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Diagram of a Canadian football field, which is wider and longer than the American field. Gridiron football ( / ˈ ɡ r ɪ d aɪ . ər n / GRID -eye-ərn ), [ 1 ] also known as North American football , [ 2 ] or in North America as simply football , is a family of team sports derived from rugby football (and football , by extension) primarily ...
American football is played on a football field that is 360 by 160 feet (109.7 by 48.8 m). [1] The longer boundary lines are sidelines, while the shorter boundary lines are end lines. Sidelines and end lines are out of bounds. Near each end of the field is a goal line; they are 100 yards (91.4 m) apart.
This is a list of gridiron football quarterbacks passing statistics for quarterbacks that have played outdoor professional football in North America. Below is a listing of the combined professional football league leaders for passing yards, passing touchdowns, passing completions, and passing attempts.
Arena football is a variety of gridiron football designed to be played indoors. The game is played on a smaller field than American or Canadian football, designed to fit in the same surface area as a standard North American ice hockey rink, and features between six and eight players for each team playing at any given time depending on the league, resulting in a faster and higher-scoring game ...
American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, [nb 1] is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.
Field judge Brad Freeman (88) and line judge Jeff Seeman (45) at an NFL game in October 2014. In gridiron football, an official is a person who has responsibility in enforcing the rules and maintaining the order of the game. During professional and most college football games, seven officials operate on the field.
The flat in gridiron football is the area of the field extending ten yards into the defensive backfield from the line of scrimmage and extending outside the hash marks to the out-of-bounds lines (a distance of about 15 yards).
A field goal from that range has a low rate of success but was chosen over punting or going for a fourth down conversion. The dead zone (also known as four-down territory or no man's land ) is an area on the field of gridiron football where an offense is on their opponent's side of the field, but kicking a field goal would likely be ...