@@mikehermen3036 on the really rare occasion if there's a 3rd infraction seen and he's already thrown the flag, and his hat he must use his shirt to mark the third infraction.
@@resurrectedgaming7144 Also don't forget if the penalty is against your team it's a bad call, and the refs are really fucking your team with that bullshit.
It doesn't mark the spot where it happened, they just throw it when there is a penalty, the blue bean bag shows a change of possession. The coach for each team can throw a red challenge flag 2 times per game (3 if they win both challenges)
A wise American football coach said "Football is like playing chess, slowly, stragegically, and with lots of media interruptions, with Sumo wrestlers and Olympic sprinters". The sport has caught on in Europe because frankly we need all body types and European futbol has pretty much one body type it requires. Fat, massive British blokes and German giants finally find a place. Skinny but fast kids who can outrun all their friends now have a role. Our coaches carry charts around with mathematically calculated probabilities of success for a certain plays with certain amounts of time, yards, and staff remaining, those often computed by genius professors at their university or by paid consultants. 🏈🏈🏈🏈
Ehhhhhh not exactly. Pro linemen work very hard to maintain a specific weight, which is mostly muscle. They can't just be heavy, they need to be strong and quick. They can't be as fast as ball carriers and secondary defenders, but they need to be able to move around to be effective. It's shocking how fast someone that's 6'6" and 280 pounds can be.
As a European and a hard core NFL fan ( GO BIRDS!) i like the sumo wrestling analogy. An american football game is like 100 sumo wrestling bouts compacted into 3h. Every single down is a clash of 22 of the fittest people on the planet, specialized in what they do going at it. It takes a while (read years) to be able to truly appreciate the amount of individual bouts, feats and amazing physical achievemtn one single play in NFL takes.
One thing you kinda have to do when taking into consideration franchises, college football, etc is think about the United States as Europe instead of the UK. 32 teams in the entire continent of Europe. Say you have a team in Warsaw that isn’t making much money, so you just move the team to Munich to bring more fans to games. Same for the appeal of college football. I live in a city of about 200,000 people with about a million in the surrounding area. We don’t have an NFL team within 3 hours of the city, so we all watch the major college team in the city. Plus it’s fun to follow the players from high school to college to the pros if they’re lucky enough to make it
As far as fan segregation, most of the time it’s not necessary. Sometimes it’s done as tradition. For example, in college football, the annual game between Oklahoma and Texas is played at a neutral venue halfway between the two schools. The tickets are sold with half going to the fans of each school, with a dividing line along the 50 yard line. You can see the line in the stadium by the colors the fans are wearing. It’s pretty cool to see in person.
I think in the pros, that it's mostly not achievable now because of the secondary ticket market. The ticket box no longer gets to regulate it. Colleges cans till do it by restricting ticket and entry to student ID's.
20:20 Football is essentially a lifetime thing. But the best of the best generally the road begins in High School. The better you do there the more high-end colleges want you and the better you do in college the more the NFL will want you when it's time to enter that NFL Draft.
Yeah, there are something like 24,000 high schools in the US with a significant amount, if not an outright majority, playing football. There are almost 900 college football teams in 5 different divisions, with 130 Division I-A (Football Bowl Subdivision or FBS) schools. All funneling down into the 32 NFL teams.
Imagine if any Brit took this guy's advice and rooted for the Jags last year with Urban Meyer as their coach!! I cannot think of an easier way for someone to never give football a chance again!
@@McClintonforThree And outside of that one year what have they done in the past decade and a half? Not necessarily saying the Jags have no shot at a future, just that there are quite a few teams with a brighter one. It'll be interesting to see how Lawrence does with a much much much much more competent coaching staff.
American football (AF) evolved from soccer and rugby. The first AF game was played in 1869 between two college teams, Rutgers and Princeton, using rules based on the rules of soccer at the time. A set of rule changes drawn up from 1880 onward by Walter Camp, the "Father of American Football", established the snap, the line of scrimmage, eleven-player teams, and the concept of downs. Later rule changes legalized the forward pass, created the neutral zone and specified the size and shape of the football.
Our version of Rugby football was very brutal, to the point that fatalities were a regular occurance. Imagine, for instance, that you got the ball out of the scrum, and your teammates basicaly all grabbed you and tried to drag you through the defense toward the goalline. The President of the United States said, "fix this or we'll ban it," and the rules changes they made more or less created the nacent version of what became modern American football.
Someone once said: "Football is not a "Contact" sport. Football, is a "Collision" sport." That is very true, heavy contact happens between the majority of the players on the field, every play. Because of the "start - stop" nature of the play, there is an emphasis on quickness and power. much like sprinters vs distance runners.
Halftime shows are mostly reserved for college games when the respective marching bands come out and do their halftime show. In regards to the NFL, you really won't see halftime SHOWS unless it's for a bigger game like the Super Bowl, Thanksgiving games or a game being played overseas. Otherwise halftime is generally just random events or competitions the home team puts on (for example: a random person from the crowd tries to kick a 40 yard field goal for X amount of dollars or a car or whatever). Looking forward to seeing you get more into the sport. There are a lot of rules/oddities/things needing explanation but it usually makes for a good time to drink some beer like any sport and if you start understanding parts of it, it only gets better! You will certainly have to react to some college games and traditions as, in my opinion, college football has a far more rabid following where college stadiums usually dwarf the size of professional stadiums. The professional stadiums are more consistent in their seating capacity being anywhere from the smallest of 61,500 (Soldier Field - Chicago Bears) to the largest of 82,500 (MetLife Stadium - NY Giants & NY Jets). For college you will find a much larger range of capacities. For the FBS division the smallest stadium is 10,000 (Clarence T. C. Ching Athletics Complex - University of Hawai'i Warriors) and the largest 107,601 (Michigan Stadium - University of Michigan Wolverines). The NFL attendance record stands at 112,376 played in Mexico City and the college record being 156,990 played in Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee. Edit: Regarding home and away sections, you won't really see that at all at the professional level but some college teams do have reserved sections of the stadium where tickets are mostly allocated for away fans (usually areas of the stadium like upper decks that won't be seen during the majority of the televised plays). That being said away fans still can get tickets to any part of the stadium and sit among home team fans. Fights do happen but are generally pretty rare and get broken up quickly.
Tailgate party, some people don't even go into the stadium, they just hang out in the parking lot, cook food and watch the game on a big screen from the back of their truck or SUV. Just go to an NFL game and hang out outside, don't even need to buy a ticket.
Rugby: run parallel with each other and do a lot of form tackles. Football: 250 lbs+ men running at each other full speed, basically spearing the torso and lower body with occasional form tackles. Edit: if you're looking for some NFL related stuff for the channel, you could try. 1: NFL Highlights of games (good luck with copyright though) 2: UrinatingTree: "This week in Sportsball" (satirical, but good to get the overview of games) 3: Chisled Adonis "Game Highlight Commentary" (also satirical and a lot of inside jokes, but good overview of games)
Very rarely, American football will revert to its rugby origins, when a losing team in the final seconds might try to throw/pitch a series of "laterals" (i.e. throwing the ball backward; if thrown forward it would be an illegal pass and the play would be effectively over) among teammates as they run down the field trying to avoid being tackled. Either the player carrying the ball gets a touchdown or the game is over with the team losing. Notoriously the University of California Golden Bears beat the Stanford University Cardinal in the last four seconds of their game back in 1982 with this kind of unscripted rugby-type play.
Hello from Kansas City! (Chiefs) I simply can't express how insane the entire city becomes from September to January. The statues are draped in red jerseys; the skyscrapers and bridges glow red, even the fountains run red - like the blood of our enemies!!!! No, but for real. They really do all that stuff and so much more. Football is the great unifier lol
Yes, college football is effectively the training ground for professional football. In fact, we have even rewritten are rules to allow college players to be paid and get endorsements prior to reaching the NFL. Basically, the biggest thing to remember is the best players run an injury risk so really great college players are balancing a risk/reward strategy where they try to stay healthy enough to make it to the pros while also playing great in enough games to show why they deserve to be playing in the pros as well.
We have a salary cap, meaning teams can only spend up to a certain amount. It really, honestly doesn't come directly from team owners pocket. All NFL owners have an agreement with the league to split revenue for games (not other promotions) equally among the teams. The yearly cut is typically higher than the salary cap. There is an owner, Dan Snyder of the Washington Commanders who was caught skimming off the top and is under (what may turn or may have already turned legal) investigation now. The salary cap is set in stone and in order to make sure they can sign all the needed players, good teams don't go overboard. I'm a Steelers fan and for example, a probowl level (all star) running back, top 3 in the league held out for a year over not getting the contract he wanted. The Steelers recognize no one player is bigger than the team so you cant let that sink the ship. Giving too much to one player means not only are you skimping on other quality players, it breeds a bad locker room when other players are doing as much or more being paid a fraction. Unfortunately, the booming mid 90s economy saw ticket prices go up, players getting paid exorbitant amounts of money. In se cases, well paid vet players have even been willing to restructure contracts taking pay cuts sometimes in order to get a specific player spot filled with a quality person. You see this when it's a playoff caliber team that is weak in a specific area, maybe need one piece to be a championship contender.
College football is absolutely massive, the 3rd biggest stadium in the world and the biggest stadium outside of Asia is a college football stadium, Michigan Stadium which holds 106,000 people. College stadiums are huge and multiple of them hold over 100,000 people and people are just as passionate for college football if not more passionate then people are for the NFL. I would rather see my college football team do well and win the league than see my NFL team win the league.
I believe the 10 biggest stadiums in the US are all college stadiums as well. College culture isn't that big where I live, we have the Bay Area teams to cheer for after all, and there really aren't any that play in the big college divisions near me. I would need to live closer to LA and that's a nightmare scenario for me lol
Pregame tailgating; air force flyovers, halftime shows. NFL stadiums (SoFi Stadium in LA, AT&T in Dallas, Mercedes Atlanta, Allegiant in Vegas) are gorgeous & expensive. College stadiums are huge (about 8 of 'em seat over 100K); each school's traditions are unique (e.g., chuck wagons on the field after a score).
There is a short break between the first and second quarter. And the third and fourth quarter. A couple of commercials, and brief update on the game so far. Half time, between 2nd and 3rd quarter is actually quit long. Time to go to the washroom, make a sandwich, and stock the cooler next to your chair.
To answer your question about how many “goes” it takes to get down the field, basically as long as you keep getting across that yellow line you get a fresh set of attempts. It is limited only when you get to within 10 yards of the endzone (where you score). To achieve a first down (fresh set of attempts) you must always gain 10 yards, of course being within 10 yards of the endzone means it is no longer possible to achieve a first down and you must score within your next 4 attempts. I hope that wasn’t confusing and answers your question.
And when you think you have seen it all, you receive a punt on about the 4-inch line. Your QB takes the snap from the center, and the QB gives the football to your RB inside the opponent's endzone. It is a basic draw play. And Tony Dorsett runs 102 yards down the field for a touchdown. That's a one-down play.
In theory, without penalties, if you drove 99 yards, taking all 4 downs each series and only gaining exactly the line-to-make, the maximum would 40 plays ("goes"). As far as I know, no one has ever had anywhere near that. More than 10 plays is considered a sustained drive, the longest drives can approach 20 plays.
I love it when people from Europe react to American Football. It’s always great to watch😂 also no the fans aren’t segregated that’s the beauty. The yellow flag is a penalty flag like the cards they use in soccer. You were almost right on the draft. The worst teams in the league get the first few picks of the next draft. People can make it to the nfl without going to college but you have to wait 3 years out of high school to do so and it’s extremely difficult. Teams moving cities is never a easy thing at all. Cleveland browns in the 90s, the Baltimore colts, the Raiders moving from Oakland, the Rams leaving St. Louis. It’s never easy for the fans. Finally finished the video and it was a great video and honestly I’d suggest getting into the NFL it’s awesome to watch💯
Some numbers for you, from a former player, former coach of American Style Football. Keep in mind, the primary difference between American Football and Rugby or Soccer, in American Football you run AT each other and not with each other. Rugby is a contact sport, football is a collision sport. According to Popular Mechanics, The average sack of the Quarterback can produce a bone rattling 1600 lbs of force. According to IBA, the average NFL player gets an average 50 hits to the head, each with a force of 40 times the force of gravity. They say that being hit by a linebacker is equal to being hit by a car at 36 mph..
@@titaneyes1 I've been hit by plenty of linebackers. The worst I suffered was a few contusions and a concussion. I've been hit in an intersection by an SUV going 20 mph. Broken bones. It's simple physics.
I think the main reason it was called football was because when it was first played there was no forward pass. You only ran the ball. So the only way the ball was moved was with your feet. This changed when there were many deaths related to collisions and they wanted to make the sport safer with passing.
The video you reacted to seemed more like an advert for ESPN and Fantasy Football than actually informative. I looked at a few other NFL rules videos and I think "The Rules of American Football - EXPLAINED! (NFL)" is both informative, and short enough to grab everyone's attention if you want to try that. As this video said, there are just tons and tons of rules in football, but this video gave the basics without trying to swamp you with a bunch of the rules. You honestly pick up the most used rules as you watch more games.
I am 50 years old, and I still remember the words my first football coach told me when I was 8 years old. "We give you pads NOT to stop you from being hurt. We give you pads to REDUCE the amount of pain you will fell. Get used to them."
Honestly I think you've got one of the best reaction channels on UA-cam because you actually have meaningful commentary on each of your videos. I'm a history buff, so your history reaction videos and commentary are always great but I enjoy the NFL stuff just as much
The number of "Go's'" (officially called plays or downs) it takes to get the to end zone can vary greatly. Sometimes a team is only about to gain a small amount of yards on each play, so they take 12 or 13 plays to get to the end zone. Sometimes a team will make a huge gain and get to the end zone in just one play.
Penalties and sacks (tackling the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage "for a loss") means you have to regain the lost yardage (major penalties are 15 yards) so technically you can gain, and then lose, and gain and lose, and gain and lose several times just to get to mid-field. As long as you gain that ultimate 10 yards from where you started within 4 downs, the count is reset. General rule of thumb, you try three times to get a first down and if you don't make it kick on 4th down. That puts the other team deep into their own end of the field OR you can try a field goal (worth 3 points). There are dozens upon dozens of decisions that are made ON EVERY PLAY. Which players are going onto the field, your passing teammates or your running teammates? Which players does the defense have on the field. Are the defensive backs missing coverage, eg: not guarding one of your better receivers when they are in one of a dozen or more variations of formations. Does the defense pull out a good run defender and substitute a better pass defender because you are now in a 3rd down and a 50 foot tape measure distance to go, something usually solved with a pass.
Technically soccer was extremely popular in the US in the 1910s-20s when the ASL (American Soccer Leauge) was around BUT due to the Great Depression, the ASL folded. Soccer would then be massively overshadowed by the NFL, MLB, NBA ect. Had the Great Depression not happened soccer probably would have been one of the most popular sports in the US.
And politics between the league and the USFA and FIFA because of cup matches ending with FIFA declaring them an outlaw league and the USFA creating a competitor.
Yeah the NFL and basically every American sports games do not separate fans and fights rarely happen. It’s more of an event you can take a young child to and you wouldn’t expect people to be cursing loudly or being belligerent. For the most part they are pretty family friendly events.
High school to college to NFL. With each step up, a lot of players drop out or are eliminated by competition so that you have an elite corps left over to be available for the draft. There are wildcards and walk-ons - players not chosen in the draft, or who try out for a certain position if the team is willing to do that - but the vast majority (more than 99% I guess) go thru high school to college to NFL. And, of course, before high school, lots of these players have been playing in flag football (no contact) or little league football since they were 5 years old. So, yes, college is a training ground, but it is also the final filter the players go thru to test their ability to play in the NFL.
The Jags are my favorite underdog team. I root for em every year and hope one day they get to compete for the Lombardi trophy. I would love to see the NFL expand into Europe and it'd be awesome if they just did another expansion. 1995 the Jaguars and the Panthers were added as teams to the NFL and the Texans are the latest team who joined in 2001. So it isn't unprecedented to add new teams to the league
Though, with the league being 32 teams, with 8 divisions of 4 teams each, it's hard for me to see another expansion, unless they let 4 teams in at once, or majorly realign the conferences.
What you have to understand is that our football grew almost concurrently with your football (both association and rugby), and that all of them owe their origin to mob football. All versions of the game basically took mob football and then added rules to condense the game to something that could be played in a single field (instead of over a whole town) and in a few hours (instead of one or multiple days). So no, our football isn't just a different version of rugby just like rugby didn't actually start when someone picked up the ball and ran with it during a soccer match. The rules for the early history of the games were not really set in a rule book but decided by the participants. You can kind of think of it like drinking games where there are general rules, but you might also show up to a place that has a variation. If you like it, then you keep it and it spreads. If you don't like it, it doesn't spread. Eventually enough things change to make it a distinctive game. We can see this in the earliest history of football here when the colleges report going to other colleges to play and playing with different rules, which they then might adopt. The earliest rules were similar to the rules of soccer at the time, but also allowed blocking. This resulted in human wedges trampling each other as the main tactic, which led to a ton of deaths. So the university presidents outlawed the game. But time heals all wounds, so a few years later the sport was brought back. One of the first games was played against a Canadian college which was playing with rules much closer to rugby. The American team decided they liked those rules more, so they started using those instead of the soccer rules. The real main point of departure from European football versions came as the solution to more deaths occurring during play. Instead of trampling the ball carrier to get the ball back, the system of downs was created to give a way for the defense to get the ball while also allowing the ball carrier to not get trampled. They also decided that in order to stop the mass formations from just running into each other, they would allow teams to throw the ball forward and run with it if they caught it. This forced the defense to spread out over the field instead of putting everyone near the ball. And that was basically it. That was the point of deviation. The problem with all mob football games was that they were too violent, so each version of the game came up with their own way of solving it. Soccer said you can't handle the ball which makes dispossessing easier. Rugby disallowed blocking which meant only the ball carrier would get hit, which also spread out the field by making the other players find someway to be useful which was to spread out to receive the pass, which then forced defenses to spread out to cover them, which meant fewer hits on the ball carrier. 3 sports grew out of 3 unique solutions to the problem of one sport. Oh, and the original mob football was called "football" not because they kicked a ball with their feet, but because it was a ball game played on feet. Some of the earliest rules of football discovered specifically outlaw kicking the ball.
The basics is this (in a not so long winded way like the guy in the video): to start the game a place kicker will kick the ball to the other team as far as he can. The team that gets that ball starts their possession as 1st and 10. Meaning 1st play and they need 10 yards to get another 1st down. If on 1st and 10 they run a play and get 6 yards before they’re taken down. Now, they’re on 2nd and 4. So their 2nd attempt they need 4 yards to get back to 1st and 10. If they can’t get 10 yards before 4 attempts, they have to kick the ball either to the other team and lose possession, or if they’re close enough they can kick a field goal through those big yellow poles, worth 3 points. If they keep getting their 10 yards and get all the way to their end zone, they get 6 points.
7:15 in California where the game was, Weed is legal and in a lot of states now weed is legal for recreational use and in almost all states it is legal for medical use and can be prescribed for certain pains and illnesses.
I happen to live in Southern California and we have multiple teams. Los Angeles currently has two NFL teams and yes fans can be split and fan fights are just part of the entertainment. Many people will travel to see their teams play in different states. I have a few friends that are trying to make it to most if not all of the stadiums. That's not just with the NFL as fans will travel to see baseball, basketball, etc... we are a big country, we have a lot of sports and we have many places to go see it.
The season schedule consists of weekly matchups for every team... 3 preseason matchups in August which mean nothing and allow teams to try out rookies and new additions... and 17 regular season matchups over 18 weeks September - January come rain, snow, sleet, sun, arctic freeze... only being canceled for natural disaster and lightning... the most common weekly schedule is one match Thursday, one match the following Monday and all the rest played from morning to night on Sundays... After the regular season, the top seeds from each division (usually with a record of 10-7 to possibly 17-0) and a few wild card teams compete in a single elimination playoff tournament with weekly games throughout January... culminating in the penultimate NFC and AFC conference championships and 2 weeks later into February the Super Bowl between the winners of those two aforementioned games to determine NFL CHAMPION!
As an NFL fan, I believe the Jaguars would be a perfect team for London. They haven't had much success in their nearly 30 year team history, and their south coastal region already has quite a few teams... Carolina Panthers (385 miles north), Atlanta Falcons (348 miles NW), Tampa Bay Buccaneers (201 miles SW), & Miami Dolphins (331 miles south)... and for today's trivia, the farthest team from them being the Seattle Seahawks (3,015 miles NW).
Fun video!!! I need to find a cricket for American’s video like this. I watch a lot of BBC murder mysteries like Midsomer Murders, Father Brown, etc. and it comes up often enough I need to learn what’s happening. Lol
Attending an NFL game is a very special experience, especially if the home team is doing well. Thousands of people show up at the stadium hours early so they can 'tailgate,' which is enormous, raucous pre-game party in the parking lot. The grill hot dogs and burgers, drink beer, play games, and get charged up with their team's other fans in the lot. In Kansas City, where I live, local restaurants will cater big tailgating parties, especially with barbecue (which Kansas City is famous for). As the kickoff (start of the game) approaches, the enthusiastic mob make their way into the stadium, drink more beer, and hype each other up even more. I don't have a word except 'turgid' to describe the atmosphere, which is inadequate to convey the contagious enthusiasm. They'' sing, chant, be entertained by the mascot, until they're in a near-frenzied state for the kickoff. After that, it gets LOUD. 70000 or 80000 people put up a continuous roar, especially when the opposing team has the ball. A home crowd can often make so much noise that the opposing team is unable to communicate on the field, which causes sloppy plays and penalties that help the home team. This goes on for three hours. If the home team wins, the jovial crowd return to the parking lot and try to remember where their vehicle was parked. Then they pile out onto the highways in a drunken stampede and become a city-wide traffic snarl for two hours after. It's an experience everybody should have at least once, but tickets and parking have become so expensive that only people of means can afford to attend the game; some people just pay to park and watch the game on electronics brought from home. What we almost never have is brawls between supporters of the opposing team, and mostly they just engage in generally good-natured ribbing. I think the reason that soccer fans riot and NFL fans don't is that - let's face it - a soccer game can go a long time without anything really spectacular taking place. So soccer fans vent their built-up fervor and hostility in the stands. Whereas American Football has so much violence on the field - usually sanctioned - that the fans get their rage released cathartically by just watching the play.
60 years ago, pro American sports would have one or two teams dominate an era. I do think the parity makes sports more enjoyable for a larger segment of the population. Consider the size of the US, and how uninteresting a sport could become if the dominant team was located 2500 miles away and only came to your area to play 2 or 3 times in a decade. Florida has 3 NFL teams, the Jags won't be missed. They're the newest of the 3.
@@jd3thegreat Who knows if he'll turn out to be great or not. It's always a crapshoot when it comes to the draft. We had Alex Smith, a true genius in every sense of the word and earned a 7 year degree in less than 4 years, but he was a bust for the 49ers. We could have had Aaron Rodgers, but the team itself was in such disarray we likely would have ruined him too. You gotta take into account the offensive coordinator, the intelligence of the player and their ability to quickly grasp and adapt to the playbook and whether or not they can be a field general. An amazing college player could be a bottom of the barrel professional. I hope he'll be an amazing, super bowl champion caliber QB, but I'll never assume a prospect is anything more until they prove otherwise
Without getting into sources I think your understanding of the history of football is generally correct. American colleges played forms of rugby but with varying rules and they would meet and agree on the rules prior to the match which led to weird games of people not knowing the rules. And then in the 20s they just kinda decided on the more stop and go football we know today
The players being miked up isn’t broadcast during the games, it’s usually used for later edits and entertainment shorts to promote the team and the league, and they are very entertaining. Usually each game, they select a couple of players to mike up. In addition, the quarterback helmet and the middle linebacker helmet are always miked and has a built in headset for the purpose of communicating play calls with the coaches on the sideline, and it’s their responsibility to communicate the plays to the rest of the team, or to call an audible and change the play or coverage.
To me, you sound like a Baltimore fan. Years ago, Baltimore’s team up and moved, almost overnight, with no warning. Baltimore fans were (rightly) outraged at their new owner, and his decision to take the team to Indianapolis, where they started a reign as the most dominant force in the AFC South (one of four groups of four teams making up half of the divisions of the 32 team NFL), rivaling Tom Brady’s Patriots (cheaters) in the AFC (half the teams in the NFL) for Superbowl appearances and almost wins. The new Indianapolis Colts were great, on the back of their QB, Peyton Manning, and his exceptional ball placement and comeback skills, but enough about my favorite team (they moved here so we had a local team, don’t hate me for switching out of my cheese hat to root local, blame the Baltimore Colts’ owner for stealing a team away). So Baltimore fans were left with a new team, to fit their stadium, and hope. That’s all they had, besides a growing hatred for team moves, and a resentment of the stellar Colts squad. Tom and his cheaters were still more hated by the 15 other teams in the AFC, for good reason. They were very hard to beat, they had a quarterback every bit as good as Peyton, and on top of that, they still felt the need to cheat to win, paying fines for getting caught multiple times, while their owner has dinner with the guy in charge of the whole league. Half a million here or there didn’t matter, as long is they got their wins. In fact, from 1996 to 2018, three teams won the AFC Championship (and because of that earned a spot at the Super Bowl), the Baltimore Ravens winning twice, but the remaining years were split between the Indianapolis Colts, the New England Patriots, the Denver Broncos, and the Pittsburgh Steelers. 10 of those went to the Patriots, Denver got 4, the Steelers got 3 of those (4 if you start a year before where I started, I picked that year before knowing exactly what point I was making), and the Colts only made it there twice, losing to the Patriots before that point in the postseason most years. We beat them on the way once, and won the next game (Super Bowl) as well. From 2002, when the AFC South was formed, to 2014, one of my last years watching the NFL, the Colts didn’t win the division only four times. Since then, they haven’t won the AFC South Championship, but 8 out of 12 wasn’t bad, and they were the only team from this division to win a Super Bowl (it would’ve been three if it hadn’t been for Tom’s nearly unpunished cheating). But that’s the kind of turmoil and rifts caused by a team moving silently and sneakily at will, and the biggest opposition to moves being allowed, as far as I’ve heard from fans, is the fans from Baltimore. They got robbed as hard as the Colts have been robbed by the Patriots. That Manning lineup could’ve existed as the new Baltimore Colts, and that dynasty of dominance would have belonged to the city that gave birth to the Colts franchise. The Ravens were no slouches either, as their two AFC Championships were both followed by the big win (in that arbitrary set of years). Some still claim that the Ravens were better anyway, but I almost guarantee that those individuals didn’t watch Colts games in their entirety, and they’re basing that opinion as observers from highlights and statistics, and super bowl victories. In short, your philosophies on sports, moving teams, and liking to root for a team that can win (I imagine) seems to be a great fit for a Baltimore fan. After all, they were original Colonians. And anything is better than rooting for proven, busted cheaters, like the New England Patriots. Come at me, Pats fans, you can’t refute any of this history of the AFC (the more offensively focused half of the NFL).
Hi, I am so sorry to hear that you have Covid-19. I hope you get better really quickly. I really enjoyed that video and found it interesting and I don’t even watch Football that often. A brand new professional football league called the U.S.F.L. started this week. They will play during the NFL’s off season, so they won’t have to compete directly with them. This league was tried in the 1980’s and it failed after only three years because Football is difficult to play in warm weather, so it will be interesting to see how it does this time around.
Yikes, I would hate to be padded up and running for 3 hours straight in the dead of summer. I live in the California Valley and it's unbearable without cover
In regards to college sports, yes. They are essentially a training league for pro sports. Most notably American football and basketball. But only a small percentage of the players go pro because there are just so many college teams. NFL players are required play college ball before draft eligibility. But some players in basketball went pro straight out of high school. LeBron James and Kobe Bryant are probably the most famous ones who went pro immediately after school.
The stadium regulates itself. There’s an agreed measure of civility. Generally you can wear an opposing team’s jersey in a sea of home fans. Unless you’re in Philadelphia
Or an obnoxious Vikings fan in Chicago. If Bears and Packers fans can get along while tailgating, why do Vikings fans have to cause problems when they come to Chicago?
@@curtisfranzen986 Because Bears fans feel flattered that Packers fans still consider them to be a worthy opponent. But everybody knows the Vikings just suck.
@@BennysThoughts Plus, I think both fan bases have the mentality that you bring twice as much food as you need, and 3 times the beer. Nothing says "we're all cool" than swopping brats and ribs while sharing cold beer.
@@curtisfranzen986 What's really funny is when someone shows up in Lions gear and, rather than heaping a whole huge pile of shit on them, all three fan bases basically just treat them like their buddy's retarded half-brother and just kind of politely smile and nod.
@@BennysThoughts I wouldn't go that far, because I'm delusional about talent when it comes to the Bears. But Ya'all up in GB must get traveling Vikings fans as well? What is your take on some of them?
17:30 Salary Caps have a lot to do with keeping it from being a pay to win game. It seems to me that a Super Bowl winning team is likely to be split up because every player on that team now wants more money on their next contract, and the salary cap for the team won't let them pay that extra amount to their entire lineup, so some players may look elsewhere for that higher pay. The rotation you mentioned is the NFL Draft and Draft Picks, but I don't know much about that except it's how Rookie (first year) players get into the league. EDIT: The video he was watching covered part of this. I just commented too soon.
I recommend doing a reaction video to NFL “mic’d up” vids on UA-cam. It really gives you a look into players and their personalities and the spirit of the game. A lot of trash talk, friendly banter, joking, laughing and just fun stuff.
In America, you don’t have to go to college in order to join the NFL…but it is almost impossible to get into the NFL without going to college. High schools take middle school American football seriously. Colleges take high school American football seriously. The NFL takes college football seriously. That’s how it works. High schools get players from middle schools, colleges get players from high schools, The NFL gets players from college.
Sundays during Football season is holy time. Its a whole day event if you go, You have tail gating prior to the game, the game and then getting home to watch the night game with the boys. Big to do for many, all fall well past the new year.
The only NFL game I ever went to was a preseason game between the 49ers and the Raiders. There was 11 fights in the stands, a stabbing in the bathroom and a shooting after the game. Good times
Going to a football game takes up the whole day, so when most people attend they lean into it and show up early and set up bbq grills in the parking lot to "Tailgate" before the game,we also always bring tons of booze. For a 1pm start my friends and I get there by 10 to light the grill and start drinking. Burgers, dogs potato salad and macaroni salad usually, but we have done boneless pork loin, pork ribs, NY strip steaks, prime rib, lobster tails, shrimp. One time we picked up a 200 count bag of cherry stone clams and just stood there almost too drunk to remain upright with needle nose pliers in one hand and a beer in the other waiting for the clams on the grill to open up. Everyone tries to out do each other with the quality of food they manage to cook in a parking lot. One guy who attends games at Giant Stadium always parks in parking section 123 and brings a 280 gallon heating oil tank that has been converted into a pig roaster. It is built into a trailer he hauls behind his pickup truck. He is there by 3 am to start cooking but his bus full of friends from the bar shows up around 10 am like my friends and I. They own an old school bus but it's painted Giants blue and red instead of yellow and black.
22:50 As a browns fan I can confirm that in the mid 90s the owner of the Browns moved the team to Baltimore and to make things worse a few years after the team moved they won a Super bowl. We eventually got our team back in 1999
They actually mic players up in hockey these days, as well. It results in some interesting exchanges at times. There can actually be teams that are dominant for years on end, but because of the salary cap, the trick is for management to find players interested in the glory of winning and willing to take a bit less pay to be on a team with more star players than any other team.
30:30-31:00 is the best part of the video. lol Yes we have 4 quarters and adverts are played in the middle of quarters. In fact. Adverts are played at every time out, every turn over, 2 minute drill, after every kick off, before every kick off, during a challenge of a play, during a review of a play. Adverts are everywhere in American football. Or football2. That is why Americans love to BBQ or cook during football games, because you can easily walk away from the tv every time your team doesn’t have the ball or an advert is on tv. As soon as you hear the commentating again, you can go back to watch.
NFL regular season doesn't start until September. Super Bowls have huge halftime shows, other NFL games vary quite a bit. Some will even have children's leagues play exhibition games for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Or pay tribute to a person or group. Or have a sponsored fan contest based on throwing or kicking. College Football, which is just as popular (and more in some areas) will often have marching band performances during halftime.
Personally I like having a salary cap in American football. The NBA and baseball both don’t have hard salary caps and are much more boring as a result. It makes club management more important bc they have to get creative.
BTW, just over 1 million teenage boys play High School football annually. About 55 will receive a “5-star” rating. That signifies an elite talent. A can’t miss prospect. That player will receive offers to play College Football anywhere they want. Several hundred get 4 star, and then you get into lesser rankings. From the 1 million boys that play High School football about 30k go on to play Division 1 College Football. División 1 football is where nearly every NFL player comes from. After that, 255 players are drafted by the NFL to “try out”. Of those about 85% will either never make a team, be a lower tier or sub par player and only last a few seasons at best.
All of our sports have the aspect of the worst team drafting the best player in the first round. For example in the NFL, the #32 team gets the first pick of the first round, #31 gets the second pick and so on until the #1 team gets the 32nd pick of the first round, but then it reverses for the second round. Reverses again for the third round, and so on for all six rounds. But the draft typically only picks up 6 players for each team. Not usually enough to turn a team around by itself. So teams actually trade draft pickls for players that are already established. And you'll end up with one team getting seveal pick iun a round for giving up a start player. Players who don't get drafted can try to make the pro teams during the summer training camp, but most who don't get drafted (and a few who do) get cut before the season begins. There is a reality TV show in the US called Hard Knocks about NFL training camp where they follow the players through the uncertainty. Teams can only have 53 players in the NFL and when you consider there are 11 starting players on offense, 11 starting players on defense, and back ups for each, that's 44 players. All teams typically have a kick off kicker, a field goal and extra point kicker, and a punter. So that's already 47 out of 53 players. The rest are reserves or "special teams" players who block and tackle on kickoffs and punts and wait until anothe player is injured to ge to play. When players are cut from a team they become "free agents" meaning any one can sign them to a contract for whatever they can negotiate. Those who don't get signed can often be on a team's "practice squad" to help the team get ready for the games but they don't get to travel with the team or enjoy the big money or the union benefits of being on an NFL team. It just keeps them close to the team in case a player gets hurt or leaves so they can get a chance to sign a contract. The real "socialism" of the game comes in the revenues. Because the teams in the largest media markets (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, etc) make the most money they would get the best players every year if not for revenue sharing and the salary caps. Revenue sharing involves teams sharing the TV revenues and merchandise revenues along a pre-defined percentage, and salary caps prevent a team from spending substantially more than other teams. Essentially (with some exceptions) teams are limited in how much they can spend on player salaries. So let's say the team cap is $208 million per year (as it was in 2022) and your best player makes $38 million, all the other 52 players have to share the remaining $170 million. Finding the balance to field a great team is difficult so all teams are essentially designed to be a middle level team but a few stars here and there make all the difference. Honestly the difference between teh best team in hte league and the worst might be one or two players in the right position or a coach who's a little bit better than theother coaches. A team with 2 wins and 15 loses may compete very well with a team that has 15 wins and 2 losses for most of the game. So to acquire and keep players, contracts have to be structured in weird ways. Players get a certain amount guaranteed at signing or get a singing bonus which is not part of their salary, or they take pay for a long time after they leave a team, and if trded the subsequent team has that obligation to pay them. Some players are declared "franchise players" which exempts them from the salary cap but also prevents them from being traded and prevents them from getting as high a salary as they could make on the open market.
You asked about how they acquire players. At the start of the league year there is a free agent period where teams can sign unsigned players or trade for players. Then we have the draft where the team that finished worst gets the first pick of college players that entered the draft and the team that won the Super Bowl gets the 32nd pick and each team picks in order depending on how they finished the season before. The can also trade draft picks. After the draft is over there is a period where teams will sign players that went undrafted as undrafted free agents. Then there's another free agency period where trades can be made or players that are unsigned can be be signed. Trades can be made until around the 5th or 6th week of the new season, but players can still be signed at any point in time. There is a salary cap that each team MUST observe. Each year the league sets the cap and you may not spend more than that cap. If you trade a player that still has for example 2 years left on his contract and he is owed $20,000,000 then the team that traded him will be assessed $10,000,000 in "dead cap money" or "cap money" against the total cap for the remaining 2 years of that players contract.
When you pass the "yellow line" where ever you get downed is the new start point to measure the next 10 yards. To answer how many sets of 4 tries you get all depends on how far passed the yellow line you get before you are stopped by the defense. Some times you just barely get over the line and sometimes you can run all the way to the endzone. Most players come from Uni teams and some don't even graduate before they are drafted. There have been players that didn't go to college that made the NFL but it is far more common to come from a school. In fact they will often introduce the starting lineup by the players saying which school they attended.
Most sports broadcast on American markets have adverts timed for natural breaks in play such as injuries, time outs, planned breaks, intermission, and so on. Some games include tv breaks where the station can either cut to commentary or cut to adverts. In that last instance, it is considered a planned/ accepted time out that both teams can take advantage of. Breaks can include can competitions add mentioned (eg a random fan is invited to try a game skill), or a cultural item by a local organization, college, or school like a marching band, acrobatic team, local singer or band, or a performing arts group or school/ class. For instance, my high school had an athletic gymnastics squad that would do a halftime show for the local NBA team once or twice most years, that sort of thing is pretty common all over the country in most pro sports. A lot of local and amateur talent are invited to do these sort of events.
20:13 Less than 1% of college football players make it to the NFL and even then, they'll have to compete to get in and stay in. NFL stands for (Not For Long). The average NFL career is 4-5 years. The NFL is an elite sport. The goal of the NFL is to have a Messi or CR level player at each position. Does it achieve that, no but it strives for it. It’s a chess game, 75% strategic. An individual sport within a team concept. The most TEAM sport in all of sports.
Just so you are aware, the Jaguars are not moving. The city of Jacksonville and Shad are committed to keeping the Jaguars in town. That is why they have agreed to a proposed 1.2 BILLION dollar stadium rebuild. This process would take about two seasons to complete. They aren’t tearing it down, but generally taking it down to the bones and expanding the Concorde around it, adding a teal tented glass roof, upon other architectural features, like a fake jungle that looks so real you’d think you’re in the Amazon. It’s all about the atmosphere and I think they are gunnkng to compete with So-Fi stadium.
Another point about the NFL, your size, speed and athleticism is always a factor, however, every position has its own baseline for what is expected and what a player may be compared to. Offensive linemen for example are often the biggest and heaviest players, and are expected to have certain physical traits and athletic qualities. Quarterbacks have a different baseline for height and weight, skills and athletic features, as well as running backs, who are often shorter and more mobile, but still strong and fast. Wide receivers can be various heights, but of course are expected to have physical traits or athletic skills to help their game. Each defensive position has its own baseline. Each football player only plays one position, at most 2, and it’s usually an offensive position, or a defensive position, and the special teams crew is made up of a few specialty players, and a few layers from both sides of the ball. The sport is very very intricate.
In American professional sports, there is generally no segregation between the home and away fans (like in football in Europe) because the number of away fans tends to be small due to the distances involved. Fans of visiting teams normally sit amongst the home fans and usually there's no trouble other than a bit of banter... possibly escalating to verbal abuse. Security, stewards, and police are ever present during most games, so they step in quickly if it esacalates to something worse. Perhaps the one time you will have a dedicated section of away fans in American sport is in college (university) American football. Universities typically have the largest stadium capacity (with a lot of bench seats vs individual seats). University alumni (and fans of the team who may have never taken a class at the school) are willing to travel great distances to see the school team play. Or alumni from one school may live near their school's opponent for the week.
One of the cool things about the money surrounding the NFL is you CAN have 1 team make more money than others. Usually winning helps, but cultivating a fan base that is willing to buy your merchandise and pay for attendance are the main wealth indicators. The salary cap does allow some fairness, though. You can spend all of your money on one or two key players, but then you cant pay your support pieces. They will probably move to another team, leaving you with trash players. However, the newer talent may work really hard to show that they deserve a ton of money. This means you CAN have cheaper players that play very well. It's a decent system.
I watched a documentary about the origins of American football. They said in the late 19th century the Ivy league colleges and specifically Harvard chose to play rugby rules football over the traditional football which was known at the time as soccer football. Apparently, soccer comes from the word 'association'. If I can find the link to the documentary, I will update this comment.
There's an advert every time there's going to be a pause in the game, be it an injury, a time-out, a touchdown, a field goal, like... whatever. In fact, if there hasn't been a reason for the game to stop in a while, they have been known to take a "television time out", so they can show adverts. Welcome To Football!!!
The Seattle Sounders FC (soccer) will put the visiting fans in their own sections if the stadium isn't full. Mostly for Vancouver or Portland games, because that's were there's literal trains-fulls of people coming up together, and having them in their own area, with their own bathrooms, and their ticket sales through their home teams is just easier.
People have been saying the jags are leaving jacksonville since 2010. Ticket sales since then have been middle of the road though. The place looks empty because most of the people in the stadium hangout in the “bud zone” to escape the sun.
Football Rugby and Soccer all grew out of similar games (as in every school had its own set of rules. American Football started as basically Rugby, (though the first college match was more proto-soccer), BUT they were a lot more willing to change rules and borrow from other codes. The biggest separation from other codes is the allowance of interference (blocking), as well as maintaining possession. Rugby League is pretty similar to where this split started (but it came later, and has no blocking). By 1880 American rules were quite distinct, forward passing came in round 1905 because things got too violent. Professional leagues that survived (NFL) date from 1920 or so (before that college started in 1870ish and then there were factory teams and sports clubs. The pros and the colleges have separate but similar rules sets, there is no "FIFA" or "FIBA" One reason rule changes happened was that there were a LOT more colleges and the founders (mostly "Ivy league", brought a bunch of "Land Grant" (mostly State) schools onto the committee early, which kept the rules changing, unlike Rugby.
There is a competition in the UK that requires people of a particular physical quality: The Royal Navy Field Gun Competition that I saw back when my unit traveled to London and participated in the Royal Tournament. I got to hang out with these gents and they were some massive fellows. They have to be to pick up a canon and heft it up over a wall. They could easily be pro American Football players. Kudos to the Royal Navy from a US Marine.
In almost all cases, A person entering the NFL has to declare for the NFL draft after college and the worst teams pick first and the best team picks last and theres 7 rounds of the draft so 7 cycles of worst team first, best team last. Then when drafted players are under contract for 4 years and become a “free agent” and can sign wherever they want. The catch is the league has a “salary cap” which is the most amount of dollars you can pay your players in total per year and each team cannot go over it. This year it was 203 million as the max for each team to spend. That’s basically how it works
Going from one country in Europe to another is like going from one state in the U.S. to another. Also, If a team petitions to move, the NFL has final say on whether it is allowed. If an NFL team petitioned to move to Europe, it probably wouldn't be allowed unless there was some stipulation that they would remain in the U.S. during the season. Which means they would have to find a facility to use as a home field (except maybe for the one or two games that are played overseas already).
College sports are more typically separated by fanbase in the stands than pro sports. Including student sections and seating for the band from each school.
They have ads after: The end of a quarter A time out is called (up to 6 times per half) A player is injured and cannot stand easily The end of play when the ball is punted A play needs to be reviewed by refs Points are scored A kickoff that is not at the start of a half Something weird happens that interrupts the game (like the power outage during Super Bowl XLVII)
Jags consistently rank in the top 25 in attendance and have never been last which is amazing considering how poorly ownership has treated the fans. Those shots were not during the game as you can see no players on the field. That guy’s an idiot who’s drinking the media koolaid. They’ve been saying the Jags should move since 95 and it’s never gonna happen. Shad has sunk hundreds of millions into the city of Jacksonville. And they have an ironclad lease until at least 2035. Go Jags. DUVAL!
@15:20 hard to say how many plays to get down the field. I would say a successful drive (possession) would be around 10ish plays. They can however be one play or be far more than 10. Just try and think of how many ways for you to go 100 yards with 4 chances to get ten yards at a time and add in the penalties that can push you forward and back.
Redzone is the best thing to happen to football since the yellow 1st down marker, I could never go back to watching 1 game at a time with 5min of commercials every 3min
Ill try to give you the basics... The object of the game is to score touchdowns and/or field goals. There are 11 players on offense and 11 players on defense at all times. The game starts with a kickoff from the 35 yard line to the other team. Most of the time the ball goes into the end zone and the receiving team gets the ball on their own 25 yard line to start their offense. The kicking team starts on defense. The receiving team can choose to try and return the kick, but if you get it on the 25, why risk the injuries? The offense has the ball and they get 4 plays to gain 10 yards. Gaining ten yards is called a "first down" as it's the first down of the four downs they get to gain 10 yards. After three plays, if they haven't picked up 10 yards, they may opt to use their 4th down to try to get the 10 yards which would give them 4 more plays to get another 10 yards OR they will most likely choose to punt the ball to the other team. Once the other team has possession of the ball they go on offense and the original team goes on defense. There are four 15 minute quarters to a professional or college game. At the end of 60 minutes of play whoever has the most points is the winner. In a professional game there are 7 officials charged with ensuring the rules are being followed. They are the Back Judge, Side Judge, Down Judge, Umpire, Referee, Field Judge and Line Judge. Each has different responsibilities. The Referee is the head official in charge of the game. The number of times the yellow line can be moved can be determined by penalties on plays. You could have a drive that takes 16 to 18 or even more plays to get all the way down the field or it could be achieved with one play such as a break away run or a long pass where the receiver gets behind the defense. If you started on your own one yard line and had 99 yard to go for a touchdown and you got exactly 10 yards each series of downs, after exactly 10 series of downs you would have a touchdown and the yellow line (otherwise known as "the line to gain") would have moved 9 times. Where the point of the football is is called the line of scrimmage. The length of the football from tip to tip as it sits on the ground is called the neutral zone. Neither team, other than the center's hand, maybe be in the neutral zone when the ball is snapped (or sent back from the center to the quarterback) to start the play. When the offensive line is set and ready to play, they may not move at all. Any perceptible flinch by any one of them is a foul. The defense is allowed to move at will, but may not enter the neutral zone until the ball is snapped.
The best way to understand the appeal of American football is to understand that it's a match that's won or lost based on the outcome of a series of "minigames:" one coach's strategy versus his opponent's, the offensive line versus the defensive line, a cornerback versus a receiver, and ten others, each decided one five-second play at a time. A team may win 95% of these minigames, but lose the bigger match because of the failure in the remaining 5%. And then, when you add in a particular team's history against their opponent or the ramifications of a win or a loss on that specific day, the drama of the sport is exponentially increased "on any given Sunday." It takes time and experience with the league to understand all of the subtext, but when you do, the NFL is supremely compelling. It's like a book that starts a bit slow--building it's world. In the beginning, you might wonder why you even started, but by the climax, you'll be completely invested.
the tournament you are referring to is the draft. each team gets a certain number of draft picks depending upon where they finish in the rankings at the end of the season. at the start of spring training, each team will have around 80 - 100 personnel vying for a spot on the team and at the start of the season, they can have no more than 50 players (this includes the starters, backups, and practice squad). Unlike in Premier League Football/Soccer, each team is capped at how much they can pay for the entire team (for example, the Cleveland Browns salary cap might be $350 million. so the entire teams salary cant exceed $350 million)
the yellow flag signifies that a referee, or judge has seen a rules violation and is using the flag to mark the spot where the infraction occurred.
And after he throws the flag if he sees another violation he literally throws his hat at it.
@@mikehermen3036 on the really rare occasion if there's a 3rd infraction seen and he's already thrown the flag, and his hat he must use his shirt to mark the third infraction.
@@resurrectedgaming7144 Also don't forget if the penalty is against your team it's a bad call, and the refs are really fucking your team with that bullshit.
@@resurrectedgaming7144 then other refs would throw a flag
It doesn't mark the spot where it happened, they just throw it when there is a penalty, the blue bean bag shows a change of possession.
The coach for each team can throw a red challenge flag 2 times per game (3 if they win both challenges)
A wise American football coach said "Football is like playing chess, slowly, stragegically, and with lots of media interruptions, with Sumo wrestlers and Olympic sprinters". The sport has caught on in Europe because frankly we need all body types and European futbol has pretty much one body type it requires. Fat, massive British blokes and German giants finally find a place. Skinny but fast kids who can outrun all their friends now have a role. Our coaches carry charts around with mathematically calculated probabilities of success for a certain plays with certain amounts of time, yards, and staff remaining, those often computed by genius professors at their university or by paid consultants. 🏈🏈🏈🏈
Ehhhhhh not exactly. Pro linemen work very hard to maintain a specific weight, which is mostly muscle. They can't just be heavy, they need to be strong and quick. They can't be as fast as ball carriers and secondary defenders, but they need to be able to move around to be effective. It's shocking how fast someone that's 6'6" and 280 pounds can be.
@@TigerNightmare Hell yeah! The kid from Georgia Jordan Davis is like 6'5" 340lbs and ran a 4.78sec 40 yard dash🤯🤯🤯 That is absolute BANANAS!!
As a European and a hard core NFL fan ( GO BIRDS!) i like the sumo wrestling analogy. An american football game is like 100 sumo wrestling bouts compacted into 3h. Every single down is a clash of 22 of the fittest people on the planet, specialized in what they do going at it. It takes a while (read years) to be able to truly appreciate the amount of individual bouts, feats and amazing physical achievemtn one single play in NFL takes.
@@crooster1 you gonna watch the draft tomorrow fellow birds fan
@@kyemerchant5455 Ofcourse!🦅🦅🦅
Oh and FUCK the cowboys! :D
Totally onboard with watching brits getting hooked on the NFL
One thing you kinda have to do when taking into consideration franchises, college football, etc is think about the United States as Europe instead of the UK. 32 teams in the entire continent of Europe. Say you have a team in Warsaw that isn’t making much money, so you just move the team to Munich to bring more fans to games.
Same for the appeal of college football. I live in a city of about 200,000 people with about a million in the surrounding area. We don’t have an NFL team within 3 hours of the city, so we all watch the major college team in the city. Plus it’s fun to follow the players from high school to college to the pros if they’re lucky enough to make it
As far as fan segregation, most of the time it’s not necessary. Sometimes it’s done as tradition. For example, in college football, the annual game between Oklahoma and Texas is played at a neutral venue halfway between the two schools. The tickets are sold with half going to the fans of each school, with a dividing line along the 50 yard line. You can see the line in the stadium by the colors the fans are wearing. It’s pretty cool to see in person.
I brew beer right across the street from The Cotton Bowl. Red River Saturday is nuts.
Clearly you never tried to wear a cowboys jersey in the 700 section of veterans stadium during an eagles/cowboys game
I thought it was Nebraska? I just made a comment about this. I love it but only in collegiate does it happen.
I think in the pros, that it's mostly not achievable now because of the secondary ticket market. The ticket box no longer gets to regulate it. Colleges cans till do it by restricting ticket and entry to student ID's.
"Fan segregation is not necessary...."
*LAUGHS IN RAIDERS v 49ERS*
20:20 Football is essentially a lifetime thing. But the best of the best generally the road begins in High School. The better you do there the more high-end colleges want you and the better you do in college the more the NFL will want you when it's time to enter that NFL Draft.
Yeah, there are something like 24,000 high schools in the US with a significant amount, if not an outright majority, playing football. There are almost 900 college football teams in 5 different divisions, with 130 Division I-A (Football Bowl Subdivision or FBS) schools. All funneling down into the 32 NFL teams.
Imagine if any Brit took this guy's advice and rooted for the Jags last year with Urban Meyer as their coach!! I cannot think of an easier way for someone to never give football a chance again!
he had the audacity to say to not root for the browns, jets, or lions and then recommended the jags
@@jjjd12346 Also, there are more "BROWNS BACKERS" clubs worldwide than any other team.
@@jjjd12346 well, the jets and lions are still garbage just like the jags. Maybe more trash actually.
Jags were one bad call from the Superbowl in 17.
@@McClintonforThree And outside of that one year what have they done in the past decade and a half? Not necessarily saying the Jags have no shot at a future, just that there are quite a few teams with a brighter one. It'll be interesting to see how Lawrence does with a much much much much more competent coaching staff.
Segregated fans? How are you supposed to talk sheet to the other guy or pour a beer on his head?! Its madness!! 😂✌🇺🇸🇬🇧
American football (AF) evolved from soccer and rugby. The first AF game was played in 1869 between two college teams, Rutgers and Princeton, using rules based on the rules of soccer at the time. A set of rule changes drawn up from 1880 onward by Walter Camp, the "Father of American Football", established the snap, the line of scrimmage, eleven-player teams, and the concept of downs. Later rule changes legalized the forward pass, created the neutral zone and specified the size and shape of the football.
Our version of Rugby football was very brutal, to the point that fatalities were a regular occurance. Imagine, for instance, that you got the ball out of the scrum, and your teammates basicaly all grabbed you and tried to drag you through the defense toward the goalline.
The President of the United States said, "fix this or we'll ban it," and the rules changes they made more or less created the nacent version of what became modern American football.
Someone once said: "Football is not a "Contact" sport. Football, is a "Collision" sport."
That is very true, heavy contact happens between the majority of the players on the field, every play.
Because of the "start - stop" nature of the play, there is an emphasis on quickness and power.
much like sprinters vs distance runners.
Halftime shows are mostly reserved for college games when the respective marching bands come out and do their halftime show. In regards to the NFL, you really won't see halftime SHOWS unless it's for a bigger game like the Super Bowl, Thanksgiving games or a game being played overseas. Otherwise halftime is generally just random events or competitions the home team puts on (for example: a random person from the crowd tries to kick a 40 yard field goal for X amount of dollars or a car or whatever).
Looking forward to seeing you get more into the sport. There are a lot of rules/oddities/things needing explanation but it usually makes for a good time to drink some beer like any sport and if you start understanding parts of it, it only gets better! You will certainly have to react to some college games and traditions as, in my opinion, college football has a far more rabid following where college stadiums usually dwarf the size of professional stadiums. The professional stadiums are more consistent in their seating capacity being anywhere from the smallest of 61,500 (Soldier Field - Chicago Bears) to the largest of 82,500 (MetLife Stadium - NY Giants & NY Jets). For college you will find a much larger range of capacities. For the FBS division the smallest stadium is 10,000 (Clarence T. C. Ching Athletics Complex - University of Hawai'i Warriors) and the largest 107,601 (Michigan Stadium - University of Michigan Wolverines). The NFL attendance record stands at 112,376 played in Mexico City and the college record being 156,990 played in Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee.
Edit: Regarding home and away sections, you won't really see that at all at the professional level but some college teams do have reserved sections of the stadium where tickets are mostly allocated for away fans (usually areas of the stadium like upper decks that won't be seen during the majority of the televised plays). That being said away fans still can get tickets to any part of the stadium and sit among home team fans. Fights do happen but are generally pretty rare and get broken up quickly.
Yes. In cases that aren't those, you will see a "Halftime Report", which is a recap of what's going on in every other game.
Tailgate party, some people don't even go into the stadium, they just hang out in the parking lot, cook food and watch the game on a big screen from the back of their truck or SUV. Just go to an NFL game and hang out outside, don't even need to buy a ticket.
Rugby: run parallel with each other and do a lot of form tackles.
Football: 250 lbs+ men running at each other full speed, basically spearing the torso and lower body with occasional form tackles.
Edit: if you're looking for some NFL related stuff for the channel, you could try.
1: NFL Highlights of games (good luck with copyright though)
2: UrinatingTree: "This week in Sportsball" (satirical, but good to get the overview of games)
3: Chisled Adonis "Game Highlight Commentary" (also satirical and a lot of inside jokes, but good overview of games)
Very rarely, American football will revert to its rugby origins, when a losing team in the final seconds might try to throw/pitch a series of "laterals" (i.e. throwing the ball backward; if thrown forward it would be an illegal pass and the play would be effectively over) among teammates as they run down the field trying to avoid being tackled. Either the player carrying the ball gets a touchdown or the game is over with the team losing.
Notoriously the University of California Golden Bears beat the Stanford University Cardinal in the last four seconds of their game back in 1982 with this kind of unscripted rugby-type play.
@@baraxor I know, but in the grand scheme of things, it happens so rarely that I thought it wasn't worth mentioning.
Hello from Kansas City! (Chiefs) I simply can't express how insane the entire city becomes from September to January. The statues are draped in red jerseys; the skyscrapers and bridges glow red, even the fountains run red - like the blood of our enemies!!!!
No, but for real. They really do all that stuff and so much more. Football is the great unifier lol
Yes, college football is effectively the training ground for professional football. In fact, we have even rewritten are rules to allow college players to be paid and get endorsements prior to reaching the NFL. Basically, the biggest thing to remember is the best players run an injury risk so really great college players are balancing a risk/reward strategy where they try to stay healthy enough to make it to the pros while also playing great in enough games to show why they deserve to be playing in the pros as well.
We have a salary cap, meaning teams can only spend up to a certain amount. It really, honestly doesn't come directly from team owners pocket.
All NFL owners have an agreement with the league to split revenue for games (not other promotions) equally among the teams. The yearly cut is typically higher than the salary cap. There is an owner, Dan Snyder of the Washington Commanders who was caught skimming off the top and is under (what may turn or may have already turned legal) investigation now. The salary cap is set in stone and in order to make sure they can sign all the needed players, good teams don't go overboard. I'm a Steelers fan and for example, a probowl level (all star) running back, top 3 in the league held out for a year over not getting the contract he wanted. The Steelers recognize no one player is bigger than the team so you cant let that sink the ship. Giving too much to one player means not only are you skimping on other quality players, it breeds a bad locker room when other players are doing as much or more being paid a fraction. Unfortunately, the booming mid 90s economy saw ticket prices go up, players getting paid exorbitant amounts of money. In se cases, well paid vet players have even been willing to restructure contracts taking pay cuts sometimes in order to get a specific player spot filled with a quality person. You see this when it's a playoff caliber team that is weak in a specific area, maybe need one piece to be a championship contender.
College football is absolutely massive, the 3rd biggest stadium in the world and the biggest stadium outside of Asia is a college football stadium, Michigan Stadium which holds 106,000 people. College stadiums are huge and multiple of them hold over 100,000 people and people are just as passionate for college football if not more passionate then people are for the NFL. I would rather see my college football team do well and win the league than see my NFL team win the league.
Yup I live about 20 minutes away from the big house.
I believe the 10 biggest stadiums in the US are all college stadiums as well. College culture isn't that big where I live, we have the Bay Area teams to cheer for after all, and there really aren't any that play in the big college divisions near me. I would need to live closer to LA and that's a nightmare scenario for me lol
I always thought UCLA held the most but I guess not. It's an old trashy stadium anyways
@@ArtifisticA The old ass rose bowl stadium? Nah it only holds around 90,000 the big house holds around 107,000
@@kevinprzy4539 Nah more like 101,000
Pregame tailgating; air force flyovers, halftime shows. NFL stadiums (SoFi Stadium in LA, AT&T in Dallas, Mercedes Atlanta, Allegiant in Vegas) are gorgeous & expensive. College stadiums are huge (about 8 of 'em seat over 100K); each school's traditions are unique (e.g., chuck wagons on the field after a score).
There is a short break between the first and second quarter. And the third and fourth quarter. A couple of commercials, and brief update on the game so far. Half time, between 2nd and 3rd quarter is actually quit long. Time to go to the washroom, make a sandwich, and stock the cooler next to your chair.
To answer your question about how many “goes” it takes to get down the field, basically as long as you keep getting across that yellow line you get a fresh set of attempts. It is limited only when you get to within 10 yards of the endzone (where you score). To achieve a first down (fresh set of attempts) you must always gain 10 yards, of course being within 10 yards of the endzone means it is no longer possible to achieve a first down and you must score within your next 4 attempts. I hope that wasn’t confusing and answers your question.
And when you think you have seen it all, you receive a punt on about the 4-inch line. Your QB takes the snap from the center, and the QB gives the football to your RB inside the opponent's endzone. It is a basic draw play. And Tony Dorsett runs 102 yards down the field for a touchdown. That's a one-down play.
In theory, without penalties, if you drove 99 yards, taking all 4 downs each series and only gaining exactly the line-to-make, the maximum would 40 plays ("goes"). As far as I know, no one has ever had anywhere near that. More than 10 plays is considered a sustained drive, the longest drives can approach 20 plays.
I love it when people from Europe react to American Football. It’s always great to watch😂 also no the fans aren’t segregated that’s the beauty. The yellow flag is a penalty flag like the cards they use in soccer. You were almost right on the draft. The worst teams in the league get the first few picks of the next draft. People can make it to the nfl without going to college but you have to wait 3 years out of high school to do so and it’s extremely difficult. Teams moving cities is never a easy thing at all. Cleveland browns in the 90s, the Baltimore colts, the Raiders moving from Oakland, the Rams leaving St. Louis. It’s never easy for the fans. Finally finished the video and it was a great video and honestly I’d suggest getting into the NFL it’s awesome to watch💯
Some numbers for you, from a former player, former coach of American Style Football. Keep in mind, the primary difference between American Football and Rugby or Soccer, in American Football you run AT each other and not with each other. Rugby is a contact sport, football is a collision sport.
According to Popular Mechanics, The average sack of the Quarterback can produce a bone rattling 1600 lbs of force. According to IBA, the average NFL player gets an average 50 hits to the head, each with a force of 40 times the force of gravity. They say that being hit by a linebacker is equal to being hit by a car at 36 mph..
If you get hit by a car going 36 mph you're going to be either dead or crippled for life. A linebacker is 1/10th the mass traveling at half the speed.
@@jamesclapp6832 wrong. Read up studies before being THAT guy
@@titaneyes1 I've been hit by plenty of linebackers. The worst I suffered was a few contusions and a concussion. I've been hit in an intersection by an SUV going 20 mph. Broken bones. It's simple physics.
I think the main reason it was called football was because when it was first played there was no forward pass. You only ran the ball. So the only way the ball was moved was with your feet. This changed when there were many deaths related to collisions and they wanted to make the sport safer with passing.
There are commercials every change of possession, timeout, injury timeout, and between quarters. On average, about 100+ per game.
The video you reacted to seemed more like an advert for ESPN and Fantasy Football than actually informative. I looked at a few other NFL rules videos and I think "The Rules of American Football - EXPLAINED! (NFL)" is both informative, and short enough to grab everyone's attention if you want to try that. As this video said, there are just tons and tons of rules in football, but this video gave the basics without trying to swamp you with a bunch of the rules. You honestly pick up the most used rules as you watch more games.
I am 50 years old, and I still remember the words my first football coach told me when I was 8 years old.
"We give you pads NOT to stop you from being hurt. We give you pads to REDUCE the amount of pain you will fell. Get used to them."
Honestly I think you've got one of the best reaction channels on UA-cam because you actually have meaningful commentary on each of your videos. I'm a history buff, so your history reaction videos and commentary are always great but I enjoy the NFL stuff just as much
The number of "Go's'" (officially called plays or downs) it takes to get the to end zone can vary greatly. Sometimes a team is only about to gain a small amount of yards on each play, so they take 12 or 13 plays to get to the end zone. Sometimes a team will make a huge gain and get to the end zone in just one play.
Penalties and sacks (tackling the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage "for a loss") means you have to regain the lost yardage (major penalties are 15 yards) so technically you can gain, and then lose, and gain and lose, and gain and lose several times just to get to mid-field. As long as you gain that ultimate 10 yards from where you started within 4 downs, the count is reset. General rule of thumb, you try three times to get a first down and if you don't make it kick on 4th down. That puts the other team deep into their own end of the field OR you can try a field goal (worth 3 points). There are dozens upon dozens of decisions that are made ON EVERY PLAY. Which players are going onto the field, your passing teammates or your running teammates? Which players does the defense have on the field. Are the defensive backs missing coverage, eg: not guarding one of your better receivers when they are in one of a dozen or more variations of formations. Does the defense pull out a good run defender and substitute a better pass defender because you are now in a 3rd down and a 50 foot tape measure distance to go, something usually solved with a pass.
Technically soccer was extremely popular in the US in the 1910s-20s when the ASL (American Soccer Leauge) was around BUT due to the Great Depression, the ASL folded. Soccer would then be massively overshadowed by the NFL, MLB, NBA ect.
Had the Great Depression not happened soccer probably would have been one of the most popular sports in the US.
That and, in the interim, soccer was branded "a communist sport." And you know how us Yanks felt about Communists in the 20th century.
And politics between the league and the USFA and FIFA because of cup matches ending with FIFA declaring them an outlaw league and the USFA creating a competitor.
We do have MLS now.
Soccer then was more associated with immigrants than communism. Immigrants ,along with non-whites were treated badly.
Yeah the NFL and basically every American sports games do not separate fans and fights rarely happen. It’s more of an event you can take a young child to and you wouldn’t expect people to be cursing loudly or being belligerent. For the most part they are pretty family friendly events.
lol, if you want your kids to learn many new words and see loads of drunks.
High school to college to NFL. With each step up, a lot of players drop out or are eliminated by competition so that you have an elite corps left over to be available for the draft. There are wildcards and walk-ons - players not chosen in the draft, or who try out for a certain position if the team is willing to do that - but the vast majority (more than 99% I guess) go thru high school to college to NFL. And, of course, before high school, lots of these players have been playing in flag football (no contact) or little league football since they were 5 years old. So, yes, college is a training ground, but it is also the final filter the players go thru to test their ability to play in the NFL.
The Jags are my favorite underdog team. I root for em every year and hope one day they get to compete for the Lombardi trophy. I would love to see the NFL expand into Europe and it'd be awesome if they just did another expansion. 1995 the Jaguars and the Panthers were added as teams to the NFL and the Texans are the latest team who joined in 2001. So it isn't unprecedented to add new teams to the league
Though, with the league being 32 teams, with 8 divisions of 4 teams each, it's hard for me to see another expansion, unless they let 4 teams in at once, or majorly realign the conferences.
What you have to understand is that our football grew almost concurrently with your football (both association and rugby), and that all of them owe their origin to mob football. All versions of the game basically took mob football and then added rules to condense the game to something that could be played in a single field (instead of over a whole town) and in a few hours (instead of one or multiple days). So no, our football isn't just a different version of rugby just like rugby didn't actually start when someone picked up the ball and ran with it during a soccer match. The rules for the early history of the games were not really set in a rule book but decided by the participants. You can kind of think of it like drinking games where there are general rules, but you might also show up to a place that has a variation. If you like it, then you keep it and it spreads. If you don't like it, it doesn't spread. Eventually enough things change to make it a distinctive game. We can see this in the earliest history of football here when the colleges report going to other colleges to play and playing with different rules, which they then might adopt. The earliest rules were similar to the rules of soccer at the time, but also allowed blocking. This resulted in human wedges trampling each other as the main tactic, which led to a ton of deaths. So the university presidents outlawed the game. But time heals all wounds, so a few years later the sport was brought back. One of the first games was played against a Canadian college which was playing with rules much closer to rugby. The American team decided they liked those rules more, so they started using those instead of the soccer rules. The real main point of departure from European football versions came as the solution to more deaths occurring during play. Instead of trampling the ball carrier to get the ball back, the system of downs was created to give a way for the defense to get the ball while also allowing the ball carrier to not get trampled. They also decided that in order to stop the mass formations from just running into each other, they would allow teams to throw the ball forward and run with it if they caught it. This forced the defense to spread out over the field instead of putting everyone near the ball. And that was basically it. That was the point of deviation. The problem with all mob football games was that they were too violent, so each version of the game came up with their own way of solving it. Soccer said you can't handle the ball which makes dispossessing easier. Rugby disallowed blocking which meant only the ball carrier would get hit, which also spread out the field by making the other players find someway to be useful which was to spread out to receive the pass, which then forced defenses to spread out to cover them, which meant fewer hits on the ball carrier. 3 sports grew out of 3 unique solutions to the problem of one sport.
Oh, and the original mob football was called "football" not because they kicked a ball with their feet, but because it was a ball game played on feet. Some of the earliest rules of football discovered specifically outlaw kicking the ball.
The basics is this (in a not so long winded way like the guy in the video): to start the game a place kicker will kick the ball to the other team as far as he can. The team that gets that ball starts their possession as 1st and 10. Meaning 1st play and they need 10 yards to get another 1st down. If on 1st and 10 they run a play and get 6 yards before they’re taken down. Now, they’re on 2nd and 4. So their 2nd attempt they need 4 yards to get back to 1st and 10. If they can’t get 10 yards before 4 attempts, they have to kick the ball either to the other team and lose possession, or if they’re close enough they can kick a field goal through those big yellow poles, worth 3 points. If they keep getting their 10 yards and get all the way to their end zone, they get 6 points.
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Basically, we do have big blocks between quarters. However we also have commercials after literally. Every. Single. Play.
This video will be great 👍 The guy explains the NFL really well for a premier league English football fan
I disagree. He explained almost nothing about the game. It was a waste of time. There many others that are far better than this one.
7:15 in California where the game was, Weed is legal and in a lot of states now weed is legal for recreational use and in almost all states it is legal for medical use and can be prescribed for certain pains and illnesses.
I happen to live in Southern California and we have multiple teams. Los Angeles currently has two NFL teams and yes fans can be split and fan fights are just part of the entertainment. Many people will travel to see their teams play in different states. I have a few friends that are trying to make it to most if not all of the stadiums. That's not just with the NFL as fans will travel to see baseball, basketball, etc... we are a big country, we have a lot of sports and we have many places to go see it.
The season schedule consists of weekly matchups for every team... 3 preseason matchups in August which mean nothing and allow teams to try out rookies and new additions... and 17 regular season matchups over 18 weeks September - January come rain, snow, sleet, sun, arctic freeze... only being canceled for natural disaster and lightning... the most common weekly schedule is one match Thursday, one match the following Monday and all the rest played from morning to night on Sundays... After the regular season, the top seeds from each division (usually with a record of 10-7 to possibly 17-0) and a few wild card teams compete in a single elimination playoff tournament with weekly games throughout January... culminating in the penultimate NFC and AFC conference championships and 2 weeks later into February the Super Bowl between the winners of those two aforementioned games to determine NFL CHAMPION!
As an NFL fan, I believe the Jaguars would be a perfect team for London. They haven't had much success in their nearly 30 year team history, and their south coastal region already has quite a few teams... Carolina Panthers (385 miles north), Atlanta Falcons (348 miles NW), Tampa Bay Buccaneers (201 miles SW), & Miami Dolphins (331 miles south)... and for today's trivia, the farthest team from them being the Seattle Seahawks (3,015 miles NW).
Fun video!!! I need to find a cricket for American’s video like this. I watch a lot of BBC murder mysteries like Midsomer Murders, Father Brown, etc. and it comes up often enough I need to learn what’s happening. Lol
Hope you're doing well and test negative soon.
As an American who watches cricket, I can assure you that you can learn to understand our football. 😁
Attending an NFL game is a very special experience, especially if the home team is doing well. Thousands of people show up at the stadium hours early so they can 'tailgate,' which is enormous, raucous pre-game party in the parking lot. The grill hot dogs and burgers, drink beer, play games, and get charged up with their team's other fans in the lot. In Kansas City, where I live, local restaurants will cater big tailgating parties, especially with barbecue (which Kansas City is famous for).
As the kickoff (start of the game) approaches, the enthusiastic mob make their way into the stadium, drink more beer, and hype each other up even more. I don't have a word except 'turgid' to describe the atmosphere, which is inadequate to convey the contagious enthusiasm. They'' sing, chant, be entertained by the mascot, until they're in a near-frenzied state for the kickoff.
After that, it gets LOUD. 70000 or 80000 people put up a continuous roar, especially when the opposing team has the ball. A home crowd can often make so much noise that the opposing team is unable to communicate on the field, which causes sloppy plays and penalties that help the home team. This goes on for three hours.
If the home team wins, the jovial crowd return to the parking lot and try to remember where their vehicle was parked. Then they pile out onto the highways in a drunken stampede and become a city-wide traffic snarl for two hours after.
It's an experience everybody should have at least once, but tickets and parking have become so expensive that only people of means can afford to attend the game; some people just pay to park and watch the game on electronics brought from home.
What we almost never have is brawls between supporters of the opposing team, and mostly they just engage in generally good-natured ribbing. I think the reason that soccer fans riot and NFL fans don't is that - let's face it - a soccer game can go a long time without anything really spectacular taking place. So soccer fans vent their built-up fervor and hostility in the stands. Whereas American Football has so much violence on the field - usually sanctioned - that the fans get their rage released cathartically by just watching the play.
60 years ago, pro American sports would have one or two teams dominate an era. I do think the parity makes sports more enjoyable for a larger segment of the population. Consider the size of the US, and how uninteresting a sport could become if the dominant team was located 2500 miles away and only came to your area to play 2 or 3 times in a decade.
Florida has 3 NFL teams, the Jags won't be missed. They're the newest of the 3.
Personally it's one of the reasons I love football. My 49ers make it interesting every year lol. We need a QB
@@bwestacado9643 yall have Trey Lance
@@jd3thegreat Who knows if he'll turn out to be great or not. It's always a crapshoot when it comes to the draft. We had Alex Smith, a true genius in every sense of the word and earned a 7 year degree in less than 4 years, but he was a bust for the 49ers. We could have had Aaron Rodgers, but the team itself was in such disarray we likely would have ruined him too. You gotta take into account the offensive coordinator, the intelligence of the player and their ability to quickly grasp and adapt to the playbook and whether or not they can be a field general. An amazing college player could be a bottom of the barrel professional. I hope he'll be an amazing, super bowl champion caliber QB, but I'll never assume a prospect is anything more until they prove otherwise
Without getting into sources I think your understanding of the history of football is generally correct. American colleges played forms of rugby but with varying rules and they would meet and agree on the rules prior to the match which led to weird games of people not knowing the rules. And then in the 20s they just kinda decided on the more stop and go football we know today
The players being miked up isn’t broadcast during the games, it’s usually used for later edits and entertainment shorts to promote the team and the league, and they are very entertaining. Usually each game, they select a couple of players to mike up.
In addition, the quarterback helmet and the middle linebacker helmet are always miked and has a built in headset for the purpose of communicating play calls with the coaches on the sideline, and it’s their responsibility to communicate the plays to the rest of the team, or to call an audible and change the play or coverage.
It's funny that he went so hard on Detroit the year before their best season in 40 years
To me, you sound like a Baltimore fan. Years ago, Baltimore’s team up and moved, almost overnight, with no warning. Baltimore fans were (rightly) outraged at their new owner, and his decision to take the team to Indianapolis, where they started a reign as the most dominant force in the AFC South (one of four groups of four teams making up half of the divisions of the 32 team NFL), rivaling Tom Brady’s Patriots (cheaters) in the AFC (half the teams in the NFL) for Superbowl appearances and almost wins. The new Indianapolis Colts were great, on the back of their QB, Peyton Manning, and his exceptional ball placement and comeback skills, but enough about my favorite team (they moved here so we had a local team, don’t hate me for switching out of my cheese hat to root local, blame the Baltimore Colts’ owner for stealing a team away).
So Baltimore fans were left with a new team, to fit their stadium, and hope. That’s all they had, besides a growing hatred for team moves, and a resentment of the stellar Colts squad. Tom and his cheaters were still more hated by the 15 other teams in the AFC, for good reason. They were very hard to beat, they had a quarterback every bit as good as Peyton, and on top of that, they still felt the need to cheat to win, paying fines for getting caught multiple times, while their owner has dinner with the guy in charge of the whole league. Half a million here or there didn’t matter, as long is they got their wins. In fact, from 1996 to 2018, three teams won the AFC Championship (and because of that earned a spot at the Super Bowl), the Baltimore Ravens winning twice, but the remaining years were split between the Indianapolis Colts, the New England Patriots, the Denver Broncos, and the Pittsburgh Steelers. 10 of those went to the Patriots, Denver got 4, the Steelers got 3 of those (4 if you start a year before where I started, I picked that year before knowing exactly what point I was making), and the Colts only made it there twice, losing to the Patriots before that point in the postseason most years. We beat them on the way once, and won the next game (Super Bowl) as well. From 2002, when the AFC South was formed, to 2014, one of my last years watching the NFL, the Colts didn’t win the division only four times. Since then, they haven’t won the AFC South Championship, but 8 out of 12 wasn’t bad, and they were the only team from this division to win a Super Bowl (it would’ve been three if it hadn’t been for Tom’s nearly unpunished cheating).
But that’s the kind of turmoil and rifts caused by a team moving silently and sneakily at will, and the biggest opposition to moves being allowed, as far as I’ve heard from fans, is the fans from Baltimore. They got robbed as hard as the Colts have been robbed by the Patriots. That Manning lineup could’ve existed as the new Baltimore Colts, and that dynasty of dominance would have belonged to the city that gave birth to the Colts franchise. The Ravens were no slouches either, as their two AFC Championships were both followed by the big win (in that arbitrary set of years). Some still claim that the Ravens were better anyway, but I almost guarantee that those individuals didn’t watch Colts games in their entirety, and they’re basing that opinion as observers from highlights and statistics, and super bowl victories.
In short, your philosophies on sports, moving teams, and liking to root for a team that can win (I imagine) seems to be a great fit for a Baltimore fan. After all, they were original Colonians. And anything is better than rooting for proven, busted cheaters, like the New England Patriots. Come at me, Pats fans, you can’t refute any of this history of the AFC (the more offensively focused half of the NFL).
All that for 3 likes #coltsnation
@@huellbabineaux7398 Hey, I don’t do it for the likes, I do it for the love of the game.
9:52 the yellow flag is thrown by referees and symbolizes a penalty on one team
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I am so sorry to hear that you have Covid-19. I hope you get better really quickly. I really enjoyed that video and found it interesting and I don’t even watch Football that often. A brand new professional football league called the U.S.F.L. started this week. They will play during the NFL’s off season, so they won’t have to compete directly with them. This league was tried in the 1980’s and it failed after only three years because Football is difficult to play in warm weather, so it will be interesting to see how it does this time around.
Yikes, I would hate to be padded up and running for 3 hours straight in the dead of summer. I live in the California Valley and it's unbearable without cover
In regards to college sports, yes. They are essentially a training league for pro sports. Most notably American football and basketball. But only a small percentage of the players go pro because there are just so many college teams. NFL players are required play college ball before draft eligibility. But some players in basketball went pro straight out of high school. LeBron James and Kobe Bryant are probably the most famous ones who went pro immediately after school.
There are the rare players in the NFL that did not play in college, but only 1 or so a year out of all 32 teams.
The stadium regulates itself. There’s an agreed measure of civility. Generally you can wear an opposing team’s jersey in a sea of home fans. Unless you’re in Philadelphia
Or an obnoxious Vikings fan in Chicago. If Bears and Packers fans can get along while tailgating, why do Vikings fans have to cause problems when they come to Chicago?
@@curtisfranzen986 Because Bears fans feel flattered that Packers fans still consider them to be a worthy opponent. But everybody knows the Vikings just suck.
@@BennysThoughts Plus, I think both fan bases have the mentality that you bring twice as much food as you need, and 3 times the beer. Nothing says "we're all cool" than swopping brats and ribs while sharing cold beer.
@@curtisfranzen986 What's really funny is when someone shows up in Lions gear and, rather than heaping a whole huge pile of shit on them, all three fan bases basically just treat them like their buddy's retarded half-brother and just kind of politely smile and nod.
@@BennysThoughts I wouldn't go that far, because I'm delusional about talent when it comes to the Bears. But Ya'all up in GB must get traveling Vikings fans as well? What is your take on some of them?
17:30 Salary Caps have a lot to do with keeping it from being a pay to win game. It seems to me that a Super Bowl winning team is likely to be split up because every player on that team now wants more money on their next contract, and the salary cap for the team won't let them pay that extra amount to their entire lineup, so some players may look elsewhere for that higher pay. The rotation you mentioned is the NFL Draft and Draft Picks, but I don't know much about that except it's how Rookie (first year) players get into the league. EDIT: The video he was watching covered part of this. I just commented too soon.
I recommend doing a reaction video to NFL “mic’d up” vids on UA-cam. It really gives you a look into players and their personalities and the spirit of the game. A lot of trash talk, friendly banter, joking, laughing and just fun stuff.
In America, you don’t have to go to college in order to join the NFL…but it is almost impossible to get into the NFL without going to college. High schools take middle school American football seriously. Colleges take high school American football seriously. The NFL takes college football seriously. That’s how it works. High schools get players from middle schools, colleges get players from high schools, The NFL gets players from college.
Sundays during Football season is holy time. Its a whole day event if you go, You have tail gating prior to the game, the game and then getting home to watch the night game with the boys. Big to do for many, all fall well past the new year.
The only NFL game I ever went to was a preseason game between the 49ers and the Raiders. There was 11 fights in the stands, a stabbing in the bathroom and a shooting after the game. Good times
If it was the Raiders its likely there were 3 player DUIs and one felony battery after the game as well.
@@mooseot lmao! They lost so definitely
Going to a football game takes up the whole day, so when most people attend they lean into it and show up early and set up bbq grills in the parking lot to "Tailgate" before the game,we also always bring tons of booze. For a 1pm start my friends and I get there by 10 to light the grill and start drinking. Burgers, dogs potato salad and macaroni salad usually, but we have done boneless pork loin, pork ribs, NY strip steaks, prime rib, lobster tails, shrimp. One time we picked up a 200 count bag of cherry stone clams and just stood there almost too drunk to remain upright with needle nose pliers in one hand and a beer in the other waiting for the clams on the grill to open up.
Everyone tries to out do each other with the quality of food they manage to cook in a parking lot. One guy who attends games at Giant Stadium always parks in parking section 123 and brings a 280 gallon heating oil tank that has been converted into a pig roaster. It is built into a trailer he hauls behind his pickup truck. He is there by 3 am to start cooking but his bus full of friends from the bar shows up around 10 am like my friends and I. They own an old school bus but it's painted Giants blue and red instead of yellow and black.
22:50 As a browns fan I can confirm that in the mid 90s the owner of the Browns moved the team to Baltimore and to make things worse a few years after the team moved they won a Super bowl. We eventually got our team back in 1999
They actually mic players up in hockey these days, as well. It results in some interesting exchanges at times.
There can actually be teams that are dominant for years on end, but because of the salary cap, the trick is for management to find players interested in the glory of winning and willing to take a bit less pay to be on a team with more star players than any other team.
30:30-31:00 is the best part of the video. lol
Yes we have 4 quarters and adverts are played in the middle of quarters. In fact. Adverts are played at every time out, every turn over, 2 minute drill, after every kick off, before every kick off, during a challenge of a play, during a review of a play. Adverts are everywhere in American football. Or football2. That is why Americans love to BBQ or cook during football games, because you can easily walk away from the tv every time your team doesn’t have the ball or an advert is on tv. As soon as you hear the commentating again, you can go back to watch.
NFL regular season doesn't start until September.
Super Bowls have huge halftime shows, other NFL games vary quite a bit. Some will even have children's leagues play exhibition games for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Or pay tribute to a person or group. Or have a sponsored fan contest based on throwing or kicking.
College Football, which is just as popular (and more in some areas) will often have marching band performances during halftime.
Personally I like having a salary cap in American football. The NBA and baseball both don’t have hard salary caps and are much more boring as a result. It makes club management more important bc they have to get creative.
BTW, just over 1 million teenage boys play High School football annually. About 55 will receive a “5-star” rating. That signifies an elite talent. A can’t miss prospect. That player will receive offers to play College Football anywhere they want. Several hundred get 4 star, and then you get into lesser rankings. From the 1 million boys that play High School football about 30k go on to play Division 1 College Football. División 1 football is where nearly every NFL player comes from. After that, 255 players are drafted by the NFL to “try out”. Of those about 85% will either never make a team, be a lower tier or sub par player and only last a few seasons at best.
All of our sports have the aspect of the worst team drafting the best player in the first round. For example in the NFL, the #32 team gets the first pick of the first round, #31 gets the second pick and so on until the #1 team gets the 32nd pick of the first round, but then it reverses for the second round. Reverses again for the third round, and so on for all six rounds.
But the draft typically only picks up 6 players for each team. Not usually enough to turn a team around by itself. So teams actually trade draft pickls for players that are already established. And you'll end up with one team getting seveal pick iun a round for giving up a start player. Players who don't get drafted can try to make the pro teams during the summer training camp, but most who don't get drafted (and a few who do) get cut before the season begins. There is a reality TV show in the US called Hard Knocks about NFL training camp where they follow the players through the uncertainty.
Teams can only have 53 players in the NFL and when you consider there are 11 starting players on offense, 11 starting players on defense, and back ups for each, that's 44 players. All teams typically have a kick off kicker, a field goal and extra point kicker, and a punter. So that's already 47 out of 53 players. The rest are reserves or "special teams" players who block and tackle on kickoffs and punts and wait until anothe player is injured to ge to play.
When players are cut from a team they become "free agents" meaning any one can sign them to a contract for whatever they can negotiate. Those who don't get signed can often be on a team's "practice squad" to help the team get ready for the games but they don't get to travel with the team or enjoy the big money or the union benefits of being on an NFL team. It just keeps them close to the team in case a player gets hurt or leaves so they can get a chance to sign a contract.
The real "socialism" of the game comes in the revenues. Because the teams in the largest media markets (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, etc) make the most money they would get the best players every year if not for revenue sharing and the salary caps. Revenue sharing involves teams sharing the TV revenues and merchandise revenues along a pre-defined percentage, and salary caps prevent a team from spending substantially more than other teams. Essentially (with some exceptions) teams are limited in how much they can spend on player salaries. So let's say the team cap is $208 million per year (as it was in 2022) and your best player makes $38 million, all the other 52 players have to share the remaining $170 million. Finding the balance to field a great team is difficult so all teams are essentially designed to be a middle level team but a few stars here and there make all the difference. Honestly the difference between teh best team in hte league and the worst might be one or two players in the right position or a coach who's a little bit better than theother coaches. A team with 2 wins and 15 loses may compete very well with a team that has 15 wins and 2 losses for most of the game.
So to acquire and keep players, contracts have to be structured in weird ways. Players get a certain amount guaranteed at signing or get a singing bonus which is not part of their salary, or they take pay for a long time after they leave a team, and if trded the subsequent team has that obligation to pay them. Some players are declared "franchise players" which exempts them from the salary cap but also prevents them from being traded and prevents them from getting as high a salary as they could make on the open market.
You asked about how they acquire players. At the start of the league year there is a free agent period where teams can sign unsigned players or trade for players. Then we have the draft where the team that finished worst gets the first pick of college players that entered the draft and the team that won the Super Bowl gets the 32nd pick and each team picks in order depending on how they finished the season before. The can also trade draft picks. After the draft is over there is a period where teams will sign players that went undrafted as undrafted free agents. Then there's another free agency period where trades can be made or players that are unsigned can be be signed. Trades can be made until around the 5th or 6th week of the new season, but players can still be signed at any point in time. There is a salary cap that each team MUST observe. Each year the league sets the cap and you may not spend more than that cap. If you trade a player that still has for example 2 years left on his contract and he is owed $20,000,000 then the team that traded him will be assessed $10,000,000 in "dead cap money" or "cap money" against the total cap for the remaining 2 years of that players contract.
When you pass the "yellow line" where ever you get downed is the new start point to measure the next 10 yards. To answer how many sets of 4 tries you get all depends on how far passed the yellow line you get before you are stopped by the defense. Some times you just barely get over the line and sometimes you can run all the way to the endzone.
Most players come from Uni teams and some don't even graduate before they are drafted. There have been players that didn't go to college that made the NFL but it is far more common to come from a school. In fact they will often introduce the starting lineup by the players saying which school they attended.
Most sports broadcast on American markets have adverts timed for natural breaks in play such as injuries, time outs, planned breaks, intermission, and so on. Some games include tv breaks where the station can either cut to commentary or cut to adverts. In that last instance, it is considered a planned/ accepted time out that both teams can take advantage of.
Breaks can include can competitions add mentioned (eg a random fan is invited to try a game skill), or a cultural item by a local organization, college, or school like a marching band, acrobatic team, local singer or band, or a performing arts group or school/ class. For instance, my high school had an athletic gymnastics squad that would do a halftime show for the local NBA team once or twice most years, that sort of thing is pretty common all over the country in most pro sports. A lot of local and amateur talent are invited to do these sort of events.
20:13 Less than 1% of college football players make it to the NFL and even then, they'll have to compete to get in and stay in. NFL stands for (Not For Long). The average NFL career is 4-5 years. The NFL is an elite sport. The goal of the NFL is to have a Messi or CR level player at each position. Does it achieve that, no but it strives for it. It’s a chess game, 75% strategic. An individual sport within a team concept. The most TEAM sport in all of sports.
Just so you are aware, the Jaguars are not moving. The city of Jacksonville and Shad are committed to keeping the Jaguars in town. That is why they have agreed to a proposed 1.2 BILLION dollar stadium rebuild.
This process would take about two seasons to complete. They aren’t tearing it down, but generally taking it down to the bones and expanding the Concorde around it, adding a teal tented glass roof, upon other architectural features, like a fake jungle that looks so real you’d think you’re in the Amazon. It’s all about the atmosphere and I think they are gunnkng to compete with So-Fi stadium.
Another point about the NFL, your size, speed and athleticism is always a factor, however, every position has its own baseline for what is expected and what a player may be compared to. Offensive linemen for example are often the biggest and heaviest players, and are expected to have certain physical traits and athletic qualities. Quarterbacks have a different baseline for height and weight, skills and athletic features, as well as running backs, who are often shorter and more mobile, but still strong and fast. Wide receivers can be various heights, but of course are expected to have physical traits or athletic skills to help their game. Each defensive position has its own baseline. Each football player only plays one position, at most 2, and it’s usually an offensive position, or a defensive position, and the special teams crew is made up of a few specialty players, and a few layers from both sides of the ball. The sport is very very intricate.
The next season starts in September. Definitely would watch more on this!
In American professional sports, there is generally no segregation between the home and away fans (like in football in Europe) because the number of away fans tends to be small due to the distances involved. Fans of visiting teams normally sit amongst the home fans and usually there's no trouble other than a bit of banter... possibly escalating to verbal abuse. Security, stewards, and police are ever present during most games, so they step in quickly if it esacalates to something worse.
Perhaps the one time you will have a dedicated section of away fans in American sport is in college (university) American football. Universities typically have the largest stadium capacity (with a lot of bench seats vs individual seats). University alumni (and fans of the team who may have never taken a class at the school) are willing to travel great distances to see the school team play. Or alumni from one school may live near their school's opponent for the week.
One of the cool things about the money surrounding the NFL is you CAN have 1 team make more money than others. Usually winning helps, but cultivating a fan base that is willing to buy your merchandise and pay for attendance are the main wealth indicators. The salary cap does allow some fairness, though. You can spend all of your money on one or two key players, but then you cant pay your support pieces. They will probably move to another team, leaving you with trash players. However, the newer talent may work really hard to show that they deserve a ton of money. This means you CAN have cheaper players that play very well. It's a decent system.
I watched a documentary about the origins of American football. They said in the late 19th century the Ivy league colleges and specifically Harvard chose to play rugby rules football over the traditional football which was known at the time as soccer football. Apparently, soccer comes from the word 'association'. If I can find the link to the documentary, I will update this comment.
I’m only watching this because he looked so enthusiastic about his tests.
The way football is in America Some of us and most professionals have been playing the combat sport that we love since Turning the age.4 😂
There's an advert every time there's going to be a pause in the game, be it an injury, a time-out, a touchdown, a field goal, like... whatever. In fact, if there hasn't been a reason for the game to stop in a while, they have been known to take a "television time out", so they can show adverts. Welcome To Football!!!
I will say as a jets fan, if I saw this two years ago I’d wholeheartedly agree but our newest management has been killing it recently.
And strangely the Lions did well in the draft this year as well
The NFL is for all body types. Smallest player 5'5" 165lbs (1.6 meters 74kg) to 6'8" 380lbs (2.1 meters 172kg)
Generally we have commercials anytime there is a stoppage in play. Get hurt or call a timeout - get a commercial.
the parody is what makes things so exciting. anyone can win. if they win often its the players being good as a team
The Seattle Sounders FC (soccer) will put the visiting fans in their own sections if the stadium isn't full. Mostly for Vancouver or Portland games, because that's were there's literal trains-fulls of people coming up together, and having them in their own area, with their own bathrooms, and their ticket sales through their home teams is just easier.
People have been saying the jags are leaving jacksonville since 2010. Ticket sales since then have been middle of the road though. The place looks empty because most of the people in the stadium hangout in the “bud zone” to escape the sun.
"Do you have adverts between the quarters, or just big blocks of adverts?"
Yes :)
Football Rugby and Soccer all grew out of similar games (as in every school had its own set of rules. American Football started as basically Rugby, (though the first college match was more proto-soccer), BUT they were a lot more willing to change rules and borrow from other codes. The biggest separation from other codes is the allowance of interference (blocking), as well as maintaining possession. Rugby League is pretty similar to where this split started (but it came later, and has no blocking). By 1880 American rules were quite distinct, forward passing came in round 1905 because things got too violent. Professional leagues that survived (NFL) date from 1920 or so (before that college started in 1870ish and then there were factory teams and sports clubs. The pros and the colleges have separate but similar rules sets, there is no "FIFA" or "FIBA" One reason rule changes happened was that there were a LOT more colleges and the founders (mostly "Ivy league", brought a bunch of "Land Grant" (mostly State) schools onto the committee early, which kept the rules changing, unlike Rugby.
There is a competition in the UK that requires people of a particular physical quality: The Royal Navy Field Gun Competition that I saw back when my unit traveled to London and participated in the Royal Tournament. I got to hang out with these gents and they were some massive fellows. They have to be to pick up a canon and heft it up over a wall. They could easily be pro American Football players. Kudos to the Royal Navy from a US Marine.
In almost all cases, A person entering the NFL has to declare for the NFL draft after college and the worst teams pick first and the best team picks last and theres 7 rounds of the draft so 7 cycles of worst team first, best team last. Then when drafted players are under contract for 4 years and become a “free agent” and can sign wherever they want. The catch is the league has a “salary cap” which is the most amount of dollars you can pay your players in total per year and each team cannot go over it. This year it was 203 million as the max for each team to spend. That’s basically how it works
Oh shit he explained it right after I did lol
Going from one country in Europe to another is like going from one state in the U.S. to another. Also, If a team petitions to move, the NFL has final say on whether it is allowed. If an NFL team petitioned to move to Europe, it probably wouldn't be allowed unless there was some stipulation that they would remain in the U.S. during the season. Which means they would have to find a facility to use as a home field (except maybe for the one or two games that are played overseas already).
"I feel really bad for the Jaguars fans if their team moves to London."
I'm sure they'll both get over it.
They wear those bags over their heads for a reason 😅
Jaguars would have to figure out how to deal with actual fans.
At that point, the question will become "what Jaguars fans?"
All 3 of my children (1son,2 daughters) knew the basics of football at the age of 5.
How original… you wouldn’t dare tweet this or we’d destroy you like we destroyed Annie.
College sports are more typically separated by fanbase in the stands than pro sports. Including student sections and seating for the band from each school.
You got to watch more of his videos!!! love the NBA one too. great watch
They have ads after:
The end of a quarter
A time out is called (up to 6 times per half)
A player is injured and cannot stand easily
The end of play when the ball is punted
A play needs to be reviewed by refs
Points are scored
A kickoff that is not at the start of a half
Something weird happens that interrupts the game (like the power outage during Super Bowl XLVII)
Jags consistently rank in the top 25 in attendance and have never been last which is amazing considering how poorly ownership has treated the fans. Those shots were not during the game as you can see no players on the field. That guy’s an idiot who’s drinking the media koolaid. They’ve been saying the Jags should move since 95 and it’s never gonna happen. Shad has sunk hundreds of millions into the city of Jacksonville. And they have an ironclad lease until at least 2035. Go Jags. DUVAL!
The word "segregated" in America has a different context, had me going for a second there.
@15:20 hard to say how many plays to get down the field. I would say a successful drive (possession) would be around 10ish plays. They can however be one play or be far more than 10. Just try and think of how many ways for you to go 100 yards with 4 chances to get ten yards at a time and add in the penalties that can push you forward and back.
Redzone is the best thing to happen to football since the yellow 1st down marker, I could never go back to watching 1 game at a time with 5min of commercials every 3min
Ill try to give you the basics... The object of the game is to score touchdowns and/or field goals. There are 11 players on offense and 11 players on defense at all times. The game starts with a kickoff from the 35 yard line to the other team. Most of the time the ball goes into the end zone and the receiving team gets the ball on their own 25 yard line to start their offense. The kicking team starts on defense. The receiving team can choose to try and return the kick, but if you get it on the 25, why risk the injuries? The offense has the ball and they get 4 plays to gain 10 yards. Gaining ten yards is called a "first down" as it's the first down of the four downs they get to gain 10 yards. After three plays, if they haven't picked up 10 yards, they may opt to use their 4th down to try to get the 10 yards which would give them 4 more plays to get another 10 yards OR they will most likely choose to punt the ball to the other team. Once the other team has possession of the ball they go on offense and the original team goes on defense. There are four 15 minute quarters to a professional or college game. At the end of 60 minutes of play whoever has the most points is the winner. In a professional game there are 7 officials charged with ensuring the rules are being followed. They are the Back Judge, Side Judge, Down Judge, Umpire, Referee, Field Judge and Line Judge. Each has different responsibilities. The Referee is the head official in charge of the game. The number of times the yellow line can be moved can be determined by penalties on plays. You could have a drive that takes 16 to 18 or even more plays to get all the way down the field or it could be achieved with one play such as a break away run or a long pass where the receiver gets behind the defense. If you started on your own one yard line and had 99 yard to go for a touchdown and you got exactly 10 yards each series of downs, after exactly 10 series of downs you would have a touchdown and the yellow line (otherwise known as "the line to gain") would have moved 9 times. Where the point of the football is is called the line of scrimmage. The length of the football from tip to tip as it sits on the ground is called the neutral zone. Neither team, other than the center's hand, maybe be in the neutral zone when the ball is snapped (or sent back from the center to the quarterback) to start the play. When the offensive line is set and ready to play, they may not move at all. Any perceptible flinch by any one of them is a foul. The defense is allowed to move at will, but may not enter the neutral zone until the ball is snapped.
The best way to understand the appeal of American football is to understand that it's a match that's won or lost based on the outcome of a series of "minigames:" one coach's strategy versus his opponent's, the offensive line versus the defensive line, a cornerback versus a receiver, and ten others, each decided one five-second play at a time. A team may win 95% of these minigames, but lose the bigger match because of the failure in the remaining 5%. And then, when you add in a particular team's history against their opponent or the ramifications of a win or a loss on that specific day, the drama of the sport is exponentially increased "on any given Sunday." It takes time and experience with the league to understand all of the subtext, but when you do, the NFL is supremely compelling. It's like a book that starts a bit slow--building it's world. In the beginning, you might wonder why you even started, but by the climax, you'll be completely invested.
About teams suddenly leaving... Consider that my hearthome town of Oakland had it happen twice. From the same team. Oh double heartache.
the tournament you are referring to is the draft. each team gets a certain number of draft picks depending upon where they finish in the rankings at the end of the season. at the start of spring training, each team will have around 80 - 100 personnel vying for a spot on the team and at the start of the season, they can have no more than 50 players (this includes the starters, backups, and practice squad). Unlike in Premier League Football/Soccer, each team is capped at how much they can pay for the entire team (for example, the Cleveland Browns salary cap might be $350 million. so the entire teams salary cant exceed $350 million)