Football is a great sport…especially the NFL. It has been my preferred spectator sport considering the fact that I was a tiny girl, sitting on my Dad’s lap watching his preferred team play. There is anything so excellent (in particular if you have a favored group) about listening to the thousands of men and women in the stadium cheer, or sometimes boo, when a touchdown is scored or the defense intercepts the ball. OK, I know if you are reading this you are in all probability a girl wanting to know a lot more about the sport, so what I just mentioned may possibly not make much sense to you. But, have no fear! I am right here to give you a brief guide to football so you can impress your boyfriend, or to have more enjoyable hanging out with your husband on a Sunday afternoon when he’s watching the game.

This know-how comes from 40 years of watching football, and despite the fact that I under no circumstances played (I WAS a cheerleader for numerous years and that is as close as we girls can get), I have earned the respect of a lot of a man by figuring out my stuff about football. I’m also way far more obsessed about my favourite group than most men I know!

#1 – The object of the game is to outscore the opponent by advancing the football into your end zone scoring as several touchdowns as achievable. This is done by the OFFENSE. Meanwhile, the DEFENSE tries with all their may to quit the offense from scoring a touchdown.

There are 2 end zones on the playing field – 1 for every single team. They are situated at each and every finish of the field exactly where the purpose posts are located (hopefully no explanation needed right here).

A TOUCHDOWN is worth six points and is scored when a player catches or carries the ball into their finish zone. Soon after scoring a touchdown, an attempt to kick an extra point via the objective posts is produced. If thriving, it is worth 1 point and tends to make it a total of 7 points scored in that series.

Yet another way to score is referred to as a FIELD Target. If a team thinks they won’t be capable to make it in the finish zone for a touchdown (for numerous motives), they may possibly try to score by kicking a field target, and it is worth three points.

#two. – Remain with me here. Every single group has a series of DOWNS in order to get the ball to their end of the field to score. A team has to take the ball 10 yards each and every time to be capable to advance, and they have four attempts to do so. For instance, the team begins the series with the ball on the 20 yard line. They run the ball for three yards and get tackled (see, you happen to be understanding the lingo!). They still have 7 yards to go to make the 1st DOWN. Let’s say the subsequent play they go 9 yards, this implies they not only get a Initial DOWN, they get to get started more than with what is named a 1ST AND ten….which signifies one more first down and 10 yards to go to get yet another 1ST AND ten, and so on. If 7m does not make the 10 yards within the 4 attempts, they have to kick the ball to the other group. It is essentially a little more involved then this, but I am just attempting to give you the pretty fundamentals!

#three – When the OFFENSE is trying to score a TOUCHDOWN by passing and/or operating the ball toward their end zone, the DEFENSE is trying to stop the other group from advancing! This is accomplished by TACKLING the OFFENSIVE players, trying to SACK THE QUARTERBACK, or attempting to INTERCEPT the ball while it is getting thrown. This is also more difficult than described, but the extra you watch the extra you’ll catch on!

#4 – In the NFL, a game is made up of four QUARTERS. Each and every QUARTER is 15:00 minutes lengthy (I’m certain you will notice that it really is not in fact 15 minutes in true-time). It goes like this 1ST QUARTER, 2ND QUARTER, HALFTIME, 3RD QUARTER and 4TH QUARTER. If, when the game is more than and there is a tie, it will go into OVERTIME and the first team to score will win.

Properly, this is a pretty basic and broad description of the game of football. I hope it’s a get started toward you feeling comfy with watching a game! Most of the girls I know that never like football, merely have no clue to what the sport is about, substantially much less know any of the details or lingo. I really really feel that if they had a small extra information about the game, they may possibly come across it exciting to watch…plus a lot of guys assume a football-watching girl is a sexy thing!