Football

Football By Ethan C

Football is a fun sport where you try to get the football to the end of the field your facing to get a touchdown. You can either run the football until someone tackles you but if the other team knocks the ball loose and you drop it the team who grabs the ball first gets the ball. But you can also throw the ball and if someone on your team catches it they run as far as they can until they get tackled or if they reach the end zone but if the other team catches it then he can run toward the opposite end zone that the team that threw the ball was facing until they get tackled. If you throw the ball and no one catches it than you gain no yards but you don't lose any yards. You get four tries to gain a total ten yards to get another four tries or downs ten yards and you keep going until you get a touchdown or if it's forth down you can use it as a regular down and try to gain the yards you need to get the four more downs. But if you don't get far enough the other team gets the ball where you where. But you can also punt the ball and the other team retrieves it and they try to score.A touchdown is six points but after that you can try to kick the ball over a crossbar ten feet off the ground and between two posts 18 feet apart thats on the cross bar at both ends to get one extra point. If you kick the ball from anywhere on the field and it goes through the two posts you get three points. If your team gets a touchdown after that you kick it to the other team and they try to score. There is usually four quarters and each quarter ten minutes long. At the end the team with the most points wins. If it is a tie then you go into overtime and the first team to score wins.