Could somebody please please please explain to me the rules of American football and how it is played.?
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See the link below for a thorough overview of the rules of American football.
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The National Football League (NFL) is the largest professional American football league, consisting of thirty-two teams from American cities and regions. The league was formed in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, which adopted the name "National Football League" in 1922. The NFL is one of the major professional sports leagues of North America.\n\nPrior to the 1960s, the most popular version of American football was played collegiately. After the 1958 NFL Championship Game (which went into overtime), the NFL's greatest spurt in popularity came in the 1960s and 1970s with the merger of the rival American Football League, or AFL (1960-1969).\n\nCurrently, the league's 32 teams are divided into two conferences: the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). Each conference is then further divided into four divisions consisting of four teams each.
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Hard to answer, because in the USA football is a whole different game than the soccer games that other countries call football.\n\nYou can probably find the answer at the website below.
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since this is the american football section, i will forgo giving you the objective of soccer. I will also try and keep my answer to less than 15,000 words.\n\nIn a nutshell, A football field is 100 yards in length and has an endzone on each end. The objective is to score as many points by advancing the ball in to the endzone either via a running play or a pass play or a change of possesion play ie punt return, kick return, interception or fumble. This is worth 6 points and is known as a touchdown. The team will then get a chance to kick an extra point through a goal post for 1 additional point or to advance the ball over the goal line from the 2 yd line for a 2 point conversion. \n\nA team can also score by kicking a fieldgoal through the goalposts in the back of the endzone. This is worth 3 points.\n\nA team has 4 downs (or plays) to advance the football ten yards, in which they will get another series of 4 downs. If they fail to do so they must turn the ball over to the other team either via a punt or on downs.\n\nA game lasts for 4 - 15 minute quarters. Team with the highest score at the end of the game wins.
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Here's a good web site that has all the rules. Good Luck and Have Fun!\n\nhttp://www.kickball.com/rules.html
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They are always running yes.\n\nBut its nothing like rugby.  Rugby is more like NFL as basically play from a line, both teams on opposite sides when the play starts.\n\nAussie Rules is not a stop start game, more like soccer in that respect, but where you can use hands, with tackling, hard hits, high flying catches (called marks) and generally high scoring goal kicking.\n\nIt's a great game to watch.\n\nAs far as telling you the rules, have you got 6 months?&#92;\n\nCheck out the AFL website or better yet, watch a game or highlights package.
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Football is a continuous flowing game i.e. the ball is always being kicked and moved around. However, there are situations when the ball is stopped and one player has time to kick it by himself (usually when there is a foul, offside or the ball crosses the line). Example: Free-kick, Corner-kick, Goal-kick, Throw-in etc. are types of set-pieces.
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American football is played on a field that is 120 yards long and 50 yards across i believe.  100 yards for the field and each endzone is 10 yards deep.\n\nI would like to add that i see that this is about Soccer so the size of the field would be 120yards x 60 yards.
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There are 2 links with the rules!! it will help ya understand\n\n\n\nhttp://www.soccerhelp.com/Soccer_Rules_Rules_Of_Soccer.shtml\n\n\n\nhttp://www.fifa.com/en/media/index/0,1369,105502,00.html
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Football is a team game. If a team wins or loses it is all due to the effort of the team, and not an individual player.\n\nThe only way one player can influence a losing game is to lose on purpose, which is match-fixing. Which is illegal.
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If you aren't in complete control of the ball then you haven't caught it yet.  These rules are just the NFL making the game more offense oriented.
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It's easy to understand, But hard to explain.\nCheck this PDF file (Laws of the Game and Decisions of the International Football Associations)\nFrom FIFA's official World Cup site\nhttp://eur.i1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/i/eu/fifa/lawen.pdf\n\nScroll to page18 in the PDF file (34 in the manual) to see the writing.\nOr page 31 (60 in the manual) to see some pictures.
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Anyway Rule #1 football is play with the foot!\ndon't pick it up and run!!!
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football is a contact sport, played on a 100 yard field. Like most other sports teams are separated into offenses and defenses. The offensive personnel attempt to take the football across the field 10 yards at a time. They have four attempts to travel at least 10 yards to renew the number of plays they have. On the fourth attempt they will usually either punt (to put the ball further on the other side of the field) or kick a field goal for 3 points. The offense moves the ball by either handing it to a running back, who tries to run with the ball until he is tackled.. Or throwing it to a reciever. The Quarterback is the center of the offense, and is the one doing all of the handing and passing.If the Quarterback misses the reciever it's an incomplete pass, and one of the 4 plays (called downs) is used up, without any yardage gained. If he misses his target, and one of the defenders catches it the other teams offense gets to take the field wherever the interceptor was tackled. If anyone ever drops the ball, it is called a fumble, and everyone will jump on it, if the defenders have possession of it, their offense takes the field, at whatever point the ball was. If the offensive players get on top of it first, it's a used down, and they have to start at wherever the ball is. At the end of the field there is a goal line, which the offense will try to get past it into the end zone score a touchdown.  If a reciever catches the ball, the defensive players will attempt to tackle him as well, before he can run past the goal line, and score a touchdown.  If a person is tackled for a loss of yardage, then it is added to the total that that offense has to acquire to sustain their drive. For instance, it's 1st down and 10 yards, then the Quarterback hands the ball to the halfback, but he is tackled three yards further back than they were. Now it is 2nd down and 13 yards. During passing plays the defensive players will either fall back and try to cover recievers so the quarterback can't throw to them, or blitz the quarterback and attempt to tackle him.\nDuring running plays you have almost the entire defense pursueing the ball-carrier. On each side there are 11 men. On the defense you have defensive linemen, who are usually really big and blitz almost every play. Linebackers who aren't as big, and both fall into coverage and blitz nearly equally, and defensive backs who are almost always in coverage. On the offense you have the offensive line, five men who block blitzing players, and attempt to open running lanes for ball carriers. Tight Ends, who both block and go out for passes. Wide recievers who almost always run out for passes. Running backs who carry the ball. And quarterbacks who throw the ball, run occasionally, and generally manage the offense.
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PRO-Football uses an OT of 15 mins, unless one team scores in that length of time then the game is over\nCOLLEGE Football uses an OT where each team gets a chance to score. If one team fails to score on their posssession and the other team doesn't then the that team wins. They don't have a clock on their OT.\nEither way it is 4 quarters at 15 minutes for regulation.
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There is a coin toss to determine who gets to recieve the ball and who kicks it off. Then there is a kickoff where one team kicks the ball to the other team and they recieve it, then they can run it up the field or call for a fair catch, or if its in the endzone, take a knee and start with the ball at their own 20 yard line.
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Rugby is played on a rectangular field and points are awarded for tries (when the ball is touched on the ground past the try line), conversions and field goals (when the ball is kicked through the goal posts above a horizontal bar). The ball can only be passed backwards.\n\nAustralian Rules is played on an oval field, there is no restriction on the direction of foot or hand passes and points are awarded for goals kicked through the two larger sticks or behinds kicked just missing the goals but within a smaller stick (two of which sit laterally to the goal posts). In Australian Rules a player must make an effort to dispose of the ball when tackled, which they need not do in rugby.\n\nIn Australia, rubgy is the main sport of New South Wales and Queensland, whilst Australian rules is the main sport of Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania.\n\nAnd for the record, the NFL has NO right to be referred to as football. I suggest cocky Americans take a good look at what's about to happen in Germany (at least support YOUR team!!!).