2. Sports in the U.S.A
• Sports play an important role in American
society, beyond their popularity.
• They are vehicles for transmitting values such
as fair play, justice, and teamwork.
• They have contributed to the racial and
social integration, and act as a “social
glue”that helps bind society together
(Jackie Robinson).
3. Football
Most popular sport in the U.S. at every level:
• high school
• college
• professional
The most television viewers too.
Whole families participate in football events
4. How football started:
Football started at a Rugby boy's school in England
in 1823. Princeton University students played a
game called Ballown. In both games players used
both their feet and hands to advance the ball.
Organized football began in high schools in the early
1860's. Colleges also started in the late 1860's. They
played with 25 players on each team. Rutgers and
Princeton played a game called football but they
played it more like soccer than football
5. The Civil War and the
Second Industrial
Revolution (1861 to 1918)
American Football
• Originally the “Boston game” - was played by a group known
as the Oneida Football Club. - 1863
• First game – 1869 - Rutgers University faced Princeton
University
– Soccer rules
• American football was started in 1879
with rules instituted by Walter Camp, player and coach at
Yale University, known as the “Father of football”.
• Walter Camp edited every American Football rulebook until
his death in 1925
6. From Rugby and Soccer to American
football:
Walter Camp contibuted the following changes:
• one side retained undisputed possession of the ball, until that side
gives up the ball as a result of its own violations
• the line of scrimmage – (linia poczatkowa )
• 11 on a team instead of 15
• created the quarter-back and center positions
• forward pass
• standardized the scoring system, numerical scoring
• created the safety, interference, penalties, and the neutral zone
• tackling as low as the knee was permitted – 1888
• a touchdown increased in value to six points and field goals went
down to three points – 1912
7. HOW to Play?
• It’s all about Defense, Offense and YARDS
• The field - 100 yards long and 53 yards wide (1 metre -
about 1.0936 )
• 11 players on the field from each team
• Each team has 3 separate units : defense, offence and
special teams that only comes in kicking situations
• All progress is measured in yards, the offensive team
tries as mach as it can to get closer to oponents’ end
zone.
• New York Giants’ trainer prepares about 100 different
defenses options before the mach and players train
them
10. The National Football League
The NFL or the National Football League, was
formed in 1920
Preeminent professional sports league in the U.S.
• 32 teams divided equally between two
conferences.
• 16 game regular season.
• 12 team playoffs that culminate in a
championship game
11. The Super Bowl
• The Championship Game of the NFL.
• Biggest annual sporting event in the U.S.
• Almost as famous now for the commercials as
it is for football.
• 30 seconds in 2010 cost
– $3.01 million
12. Fatnasy Football
• A game in which players (called “owners”)
draft individual players from the National
Football League onto their team and score
points based on their performance during a
given NFL season.
• Original idea - Bill Winkenbach – 1962
• Due to the growth of the Internet, fantasy
football has become far more popular in
America today than ever before.
13.
14. Pick Me
Comepetition for real players who want to be
chosen for Fantasy Leauge.
Commertial
(film 2 )
15. The League
The League is an American sitcom that premiered
on FX on October 29, 2009. The series, set in
Chicago, is a semi-improvised comedy about a
fantasy football league, its members, and their
everyday lives
The series revolves around six friends who
participate in a fantasy football league. The show
follows the friends, who will do anything to win,
while also dealing with a variety of situations that
occur in their everyday lives.
18. (LFL) is a women's 7-on-7 tackle, full contact
American football league, created in 2009,
with games played in the fall and winter at
NBA, NFL, NHL and MLS arenas and stadiums.
The league was founded by Mitch Mortaza.
The league's administrative offices are in West
Hollywood, California..
20. One of the most famous teams of LFL
• The Dallas Desire
21. One of the most famous teams of LFL
• The Los Angeles Temptation
22. Entertainment
• National Football League
Cheerleading, or simply NFL Cheerleading, is a
professional cheerleading league in the United States.
Twenty six of the 32 NFL teams include a cheerleading
squad in their franchise. Cheerleaders are a popular
attraction that can give a team more
coverage/airtime, popular local support and increased
media image. For the NFL, the Baltimore Colts were
the first team in the NFL to have cheerleaders in 1954.
They were also a part of the Baltimore Colts Marching
Band. Currently, six NFL teams have no cheerleaders.
24. Marching Bands
• Many College Football teams have marching
bands that play during the game at football
games and march on the field during halftime.
• Currently two teams have marching bands in
the NFL. The Washington Redskins have
featured a marching band since 1938, and the
Baltimore Ravens have featured a marching
band since 1996
