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Football types: how to recognize the differences

Here is a small review on the different types of football all over the world:

Association football: This is commonly known as football or soccer, mostly played in Europe and Latin America.

Indoor football: It is basically the same as Association football, however, as the name establishes, it is played indoors. There are several types:

Five-a-side football: played throughout the world under various rules including:

  • FIFA approved Futsal which is played between two teams of five players each, one plays as a goalkeeper, and up to seven substitutes per team
  • Indoor soccer: A type of soccer played mostly in North America that was adapted to be played at an indoor arena such as a turf-covered hockey arena or skating rink.
  • Paralympic Football: A type of soccer modified to be played by athletes with a disability.
  • Beach soccer: Self explanatory this is football played on sand, commonly known as sand soccer.
  • Street football: Played informally, rules are set taking into consideration several varieties of football.
  • Keepie uppie: Also considered as a match up in some places, keepie uppie is the art of juggling with a football using feet, knees, chest, shoulders, and head.
  • Footbag: A kind of keepie uppie football played with a small bean bag or sand bag used as a ball in a number of keepie uppie variations, the most common being a hacky sack.
  • Freestyle Football: a modern style Keepie uppie. The players are called Freestylers are graded for their entertainment value and expression of skills. Requires lots of training and practice.

Soccer as you can see is also called football in most places around the world and the type of football played in North America is defined as American Football only, which is played in the NFL. In England the most common variation of football is Rugby.



NFL Champions History

To continue feeding the NFL fever I wanted to share with all of you NFL fans an interesting facts that shows the power, strength and spirit of true American Football. Let’s start by remembering that since 1970, the Super Bowl has served as the NFL championship game, prior to that merge, the National Football League Champion was determined by a team’s win-loss percentage, with ties omitted.

Since1934 the winning team for the NFL championship received the Ed Thorp Memorial Trophy, named like that in honor to a noted referee, rules expert, sporting goods dealer. The trophy was passed along from champion to champion each NFL season and each year the championship team’s name used to be inscribed on it along with a replica trophy for them to keep, however the original NFL championship trophy is now missing.

Among the most impressive NFL records of these championships:

· The Cleveland Browns’ Edwin “big play” Berry was the MVP for six straight appearances in the NFL championship game.

· The Green Bay Packers were the team with most NFL championships (12 in total) and won 3 straight championship games.

· In the 37 NFL Championship the teams from the Western Division / National / Western Conference won 25 of the games to the Eastern Division / American / Eastern Conference teams total of 12.

Regarding attendance to the NFL championship games, there are two very impressive dates:

  • Largest – 85,693 in 1955 at Los Angeles.
  • Smallest – 13,341 in 1941 at Chicago.

With all these fun facts, we would like to continue enjoying this year’s Super Bowl, NFL history is definitely being made while you are here reading this small article.



Famous NFL Related Movies. Great NFL stories of all time in movies

If are an NFL fan you have definitely shed a tear or two watching the very emotional Jerry Maguire; the 1996 film based on the “epiphany” received by a sports agent, his relationship with the only person that believed in him and how he “showed the money” to Cuba Gooding Jr. will always be a classic in our hearts. Yet, there have been many important and incredible blockbuster and independent films that portray the NFL life ad give us a chance to experience a deeper side of American Football.

“Any Given Sunday” is also a known favorite among NFL and sports fans. The movie shows the life of an experienced NFL coach and his struggles to keep his team together regardless the painful and problematic situations his players go through. A must see if you are interested on how things are handled behind the NFL curtains.

“Brian’s Song” is definitely an old classic: the movie from 1971 is about the friendship of two football players and their lives, the up and downs they need to go through and their own competition between each other as NFL stars.

One of my personal favorites is “Remember the Titans”, released in the year 2000, it is a true story of how black and white segregation of the 1970’s became less important when the white coach of an American Football team is replaced by an African-American football coach and players from both races are forced to play together as a team; NFL history at its best.

The last movie that I consider a famous NFL classic is a comedy from the very well known Adam Sandler: “Waterboy”. Although it is a comedy and it is not really about the NFL itself the whole story sweats team spirit and football’s funny side. The water boy of a college football teams discovers an unusual ability to tackle people way bigger than him and signs him to play for the team, after a while he becomes the best linebacker in college football.


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