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Offensive touch football player tries to get out of reach of defending player. Touch football is an amateur variant of American football and Canadian football.The basic rules are similar to those of the mainstream game (called "tackle football" for contrast), but to end a down, the person carrying the ball need only be touched, instead of tackled, by a member of the opposite team. [1]
Because football is a high-contact sport requiring a balance between offense and defense, many rules exist that regulate equality, safety, contact, and actions of players on each team. It is very difficult to always avoid violating these rules without giving up too much of an advantage.
American football rules allow each team to have three timeouts in each half, and the NCAA, NFL & Texas high school football stops play for a "two-minute warning". Before 2024, NCAA football had no two-minute warning, so the clock stopped on a first down until the ball is ready for play if the play ended in the field of play.
A standard football game consists of four 15-minute quarters (12-minute quarters in high-school football and often shorter at lower levels, usually one minute per grade [e.g. 9-minute quarters for freshman games]), [6] with a 12-minute half-time intermission (30 minutes in the Super Bowl) after the second quarter in the NFL (college halftimes are 20 minutes; in high school the interval is 15 ...
As the Chiefs head into the playoffs, NFL uniform rules ensure safety and fairness. Here’s what players can and cannot wear.
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The longest punt in North American pro football history is a 108-yarder by Zenon Andrusyshyn of the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts (at Edmonton, October 23, 1977). [11] This record was also tied by Christopher Milo of the Saskatchewan Roughriders on October 29, 2011, at a home game at Mosaic Stadium at Taylor Field in Regina ...
The NFL announced new rules that will change the look of kickoffs for the upcoming season with hopes of diminishing risk in what's called the most dangerous play in football.