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Football is a fantastic sport…particularly the NFL. It has been my favourite spectator sport considering that I was a little girl, sitting on my Dad’s lap watching his favourite group play. There is some thing so fantastic (particularly if you have a favorite group) about listening to the thousands of individuals in the stadium cheer, or in some cases boo, when a touchdown is scored or the defense intercepts the ball. OK, doofootball know if you’re reading this you are most likely a girl wanting to know additional about the sport, so what I just said may well not make much sense to you. But, have no fear! I am here to give you a quick guide to football so you can impress your boyfriend, or to have additional exciting hanging out with your husband on a Sunday afternoon although he’s watching the game.

This information comes from 40 years of watching football, and though I in no way played (I WAS a cheerleader for many years and that is as close as we girls can get), I have earned the respect of many a man by realizing my stuff about football. I’m also way far more obsessed about my preferred team than most men I know!

#1 – The object of the game is to outscore the opponent by advancing the football into your end zone scoring as numerous touchdowns as attainable. This is performed by the OFFENSE. Meanwhile, the DEFENSE tries with all their may well to stop the offense from scoring a touchdown.

There are two end zones on the playing field – 1 for each group. They are positioned at each and every finish of the field exactly where the purpose posts are situated (hopefully no explanation needed here).

A TOUCHDOWN is worth six points and is scored when a player catches or carries the ball into their end zone. After scoring a touchdown, an attempt to kick an added point through the goal posts is made. If effective, it is worth 1 point and tends to make it a total of 7 points scored in that series.

Another way to score is named a FIELD Goal. If a team thinks they will not be in a position to make it in the finish zone for a touchdown (for numerous factors), they could try to score by kicking a field purpose, and it is worth three points.

#2. – Remain with me right here. Every team has a series of DOWNS in order to get the ball to their finish of the field to score. A group has to take the ball 10 yards every time to be able to advance, and they have 4 attempts to do so. For instance, the team begins the series with the ball on the 20 yard line. They run the ball for 3 yards and get tackled (see, you happen to be mastering the lingo!). They still have 7 yards to go to make the 1st DOWN. Let’s say the next play they go 9 yards, this indicates they not only get a Very first DOWN, they get to begin more than with what is referred to as a 1ST AND ten….which signifies yet another initial down and ten yards to go to get a further 1ST AND ten, and so on. If the team does not make the 10 yards within the 4 attempts, they have to kick the ball to the other team. It’s actually a tiny a lot more involved then this, but I’m just attempting to give you the quite basics!

#three – Although the OFFENSE is trying to score a TOUCHDOWN by passing and/or running the ball toward their finish zone, the DEFENSE is attempting to stop the other team from advancing! This is performed by TACKLING the OFFENSIVE players, attempting to SACK THE QUARTERBACK, or attempting to INTERCEPT the ball while it is getting thrown. This is also more complicated than described, but the more you watch the more you’ll catch on!

#four – In the NFL, a game is created up of 4 QUARTERS. Each QUARTER is 15:00 minutes long (I am positive you are going to notice that it’s not in fact 15 minutes in true-time). It goes like this 1ST QUARTER, 2ND QUARTER, HALFTIME, 3RD QUARTER and 4TH QUARTER. If, when the game is over and there is a tie, it will go into OVERTIME and the very first team to score will win.

Nicely, this is a really basic and broad description of the game of football. I hope it is a start toward you feeling comfortable with watching a game! Most of the girls I know that never like football, simply have no clue to what the sport is about, much significantly less know any of the facts or lingo. I actually feel that if they had a tiny much more knowledge about the game, they might find it thrilling to watch…plus a lot of guys think a football-watching girl is a attractive issue!