In my opinion one of the most fascinating sports in the world is American Football. I have played football my whole life from age five till last year, I had to stop because I moved here and there is no football. Not to brag or anything but I think that I am an excellent football player, well at least I hope so seeing that I played for eleven years. Football was kind of a complicated sport when I first started playing, eleven different positions on offense and eleven different positions on defense. The field is broken up by yards and every ten yards a line is chalked throughout the whole field. On the sideline off the field these lines are marked with numbers, these numbers are as follows 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 40, 30, 20 and 10. The fifty yard line is in the middle of the field and there is an end zone with a goal post and either end of the field (by the 10 yard lines).
The offensive back field consists of a quarterback which is the leader of the team, a half back and a full back. The offensive line has a right tackle, a right guard, a center, a left guard and a left tackle. Also there are wide receivers which line up about 5 yards away from the offensive line and tight ends which line up next to the tackles (they are sometimes not even used). There has to always be eleven players on the field and at least seven players on the line of scrimmage. The line of scrimmage is an imaginary line that goes straight across the field to show what yard line the ball is on. The offense is in control of the ball and they can either run or pass the ball. The running backs (half back and full back) usually run the ball, although the quarterback or even the wide receiver can run the ball on a trick play. The quarterback also has the option to throw the ball to the half back, full back, tight end or wide receiver (the wide receivers usually get thrown to the most).
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