport and the sport itself is a gladiator style which causes concussions. Sometimes when watching the game of football and while playing the game of football it seemed like the only objective of the game was to just hit the person on the other team with the ball as hard as possible. The sport itself has stayed the same with a couple of rule changes, but at the core it is still the violent physical game that it has always been. The difference from now to back when

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    Football is a sport, because in 1800s football grew out of English. American football grew out of English sports such as rugby and soccer and became popular in American college campuses in the late 1800s. In 1876, a coach named Walter Camp, who is considered the “Father of American football”, helped produce the first rules of American football. Among important changes were the introduction of line scrimmages and down-and-distance rules. The American professional football association was formed in

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    American Football Timeline

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    American Football, the History and Timeline of How the Sport was Developed Into the Modern-Day Sport America Knows and Loves American Football has been one of the most popular spectator sports, however it hasn’t always been this way. On November 6th, 1869 the first game, that was intercollege, was played that incorporated the basic rules of the American football that we all know and love today. Players from Rutgers and Princeton played a game against each other and only one team was victorious

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    For decades, American Football has captivated this nation as one of the prime sources of entertainment. With the culmination point, the Super Bowl, attracting more viewership than any other televised event in the country, the sport has seen a tremendous growth since its origination in 1920. In an era of economic struggle, job shortage, and high-cost of living, those with above average physical abilities can find the lure of professional football to be extremely attractive. With the wealth and fame

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    For people from other countries American sports may be confusing. In America the sport we call Soccer is actually called football in other countries. Because of this, in other countries our game of football is called American football or gridiron football. So it’s like having two different sports with the same original name. In reality both sports are quite similar. Soccer is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. American football is a sport played by two teams

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    American vs. Canadian Football American and Canadian football have many differences but are also very alike. They have the same roots of play because they are of course both football. The reason they have some differences are that they are played in different countries. American and Canadian football have a few different concepts that make them different from each other. The first difference is the field goals. The field goals are placed in the front side of each endzone as American football

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    In the united states and canada it is often called gridiron or American football. It evoled from football and the first game was played in 1809 between princton and rutgers.There are 32 teams in the NFL,team for the superBowl win the end of the season.The first game to be on televised was between the philadelphia Eagles and the Brooklyhn. In the 1906, president Theodore Roosevelt made major changes to football,and introduced the forward pass.There were approximately 500 television sets in new york

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    Maybe football shouldn’t be played at all. The latest findings show that 81 to 91 percent of deceased National Football League players had signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Alternatively, others think football should be made safer to reduce some of its violence. American Football goes back to the late 1800s. The game of American football itself was moderately new in 1892. It began from two games, soccer and rugby, which was delighted around the globe. On November 6, 1869, Rutgers and Princeton

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