Football is a sport that is loved by Americans. It is a exciting sport to view and to enjoy anytime of the day. The sport of Football is rough and contains a lot of hard hitting and endurance. The sport itself is viewed by more people than any other sport in America. Even though the game of Baseball was and is still highly loved by Americans, Football is now dominating the polls, "Baseball is what we were, Football is what we have become."#
Walter Camp is known as the father of Football. He made the Football field 120 yards long by 75 yards wide, with the goal posts 24 feet apart. All of the goals made by the athletes counted as one point. The Football was not even a normal size in fact it was 6 inches longer than today’s football
Football teaches athletes to be disciplined and how to work hard in any other sport they do. Coaches love to coach athletes that are disciplined and that want and know how to work hard in what they do. Football gives athletes this opportunity to get on the coaches good side. Even if the players who play Football don’t get anything else out of the sport, "Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it."
Football is a hard sport. It involves conditioning, hot heat outside, hard hitting, cuts, and bruises and most likely a broken bone or two. Sounds like a lot of fun. The majority of people begin playing Football at the age of eight