Personal Narrative: American Professional Football

The cap was introduced to the NFL in 1994, with a set cap of $34.6 million. The amount of revenue that the league produces each year determines if this number is adjusted or not. Before

Founded in 1920, the NFL is an independent association that now includes 32 distinctly owned professional football teams. With the teams, they each have their own name, logo, colors, and owns intellectual property. The 32 teams produce an annual season of football games that ultimately leads to the Super Bowl championship. All of the teams made their own arrangements for licensing their intellectual property and marketing trademark items. In 1963, the teams came to a collective agreement to form the National Football League Properties (NFLP) to license, develop, market the intellectual property of the teams.

The rules and the way it was played were still very rugby like, this was until a man named Walter Camp came along and completely changed the way this game was played. Camp was an unreal player at Yale University and is known as the father of American football. Camp helped write the first rules for American football — which were already being played in universities on the East Coast and in Canada in about 1876. These changes included reducing the number of people from 15 players to 11 players and replacing the traditional rugby scrum to the kickoff. Camp also created the rule that a team needed to gain 5 yards in three plays in order to keep possession.

Daniel Scott Mr. Padgett US History Honors 30 January 2023 Character Analysis George Halas was a legendary American football coach, player and owner who was one of the co-founders of the National Football League (NFL). Born on February 2, 1895, in Chicago, Illinois, he was a crucial figure in the growth and development of the NFL and is widely considered one of the greatest coaches in the history of American football. In The Life and Legacy of George Halas written by Jeff Davis, the author states, “He was an innovator both on and off the field, and his influence can still be felt in professional football, even 21 years after his death”. (Davis 2004).

Camp helped create the point system for touchdowns, field goals, points after touchdowns, safeties.(Ronald A. Smith) Camp also made the requirement that a team give up the ball after failing to advance a specified yardage in a certain number of downs.(Encyclopedia Britannica 2) According to Ronald A. Smith, Walter Camp unsuccessfully opposed introduction of the forward pass, which was put into effect in 1906 and eventually led to more open and interesting games. Camp led the movement which transformed rugby football into American football. Camp created the american version of football which became the domnit college sport.

The NCAA was created in the year 1906 which deals with the college football athletes in America today. The NFL, established in 1920, identified as the professional level of football athletes. The following six articles-three informative, three persuasive- examine the three year rule created by the NFL. Three of the article's intend to inform on what the three-year rule does and means. The NCAA is involved because the three rule states that a student must have three years of college ball under their belt before they can go pro.

Legendary halfback Jim Thorpe was recruited to join the team, which earned its first league title in 1927 under head coach Earl Potteiger. The Giants shut out 9 of 12 opponents and surrendered only 20 points during the entire season. (New York Giants Team History) In just its third season, the team finished with the best record in the league at 11–1–1 and was awarded the NFL title. In a 14-year span beginning in 1933, New York qualified to play in the NFL championship game eight times, winning twice (1934 and 1938).

In 1920, the National Football League (NFL) was founded and found success throughout the years. As the NFL grew more popular, wealthy entrepreneurs sought to buy their own teams in new cities, expanding the league. NFL commissioner Bert Bell refused to expand the league as he was being accused of monopolizing the football industry. As a result, Lamar Hunt decided to create his own league, thus the American Football League (AFL) was founded in 1960, challenging the authority of the NFL.

In the true story based movie and the documentary, the dangers of head injuries in football are laid out for the viewer. Dr. Bennet Omalu discovered the brain injury chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE; however, the NFL was in denial about the effects football had on the brain and had on causing CTE. I believe that the NFL’s denial to the accusations were detrimental to many football players and that serious consideration should be taken into the way football is played overall. When Dr. Omalu originally diagnosed CTE on Mike Webster and the NFL denied that football was the cause for his death and disease.

Generally people think that the NFL should adjust the game, and its rules to increase player safety, statistics clearly show that too much adjusting has been done and the NFL is suffering because of it. Too many rules have been changed for player safety and the current changes being discussed, like getting rid of the kickoff, are going to far and the game is not like it was. Players sign contracts and are aware of the risks they put themselves at when playing the game of football at a professional level. Referees are throwing more flags and the NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell, is handing out a record high of fines. These adjustments by the National Football League are going too far and some rule changes need to be reverted back to their previous rules.

The football that we know today started in 1922 when the American Professional Football Association change its name to the National Football League. The team with the best regular season record was the champion. in 1960 a second national football league was started to compete with the NFL. Eventually it ended up the being two conferences to make up the NFL, the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference. The two implemented a system of playoff games and the champions of the two conferences went head to head in a game called the Superbowl.

American football has many different aspects that helped change America today. Football has earned millions of fans to the game every year. The sport has changed and helped various people strive through life. At the same time, football has caused many downsides that have changed people’s lives forever. Through the beginning to now, football has been filled with many impacts and injuries that have changed the game.

In "When Theodore Roosevelt Saved Football", Bruce Watson enlightens us on how President Roosevelt saved the violent game of football by making it safer for the players. In the early 1900s football was a deadly sport. The players wore little protective gear, running backs could tackle before the ball was even hiked, and linemen could not pass the ball causing them to sometimes sustain fatal injuries. Many people wanted the game banned because of its fatality to the players. Harvard did but had to reinstate it because the students loved and wanted it back.

“Thus football on Thanksgiving tradition became firmly established in Detroit” (First Thanksgiving Day Game 4). The most famous and longest football tradition smoothly started in the 30’s. “The first Pro bowl game was played in 1939” (“All Decades”1). The game were we see our favorite players together and against each other in one game started in the 1930’s. The NFL’s all star game has changed, but it was founded in the 30’s.

The price tag for NFL is a couple hundred million dollars(Zimmerman). Over 40% of NFL that is not playing anymore have characteristics of having a severe injury to the brain. The NFL found that it was 271 concussions in 2015 (Burdick). Eighteen people have died while playing football in 1905 but there was a gathering that made changes to guaranteed players safety. This is why people need to have the proper gear.