why are there stripes on the college football and not on the pro football?
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Wilson is the official ball of the NFL and does not have the stripes you are talking about.  The NCAA loves endorsement money (just don't give it the players), so companies like Nike can pay for their ball to be on the field.
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Simply put..\n\nThere are more rules in American football than any other professional sport..  You almost need a PhD to understand every rule..  That's the first reason..\n\nSecond is passion as a kid..  you becoime passionate about the sports you are exposed to as a youth..  every kid in the united states that went to high school knows someone who played high school football..  your school and your city pride was always at stake every Friday night..  \n\nBy the time you leave high school, it becomes your university and your state's pride in college..\n\nThat doesn;t exist with American football any where else in the world..  \n\nSoccer, on the other hand, it's very similar..  every town, every school every region in most countries have teams that represent in the same fashion as high school and college football do here..\n\nBut take the vast majority of the life long soccer fans from any region of the world and introduce them to football, most..  not all, but most will find the game very confusing, difficult to follow and the number one question which I hear from so many Euro and South American friends is why is it called football when they only use their foot less than 25% of the time.,.\n\nBottom line is what do you grow up with..  People in Georgia or Mississippi have a hard time following the NHL because they have no connection..  the same, to a lesser extent, to the people in Wisconson, or Minnesota with NASCAR..    Football is widely followed here in the US..  but most Germans have no clue what the difference between a forward pass and an audible is
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the nfl should not let reggie bush wear the number 5 jersey for the same reason they did not let edgerrin james wear the number 5 when he came into the league.  there are rules that are set by the company you must follow.  you are a professional in the nfl, its not like college where a defensive lineman can wear number 9, mario williams.  if the league lets bush wear number 5 then you will see a boat load of players wanting to wear whatever number they want to wear.  then the nfl will look like college football.  it is fine the way it is, follow company rules bush.
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Yes, absolutely. It would end the controversy over who is the champion each year. College football is the only NCAA sport that doesn't have such a championship. There might be some conflict with the Bowls but I am sure that could be worked out. Certainly, sportscasters are keen to see it happen so I think it will eventually.
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College is a lot better.  The rivalries are better.  The players seem more excited to play.  \nThink about rivalry weeks of college football even the horrible teams play great games against rivals.  These rivals never change unlike pro football.  What games can you think of in the pros that match these:\nOhio St. vs. Michigan,  Bama vs. Tennessee, Army vs. Navy, Florida vs. FSU,  ND vs. USC...there are so many.  Pro football doesn't have that.
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The college ones are bigger (bigger players...LOL!) and have more padding, but usually smaller and more flexible/stronger materials. High schools cannot afford to purchase the kind of padding and materials that most colleges can. College unis would be about the same as most Pro Football teams.
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Tigers don't change their stripes.\n\nOur C.I.A. doesn't get to play by those rules anymore.
767759
Yeah, there are differences in the rules between college football and the National Football League, especially in how game time is managed.\n\nA rule change this year in the college game, starting the gameclock when the ball is placed in position on the line of scrimmage is getting lots of complaints from all sides, with alot of teams getting surprised, looking up and seeing the clock running, when it wasn't last year.  \nIt is intended to quicken the game, since now, "official reviews" of the accuracy of previous plays often takes up time, but never, never game-time.  \nIt's riduculous, if you ask me, for this rule change.  \nAnd as for differences in the game rules which seem to benefit Professional players, hey--it is only because now they are just older, slower, and puffing Oxygen more!\n\nPlus, did you ever realize that everyone of those guys on the field, each Sunday, is a Millionaire?  DIFFERENT Rules for the rich, that's what it is, since they can't have rules which might make them lose $$$...!\n\nDat's all, man, that it is.  Different rulz for the old rich farts.\n(and now a word from our sponser....)
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Flag football is a version of American football that is popular across the United States and Europe. The basic rules of the game are similar to those of the professional game, but instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from the ball carrier ("deflagging") to end a down. In most organized play, players wear a belt with flags around the waist, but the number of flags vary from league to league.\n\nLike touch football, flag football was designed in an effort to minimize injuries that playing tackle football could bring. Over the years, however, contact leagues have emerged, where offensive and defensive players can block in certain zones or downfield, adding to the myriad styles of the game.\n\nThe game is now common among many high school gym classes as an alternative to contact sports.
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Its a weird lighthouse. There is a cement lighthouse in one corner of the stadium and it produces a computerized light that will say touchdown, flag, its good etc... I don't know why it looks so demented on the field but its a lighthouse. Go Pats!
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Some teams will use them some will not.  I have heard of some schools College and High school giving out the stickers for starting a game.  Each one will be different and it is tough to tell what they are for.  I have seen some schools that have different stickers that meant differnt things.  On the other hand some schools will have the same sticker and award for there goals.  I do know that at Georgia they have white dog bones for good plays and the Black ones are for academics.
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cause if you look like it it looks like a banner like you see people holding at footballmatches for example, they have a rectangualr peice of cloth with stuff about there team on it, in other words they are advartising there football team.
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Never heard of it, but I guess it has something to do with the college marshall since this ? is in football.
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College football is a whole lot better.  You get to see well practiced men fight for victory without all of them being in it for the money.  The professionals seem to showboat and only rarely will there be an interesting play.
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Helmet stickers reward college football players' superior performance.\n\nFormer Ohio State coach Woody Hayes is the accepted pioneer, devising the idea along with trainer Ernie Biggs in 1968.\n\nHelmet stickers, or pride stickers as they're called in some locales, were born.\n\n"Those Buckeye leaves are tradition. That sums it up," said Ohio State product Ben Hartsock, an Ohio native and former Indianapolis Colts tight end who was picked up by Tennessee this week. "Every kid growing up, whatever era he came through, their idol had Buckeye leaves, if it was Archie Griffin, Eddie George or Craig Krenzel. As a child growing up, those Buckeye leaves meant success.\n\n"I remember getting my first one. They were always team-oriented. It was never a competitive thing, it was just kind of something that the team knew that if you're helmet was getting full, the team was doing well."\n\nToday, Ohio State gives them out for key performances on special teams, offense or defense. Coach Jim Tressel's website — available for $49.95 per year — keeps a complete list of how many Buckeye leaves each player has won and the criteria for winning them.\n\n"I think it's something that has been stored here for quite some time," Tressel said. "The size of the leaf has changed. The criteria of how you get them has changed many, many times.\n\n"I think it's something our guys take pride in, not so much to display on their helmet but seeing how many they can accumulate."\n\nCincinnati began giving helmet stickers this fall, joining others in one of the college football's endearing traditions of awarding decals to players or units who make great plays and meet team goals.\n\nGeorgia now gives out a white bone for football excellence and a black one for academics.\n\nLouisiana-Lafayette prefers a cajun pepper that appears as the apostrophe in its nickname Ragin' Cajuns.\n\nClemson awards a paw print. North Carolina State gives out a blood-tipped wolf's fang. East Carolina, a pirate skull. Vanderbilt pastes small black ship anchors on its helmets.\n\nPurdue previously used train logos, but switched to Purdue Pete stickers this year.
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For sports like football and basketball, it's critical that the two teams look different. Imagine the chaos if every football player wore a white jersey-- the quarterback would never know who to pass to, the linemen wouldn't know who to block, etc. That's why each team has to have at least two different jersey colors.\n\nIt's not that important for baseball, since it's pretty obvious who is on offense and who is on defense. It's just been baseball tradition that the road team wears some kind of gray uniform. That dates back to days when laundry facilities on the road were a little suspect, so teams wore gray unis to hide the dirt a little better.
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Well guess what, the Browns don't have any either. Besides, they are a distraction to our longstanding tradition. As far as changing the helment design...If it ain't broke, don't fix it! Because of the lack of tradition in today's football, the game has been changed due to new driving force of the game...money! It's nice to see teams, such as the World Champion Pittsburgh Steelers to hold on to traditional values, because that what gives a team it's true identity. Our core of values is what makes Pittsburgh so easy to identify and respect. So I can speak for all the the diehards, don't change a thing!