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Rugby and Football Injuries Rugby and American football are both very physical sports with many injuries but which is the more dangerous sport? Most people will say that the more dangerous sport is rugby because there is little to no protection for the body that is required. As for football they must have their protective gear. While playing football everyone wears the required protective gear such as helmet, shoulder pads, and girdle (leg/lower body protection). In contrast, while playing…

Why American Football is a Shallow Sport Every team sport has many similarities, such as a point system, some sort of object to catch throw, hit, or kick, and a large array of rules. However, some sports, such as Football in this case, have many qualities that make fans of other sports scratch their heads. It’s not only the sport itself that has problems, but the morals of the people who lead and own the NFL as well. Some thoughts are based on opinion, while others are based on fact.…

The first thing to know about football is how it became the most famous sport in America. In America NFL (the National Football League) is considered the highest point in football. When you talk NFL history, January 12, 1969, needs to be high on the list. That's the day Joe Namath's New York Jets of the AFL upset the mighty Baltimore Colts of the NFL. This was the first AFL-NFL championship that was referred to as the Super Bowl, the name coming from Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt after…

the sport football began? In 1869 the sport rugby was popular in colleges around the world. People would play the sport rugby and they played it a lot. But in the sport of rugby the people would get hurt because they played with no pads on the players. In 1880, a rugby player from Yale University, named Walter Camp changed the rules of rugby and transformed it into American football. Walter camp is known as “the father of football”, he was apart of the group called Intercollegiate Football…

Tough aint enough Last month saw the finals of the women's world cup football with the UK coming in a respectable third as they played off against our favourite rivals Germany and the Americans, who still feel the need to call the game soccer, won over Japan - kudos. Certain things that stood out again, not only the level of skill proving every bit entertaining as their male counter parts, yet again proving just how tough these female athletes are some journalists comparing them to the men.…

16 September 2015 Football is one of the most popular and electrifying sporting events in the world! According to Nolan Feeney, “A total of 114.4 million people watched the New England Patriots beat the Seattle Seahawks 28-24”. The championship game, known as the Super Bowl, has broken a majority of the records in television views in the United States. However, football has come a long away. Many people in the United States did not always like the game of football. In the beginning of the…

Football is a commonly known american sport played with a leather oval ball on a gridiron like field. Soccer is a more internationally known sport played with a round leather ball on a similar looking field. The basic element of both games is to score more points than their opponent in a given time by kicking or throwing the ball into the opponents goal or endzone. In most parts of the world, however, soccer is also known as futbol. Football is primarily played with hands and soccer is primarily…

football Football is a popular sport in North America. Known as football in the United States and Canada, it is often called gridiron or American football in different parts of the world. It evolved from rugby football, and the first game was played in 1869 between Princeton and Rutgers. A lot of people in america play football if it's not professional they play it professional and for fun it is a American Football grew out of English sports such as rugby and soccer and became popular on…

Every time a football player laces up his cleats, straps on his helmet, and steps on that field, he could be making one of the biggest mistakes of his life. Brain damage caused by multiple blows to the head has never received the appropriate attention that it deserves. A recent study by researchers at the Department of Veterans Affairs’ brain repository in Bedford, Massachusetts showed that of the brain tissue from 128 former football players examined, 101 (78.9%) of them tested positive for CTE…

States know as football is more so called gridiron football, for the vertical yard lines that mark the field. Closely related to some English sports, rugby and soccer gridiron football originated at collages in North America, primarily the United States, in the late 19th century. On November 6 1869, the players from Princeton and Rutgers held the first intercollegiate football contest in New Brunswick, New Jersey, playing a soccer style game with rules adapted from the London Football…