The History of Football

               

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Over the years, football has become a favorite sport of many Americans whether it's watching or playing the game. In today's organized football games there are different levels. The high school level prepares potential players for the college level. College level football is broadcasted through tv and radio. This level lets scouts look for potentials for the NFL. The NFL, National Football League, is the highest level of football. It is also broadcasted through tv, radio, and even the Internet. These players get paid for their NFL career.
Legends say that football descended from harpston, an ancient Greek game. Harpston was usually a "very rough and brutal game." The harpston rules were simple: points awarded to a team when a player crossed the goal line with the ball or threw the ball to a teammate who was across the goal line as well as opposing teams stopping each other from crossing the goal line. This game had a tremendous lack of rules as well such as having no certain field length, no certain number of players on a team, and no side line boundaries. Modern day football is said to be originated from England during the twelfth century. Kings of that time period banned football because it became more popular than other England sports such as archery and fencing. (http://www.hornetfootball.org/documents/football-history.htm)
The rules of football have increased in number since being created. Rules such as the length of the field, one hundred yards between each goal line, the number of players on the field, eleven at a time from each team, the length of the game, sixty minutes, many rules about safety plus many more rules about scoring and other details.
Football has also become a game that many families and friends like to play with each other. When Tim Tebow and his brothers get together, they like to play football. They are just like many other American families, they enjoy each other and football.
Thanks to the Greeks or English, or whoever invented football, America now has a favorite past time as well as role models. My favorite NFL players are Kirk Cousins on the Washington Redskins, Tom Brady on the New England Patriots, and of course Tim Tebow on the New York Jets.