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Football being found/invented
So as people know the sport of American Football was invented on 11/06/1869, but as the founder, he was a former rugby player from Yale named Walter Camp. -
Athletics Club changing Football!!
The athletic club is a sponsor for sports, like for professionals, and they get paid. In the 1880s after the athletic club found out about American football, they continued to embrace football by finding athletic players, each club would stock their teams with the best players. As of today football players are getting expensive trophies, and offering an expense of money just to play football. -
First Person To Get Paid In Football
Another former Yale All-America player who was playing the guard position William Heffelfinger ended up getting paid $500 by the AAA against the PAC, which named him the first person to get paid for playing football. -
The First Football Player to get a Pro Contract!
The Pittsburgh athletic club decided to sign a player named Grant Dibert as he plays the Halfback position in American Football. Grant was named the first known player to get a pro contract when that contract covered all the PAC games for the year. -
First Player To Go Pro In Football
John Brallier accepted $10 and also expenses to play football for Latrobe YMCA against the Jeannette Athletic Club, then after John Brallier became the first pro football player. -
Scoring Points Being Changed
In 1998 instead of a touchdown being four points they ended up changing to a touchdown now being five points. -
Scoring Points Being Changed (Part 2)
Now in 1904, there was another scoring rule changed, instead of a field goal being five points it will be moved down to only four points. -
The New Name For Professional Football
Before the name for Professional Football got changed Curly Lambeau was promising to obey league rules, but instead wanted to buy back the franchise. Then the Packers and Lambeau went broke, and they had to get loans that were set to coach and manage. Then June 24 1922 The American Professional Football Association changed its name to the National Football League (NFL). -
The First Commissioner of The NFL
Before Elmer Layden was the first commissioner of the NFL, Elmer was a coach for Notre Dame, and he went with a 47-13-3, then lost his final season going 8-1. Elmer was serving a athletic director, but instead, he went ahead and agreed to leave and become the first NFL commissioner. -
New Equipment and Fred Gehrke New Design
First, in 1948 plastic helmets were prohibited because of bad injuries. Next, they added artificial trees were permitted for kickoff and the officials were given whistles, not horns to let the players know that the play was over. The running back Fred Gehrke of the Los Angeles Rams did paint horns on the Rams helmets, which made it the first modern helmet emblems. -
The First Encounter of The Overtime Rule
Overtime is a rule in an American Football game where both teams are tied at the end of the fourth quarter, and the only way to find the winner is to see who can score first in one quarter. Overtime was used in 1955 on August 28th, the pre-season game between the Rams and Giants In Portland Oregon. The Rams did end up winning the pre-season game with the score being 23-17. -
What Brought Football To The Audience
In 1980 the NFL wanted to start hosting games at London's Wembley Stadium. With that, the NFL brought out the sport to the audience across the country. -
The Most Watched Program
After the New England Patriots won their second Super Bowl after three years against the Carolina Panthers the score being 32-29 while being in Houston. It was Super Bowl XXXVII and the game was witnessed by 144.4 million viewers, then making Super Bowl XXXVII the most-watched program in U.S. television history. -
Advancing In Technology
American football ended up making some changes around to improve their gameplay and more player safety. Also, players intended to get concussions leading to rule changes. -
Professional American Football In COVID-19
As the pandemic COVID-19 came around a lot of sports, schools, food restaurants, etc, were to stay locked down for a moment then as the pandemic diel down people were required to wear masks and the NFL had to adapt to limited audiences, having to call testing protocols, and having to take, and changes teams schedules. This goes out to Little League football, middle/high school football, college football, etc. -
American Football Now 2023-2024
At least in the NFL scoring was down, there were 43.4 points a game, and that has been the lowest scoring in years. The refs have started to call more offensive penalties and less defensive penalties. College football is the same as the NFL except instead of needing two feet in like in the NFL. This coming season is going to be inside from all the NFL teams.