The American Football :

Football's beginning was patterned in rugby, the English game that played with a lot of similarity in football. Rugby was first launched in 18th century by the well-known England's Rugby Boy's School. Football can also be compared to soccer, another game that originated in English and been played during the early 1820's.

College Football; Where it Begun?

At the Harvard University, freshmen and sophomore students competed in a football- type of the game played during the 1st Monday of every school year. This happening is also recognized as the "Bloody Monday" for the physical power of the game.

Shortly after the war on 1860's, colleges started to organize the football games. In 1867, Princeton leads the way to establish some basic rules of the game. Rutgers College did also established some rules in the same year and with a fairly distance among it with Princeton, the game was played by both colleges on November 6, 1869. The Rutgers College won and that was the first intercollegiate football game.

In 1873, legislative body from Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, and Yale meets in New York City to plan the very first intercollegiate football regulations because of the growing popularity of the game however played by means of various soccer rules. The four teams then establish the Intercollegiate Football Association, with 15 players on every team.

Coach Walter Camp of Yale University team appeals his aspiration for an 11-man team and it helped to begin the progression from rugby-style game to the modern American Football game. A committee leaded by Camp, shortly slashes the players' number as of fifteen to eleven.

In 1882 Walter Camp also introduces the arrangement of downs. Following first three attempts to move ahead the ball with five yards, in 1906 he succeeded in changing it to ten yards.

PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL TODAY

From modest start in 1869, where in the first intercollegiate game were played by Rutgers and Princeton, football has turned out to be a multi-billion dollar industry with its certified forms. Football is now offered for a global screening. For the arrival of cable television, college games could be viewed on Fridays and Saturdays afternoon while Professional games were viewed on Sundays and Mondays night.

Champions from National and American conferences meet into Super Bowl for the decision of who will be a national champion. The game is always played in January and this is the most watched sporting event of all time, surrounded by viewers around the world in the television.

Even though TV commercials set a very big part of the charge, the battle among TV networks of the coverage right extremely affects the worth of the National Football League franchises. In 1920, franchise was rated 100 US dollars. By 1960, every franchise was costing at about two million dollars.

And in 1993, when the league was certain to get bigger, selling teams' rate rises to the amount of one hundred forty millions dollars for every franchise. In this similar year, the National Football League sign a four-year TV contract for a five different networks that amounted for half a billion dollars.