why in the football game, the ball just one?
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r u stupid!!!\nif all da players have a ball then it wont be a game!!\ngo kill ur self!!!!!
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Presumably either a) a defender played the ball back, or b) the ball wasn't totally out before the goalie touched it - in the view of the referee.\n\nOn the line in association football is not out of play, unlike for instance rugby union, where on the line is out.
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If the intercepting player established possession at his own one-yard line, and then fumbles from here:  It is a touchback if the ball travels out of the end zone.  \n\nIf the defensive player does not clearly intercept the ball before fumbling, then the offense retains possession. \n\nIf the defensive player intercepts the ball at the one, then enters into his end zone himself:  His team is legally allowed to shoot him.  (Well it should be legal!)
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I found a lot of different answers online. But according to five different sources, every NFL game is equipped with 24 footballs. (Plus, I remember reading that in a recent Sports Illustrated.)\n\nAccording to the NFL Rules Digest, "The home club shall have 36 balls for outdoor games and 24 for indoor games available for testing with a pressure gauge by the referee two hours prior to the starting time of the game to meet with League requirements. Twelve (12) new footballs, sealed in a special box and shipped by the manufacturer, will be opened in the officials’ locker room two hours prior to the starting time of the game. These balls are to be specially marked with the letter "k" and used exclusively for the kicking game."
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because it's easy to play it in comparaison with other sport.\nthe football ,you can play it by anythink (bottle,small rock,...) but the basketball for example need a specila ball the sme for volleyball,tennis, handball,....\nfor that the footabll start to be teh popular sports in the world
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They can trace it back to some teams being 27 v 27.  In 1863, a firm set of rules were finally written and they stated that each team should only have 11.  This appears to be the first set of written rules that stated the maximum number of players to be on the field at 1 time.
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The football is under the laws of projectile motion which is governed by the laws of gravity. However, in reality, it is much more complicated. It also involves air resistance and the ball's spin.\n\nIf you thing of air itself as a kind of "road" (a soft road), then it is possible to "drive" on this soft road by spinning. So in truth, there is a path that the ball is heading, that is the projectile motion. BUT, there is also another motion that the spin is moving on the "soft air road" which will make it deviate from the "projectile path". The greater the spin, the greater the deviation.\n\nAdditionally, if one can time a spin such that it influences the ball up to a certain point and then stops influencing it (the spin stops in mid air), you can imagine that kind of trick this can have on the ball's motion. It may travel along a path and suddenly deviate from it (for example, like a dip). So the motion of the banana kick can take on very curved paths, depending on the skills of the player who knows how to manipulate contact with the ball itself, resulting in the desired spin, velocity and terminating conditions of the ball's trajectory.
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i guess its just something that caught on...... like  how in football there is a red zone........ no more red than in any other part of the field!!
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Foot ball is meant to be played with your feet, kicking a ball into a goal with 11 people in a team, lol. When a player from the other team is between your goalkeeper and your last man he will be seen as being offside
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Cos the other guy played and your only allowed 1 goalkeeper at a time
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The footballs are used in different ways and they look different.
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Not to Americans...because our football is a very different sport.  \n\nHaving said that, I never understood why we called our game foot ball, as there are only 2-4 players in the game that ever touch the ball with there feet.
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Football (or soccer as you call it), has never been, and never will be, a game where the scores run into double figures. That's half the excitement/heartbreak of it. Knowing that a game can turn in a split second, with one incident.\n\nIt's because of this that it's unique in it's universal appeal for hundreds of millions of people, from all races and cultures.\n\nAnd if you look closely enough, you could say all sports are linked. Most use some kind of ball and are played in a specific, marked out area.
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If it kicks the same way, responds the same way on the field - why would the design on it matter?\n\nThe game is about which team plays best - not about the ball itself.
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11 players on the field for each team on offense and defense, 22 total per play. At the start of the game, the team that wins the coin flip chooses whether to receive the ball at the start of the game, or kick to the other team at the start, and get it after halftime. Kickoffs occur at the start of the game, after halftime, and after either team scores. \nScoring: There are 3 types of scoring in football. The touchdown is when a team gets the ball into the end zone they are aiming for, through a catch or run. common, worth 6 points. after TD, the scoring team can either kick the ball through the uprights for an additional 1 point(very common), or try to get the ball in the end zone again from the two yard line for 2 points (very rare, used mainly when trying to catch up to other team, and in desperate need of points)\nThe field goal is when a team has their kicker kick the ball through the uprights(Y shaped metal bars. common, worth 3 pints\nThe safety is when team b's defense tackles the player on team A with the ball in Team As own endzone. rare, and worth 2 points\nOffense: a team has 4 tries to get 10 yardseach try is called a down. if, after 4 tries, team A fails to convert for 10 yards, team B gets the ball right where team A last had it. If, after 3 tries, Team A doesn't want to take chance on 4th down, (when if they miss, they will lose the ball), they can punt the ball, where the punter catches the ball from throguh the legs of a player at the line of scrimmage (yard-line where last play ended) tosses it up in the air about a foot, and kicks it to the other end of the field. when team A is punting, team b puts a player at the other end of the field, and that player will catch the punt, and either attempt to return it the other way, or call a fair catch, where the other team can't tackle him, and team B gets the ball right where their player caught it. \nOffensive positions: Quarterback-throws the ball to receiver\nWide receiver-catches quarterback's throws\nRunning Back - QB hands off or tosses ball to him, and he runs as far as he can\nFullback - blocks other players from tackling RB\nTight End - like a wide receiver, only slower and tougher, used to get short yardage more than for long gains.\nOffensive Lineman - prevent defense from tackling QB\n\nDefense: Team A is now on defense. Team B can throw or Run. If team b decides to throw, team A can intercept the ball, or, in other words catch the other team's QB's throw, and try to return it for a TD. They can also sack the QB, or, in other words, tackle him behind the line of scrimmage. another defensive play is when the offensive player in possession of the ball fumbles, or loses possession of the ball, at which point the ball is free game, and whoever picks it up recovers it, and gives possession to their offense if the defense recovers, or retains possesion if the offense recovers.\nDefensive players: Corner backs-cover wide receivers to try to prevent them from catching the ball\nSafeties-go deep downfield, assist CB's in preventing pass completions\nLinebackers - usually stay near line of scrimmage, try to sack QB or prevent long running plays.\nDefensive Lineman. Right at line of scrimmage, try to sack QB.\n\nSpecial Teams - Kicking - covers kickoffs, field goals, and extra pints(after TD's.)\nPunting - already explained.\n\nPenalties are also applied to either team based on many reasons, some of which are holding(holding of opponent), false start(going past line of scrimmage before ball is snapped), and pass interference(prevention of another player of having a chance to catch the ball ex: tackling a player before the ball gets there, which takes out any chance of him catching it). Penalties applied by referees.\n\nPlays can also be challenged by either head coach. ex: palyer makes a sideline catch, but ruled out of bound by referees on the grounds that one foot was out of bounds. head coach can challenge ruling. if overturned, t
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The English. They would have a game which was a free-for-all over the whole town. This was then borken down by a few private schools to two different sets of games, Football(soccer) to play with your feet and Rugby Football (rugby) to play with your hands. All the time the ball can only be passed backwards. Up intill now different folk played in different ways so a few of the schools, in order to be able to play against one another they got together and agreed some rules. The main one being that up until now the ball can only be passed backwards so in order to allow the ball to go forward they invented the offside rule for this to be alowed.
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Everytime a team gets the 10 yards they get a new set of downs.  Since you start counting with 1 and not 2, it's a first down.  It's common sense.