how has technology affected football?
955240
yes players can hear their coaches voices in their helmets they can look at the big screen to see who is chasing them they also have all kinds of new weighlifting programs and supplements to make them faster so hell yea
549733
What for? Football? Rugby? ETc..
584874
Technology, Rapid spread of information.
802336
Roflcopter.\n\nSame amount as there are in European/Latino football.
1178547
American football\n\nHere is why \nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht5w6NoznUc&mode=related&search=
5921
Size of the players.  In the early part of the twentieth century too many people were killed so they kept adding padding and added passing.\n\nThe style of play is different too.
994237
The thing is this. If there is technology, use it. It's not like it's going to spoil the game and its legacy; au contraire, it will most certainly enhance the credibility of the refs and make the game fairer for all the fans and players alike. Refereeing this WC has seen some of its uglier sides, stomping chances of certain countries who have most certainly worked their butts off for this. \n\nThe refusal of FIFA to make full use of the available tech is really exasperating, if not just downright stupid.
1009178
Video replay definitely needs to be a part of 2010, not for every little incident but merely for 'did the ball cross the line'. The stakes are so huge in football nowdays that it is vital to make the right decisions, refs are only human, i dont think the standard has dropped its just that the pressures on them have become too great. It would literally take seconds to decide whether the ball had crossed the line and how often is the decision going to have to be made, not very often. Technology is there, let it be used.
337414
Football.  The most interesting in my opinion.
1056395
football is in a way a warrior occupation of money ...so similar to religion. If one can't state facts about how one knows what things really are and how people heading these religions really are now all the information is out... not wonder all is in such a state
1120582
Penalty kicks and home field advantage...everywhere.
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Football basics.  See the below link.  Enjoy!\nhttp://www.playfootball.com/footballfacts/basics.html
719805
History and development\n\n    See also: Football\n\nThe Laws of the Game are based on efforts made in the mid-19th century to standardise the rules of the widely varying games of football played at the independent schools of England. The first set of rules resembling the modern game were produced at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1848, at a meeting attended by representatives from Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester and Shrewsbury, but they were far from universally adopted. During the 1850s, many clubs were formed, throughout the English-speaking world, independent of schools or universities, to play various forms of football. Some came up with their own distinct codes of rules, most notably the Sheffield Football Club (formed by former pupils from Harrow) in 1857, which led to formation of a Sheffield FA in 1867. In 1862, John Charles Thring of Uppingham School also devised an influential set of rules.\n\nThese efforts contributed to the formation of The Football Association (The FA) in 1863 which first met on the morning of 26 October 1863 at the Freemason's Tavern in Great Queen Street, London[2]. The only school to be represented on this occasion was Charterhouse. The Freemason's Tavern was the setting for five more meetings between October and December, which eventually produced the first comprehensive set of rules. At the final meeting, the first FA treasurer, who was the representative from Blackheath, withdrew his club from the FA over the removal of two draft rules at the previous meeting, the first which allowed for the running with the ball in hand and the second, obstructing such a run by hacking (kicking an opponent in the shins), tripping and holding. Other English rugby clubs followed this lead and did not join the FA but instead in 1871 formed the Rugby Football Union. The eleven remaining clubs, under the charge of Ebenezer Cobb Morley, went on to ratify the original fourteen rules of the game. Despite this, the Sheffield FA played by its own rules until the 1870s.\n\nToday the laws of the game are determined by the International Football Association Board (IFAB). The Board was formed in 1886[3] after a meeting in Manchester of The Football Association, the Scottish Football Association, the Football Association of Wales, and the Irish Football Association.\n\nThe world's first football league was founded in England in 1888 by Aston Villa director, William McGregor[4]. The original format contained 12 clubs from the Midlands and the North of England.\n\nThe Fédération Internationale de Football Association FIFA, the international football body, was formed in Paris in 1904 and declared that they would adhere to the rules laid down by the IFAB. The growing popularity of the international game led to the admittance of FIFA representatives to the IFAB in 1913. Today the board is made up of four representatives from FIFA and one representative from each of the four British associations.
111112
It continues to impact use.  Since the internet is part of telecommunication in the broader sense, it has affected you right now as you are reading this.  The distance between people grows less and less everyday.
1152193
Rugby!! No pu$$y protective gear like in American football. It's significantly more physical and requires more braincells to play.
1068521
That may work in the USA. But it will Never be Implemented outside the USA. People will argue that this is what makes the game so Unpredictable. That's where the Excitement comes into the game. One wrong call and a team can loose or win a Game.The Officials on the pitch during a game gives it that human touch. that Machines would and should not replace. Must admit i myself like to blame the Officials rather than my team for playing badly. LOL.
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In medieval England there used to be a chaotic game which football is based on - all the yokels would kick a sheep's bladder around the place from one end of the village to the other. \n\nHowever, other countries developed their own game involving kicking a ball so it's hard to say where it definitively started.