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The Start of a Football Game: The Kickoff
For American football fans, the opening kickoff is an exhilarating start to any game. They see the two-sided thrill of one team attempting to block the other, helping its returner run through, over, and [more…]
The Kickoff Rules of a Football Game
Like virtually everything else in football, kickoffs are strictly governed by a set of rules. In the kickoff, one team attempts to block the other and the kicking team wants to stop the returner inside [more…]
How a Team Returns the Kickoff in a Football Game
The ultimate purpose of a kickoff return in football is to score or advance the ball as close to midfield (or beyond it) as possible. A football team’s ability to start out on offense in better-than-average [more…]
Football Special Teams: Field Goals and PATs
In football, most special teams involve the placekicker or field goal kicker. But other members of a football team participate in field goal and extra point attempts. Read on to see what makes a kick count [more…]
Football Special Teams: How to Block Field Goals and PATs
Blocking either a PAT or a field goal attempt in a football game can change the momentum of that game and eventually decide its outcome. To block kicks, defensive players must be dedicated, athletic, and [more…]
Football Special Teams: Players on a Punt Team
The punter isn’t the only important player during a punt play in an American football game — although it may seem like it sometimes, especially on a bad punt. Here are some of the other key performers: [more…]
The Punt Rules of a Football Game
Punting in American football, which is when a team kicks the ball to relinquish possession to the other team, occurs when a team’s offense is struggling. Like with everything else in football, punting [more…]
Football Special Teams: How to Return a Punt
Punt returning in American football isn’t always as exciting as returning a kickoff because the distance between the team punting and the punt returner isn’t as great. Returning a punt for positive yards [more…]
The Coaching Staff in American Football
Almost every American football team has more than one coach. Including strength and conditioning coaches, the typical NFL team averages 15 assistant coaches. [more…]
How to Listen to an American Football Game on the Radio
Every NFL team and most major college American football teams have a local radio station that owns the rights to the teams’ broadcasts. And because of the popularity of sports talk radio, many fans want [more…]
Sign Up Your Kids for Youth Football
Depending on where you live in the United States, your child has multiple options for playing youth football. When you sign up your child for youth football, you need a copy of his birth certificate and [more…]
The Rules of High School Football
Some high school principals believe that football is the most important extracurricular activity on campus. Every state in the U.S. has its own high school federation or association that governs high school [more…]
NCAA Football Teams
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the governing body of college athletics, reports that more than 650 member colleges fielded football teams during the 2010 season. These colleges are [more…]
College Football Conferences
American college football teams play most of their games against schools in their own conferences. The best-known Division I FBS college football conferences are the Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC [more…]
The Football College Bowl Championship Series
In 1998, six major college football conferences — ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10, and SEC — instituted the Bowl Championship Series, or BCS. The BCS is a playoff system that attempts to determine [more…]
Professional Football Player Designations
The National Football League owners and the NFL Players Association (the union that represents the interests of the players) have agreed upon certain terms when discussing the status of a football player [more…]
Professional American Football Leagues besides the NFL
The National Football League (NFL) isn’t the only professional American football league. Diehard American football fans can watch games in the summer months, football’s traditional offseason, and watch [more…]
How Receivers Beat Man-to-Man Coverage
Man-to-man coverage in American football is a style in which one football player guards (or defends) another. The defender covers a single receiver no matter where he runs. His responsibility is to make [more…]
The Quarterback's Hand Off and Grip
In a football game, one of the most important things for a quarterback to learn is the running game and how it affects his steps from center. Some running plays call for the quarterback to open his right [more…]
The Quarterback's Stance, Drop Back, and Hand Off
In a football game, a quarterback begins each offensive play with his stance behind the center and his hands under the center. The center snaps the football back to the quarterback, as shown in this figure [more…]
Football's Offensive Team: The Receivers
Wide receivers and tight ends are the principal players who catch passes in American football, although running backs also are used extensively in every passing offense. Receivers come in all sizes and [more…]
Difficult Situations an Offensive Line May Face in Football
An American football coach — or a quarterback, for that matter — sometimes needs to lead his football team’s offense out of the sticky situations that arise. Offenses use these strategies to gain the necessary [more…]
Important Fantasy Football Draft Reminders
The success of your fantasy football team hinges on your draft picks. Use the following draft strategies to minimize risk, maximize gain, and make the tough decisions when it comes to fantasy football [more…]
Fantasy Football Coaching Tips
After you’ve built your fantasy football team through the draft, your job truly begins. Coaching your team means compiling a complete lineup each and every week and deciding which players to pick up and [more…]
Fantasy Football Trading Tactics
During the fantasy football season, you’ll want to trade players to upgrade some weaknesses in certain positions on your team roster. When trading, you target a player and then decide what you’re willing [more…]
