Football

Football originated from the english version, rugby. American football started in 1879, and instituted rules from Walter Camp, player and coach at Yale university.


The first type of American football was College football, it was to entertain college kids around America. It was soon after the civil war that colleges created teams around the campass. Then it started getting around to the other colleges and they started to play eachother in seasons. it used to have only a hat type helmet with no protection what so ever. Now it has evolved into full pads with a padded helmet with a lot of protection, but it still doesn't stop from getting concussions.


The National Football League was created in 1922. At first the Nation Football League was limited only ten teams. Obviously you can tell that rule has been changed over the years. Fifty years of ten teams changed in 1972, they now had 16 teams, still not that much compared to the present days. National Football League was all one big association, until 1973, when they divided it up into 4 leagues, each with four teams in them.


After 1973 they expanded the team limit again, now they had two leagues. National Football League and the American Football league. Now the limit was pushed up to 26 teams, so each league had at least 13 teams.


Now football is almost business between teams getting billions of dollars each year even if they don't play. Now they have full padded helmets, and other equipment. Football is the most liked sport in America. Personally I think it will always be that way because football is amazing.


Some teams are Packers, Chargers, Falcons, and Saints. I love the Packers, and just because Brett Favre was on that team or they're a Wisconsin team. I like them because they have a good hard working team. I mean the Patriots you are ranked tied at first beat the Packers by only four, and the Packers had a back up Quarterback in! I like other teams too, like the Saints, and not just because they won the super bowl against the Colts. I like Drew Brees, Colston, and Reggie Bush.


Football has been going on for a long time, first was college, second was NFL, and third was school football. Weird right? I thought School Football would be the first but I guess not. I really like football, especially going to the football game. Just sitting in the crowd and hearing the crowd roaring with excitment. Football is the greatest sport in history of man kind to me at least.