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Article #108: Why Is America So Fascinated With Football?

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The American football style has developed Super Bowl is one of the biggest
from a combination of rugby and soccer. attractions on television, as it is the
Football is much younger and developed finals for each season of football. It
only in the nineteenth century. This is attracts millions of spectators even from
one of the most popular sports in the Canada.
United States. American football attracts The Super Bowl is a big source of revenue
millions of spectators and thousands of for the television channels as they
enthusiastic players. charge a huge amount for advertising.
Football has a unique tradition in the Every second of the Super Bowl is made
US. American football is like an interesting, especially the star- studded
institution in the people of USA. half time which is remarkable to watch.
Football gets the center stage of Many wonder why football is so popular in
students' activity in the high school. the United States. Some attribute it to
The entire school comes to back their the violence. The tackles can be so rough
team during tournaments. The homecoming that players often end up with
games and dances are nearly bigger than debilitating injuries. People also often
prom. The quarterback of the football enjoy anticipating the next move in the
team is the most popular guy in the game. Those spectators who have played at
school. some time in their lives like to imagine
Football rules are fairly complex. Those what strategy they would invoke in any
who don't understand them, or care, can given situation. Another popular pastime
find the game slow moving and boring. On during games is to yell at the coaches
the surface it looks like running and anytime a play goes wrong.
tackling is all the players do, but Football continues to draw more people
actually the strategy is difficult and into the excitement of professional
confusing. The coaches and assistants sport. Football is just as popular if not
spend years studying offensive and more so than the nation past time of
defensive moves that go into making baseball and of hockey. Canadians play
touchdowns. Often they aren't given their own brand of football, with
enough credit for their hard work. slightly different rules. However, the
Professional football began way back in sport of football has not seen nearly the
1895 in Pennsylvania. Within the next ten same amount of popularity in Canada as it
years more teams emerged and colleges has in the United States.
started creating football teams as well. Football is introduced to many when they
The American Football Association formed are just small children and it's not just
in 1920, but two years later became known a game for boys anymore. Girl's teams are
as the National Football League. sprouting up all over the place and are
The NFL and football are very popular in proving that any gender can play any
the US and has given many superstars and sport, and play it well.
celebrities to American Football. The






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