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<blockquote data-quote="Ulrik" data-source="post: 3111593" data-attributes="member: 32128"><p>I'm <strong>not</strong> an american, but I do like that thing they call football! (And I think what the rest of the world calls football sucks <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> )</p><p></p><p>Anyway, nfl.com has a handy <a href="http://www.nfl.com/fans/rules/basics" target="_blank">guide</a> </p><p></p><p>Basically, one team tries to move the ball, either by giving it to one player (the running back) who runs as far upfield as he can before he gets pulled down (ie getting tackled), or the quarterback tries to throw the ball to one of his recievers. The rest of the team tries to block the defenders (ie pushing them around, and keeping them away from the glory boys). The other team tries to stop them of course.</p><p></p><p>The most important difference between football and rugby is - not the helmets, as you might think - but the concept of downs. A team gets four tries (downs) to advance the ball ten yards. Once the ball carrier is down, play stops, and the teams line up on each side of the ball, which is placed where the ball carrier was when he was tackled. This takes some time getting used to if you normally watch things like football (rest of the world version).</p><p></p><p>You get 6 points for moving the ball into the opponents endzone, or 3 points for kicking it between the uprights (and over the bar, not under it as everybody else does).</p><p></p><p>I'm sure there are lots of americans who are willing to chime in once they wake up <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ulrik, post: 3111593, member: 32128"] I'm [B]not[/B] an american, but I do like that thing they call football! (And I think what the rest of the world calls football sucks :p ) Anyway, nfl.com has a handy [URL=http://www.nfl.com/fans/rules/basics]guide[/URL] Basically, one team tries to move the ball, either by giving it to one player (the running back) who runs as far upfield as he can before he gets pulled down (ie getting tackled), or the quarterback tries to throw the ball to one of his recievers. The rest of the team tries to block the defenders (ie pushing them around, and keeping them away from the glory boys). The other team tries to stop them of course. The most important difference between football and rugby is - not the helmets, as you might think - but the concept of downs. A team gets four tries (downs) to advance the ball ten yards. Once the ball carrier is down, play stops, and the teams line up on each side of the ball, which is placed where the ball carrier was when he was tackled. This takes some time getting used to if you normally watch things like football (rest of the world version). You get 6 points for moving the ball into the opponents endzone, or 3 points for kicking it between the uprights (and over the bar, not under it as everybody else does). I'm sure there are lots of americans who are willing to chime in once they wake up :) [/QUOTE]
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