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Adult amateur football, also known as semi-pro football, is a level of American football. It is commonly known as "working man's" football, meaning the players have regular jobs and play football on the weekends. Though the players do not get paid, the leagues and the games are run in a somewhat professional manner.
The National Football League was founded in 1920 [2] and has since become the largest and most popular sport in the United States. [3] The NFL has the highest average attendance of any sporting league in the world, with an average attendance of 66,960 people per game during the 2011 NFL season. [4]
After periods of conference realignment in 2005 and the early 2010s that saw the expansion of the ACC, Big Ten, SEC, and Pac-10 (which changed its name to the Pac-12), the WAC reorganized as a non-football conference and the Big East split into the American Athletic Conference and a new non-football conference that retained the Big East name.
Football League with most clubs: +100 – Cape Verdean Football Championship [note 56] Shortest National Championship: 7 days – Greenlandic Football Championship [205] [206] Longest football match: 3 hours and 23 minutes – Stockport County 3–2 Doncaster Rovers, Football League Third Division North Cup, 30 March 1946 [207] [208] [note 57]
[13] [19] On October 3, 1920, the first full week of league play occurred. [20] [21] The following season resulted in the Chicago Staleys controversially winning the title over the Buffalo All-Americans. [22] On June 24, 1922, the APFA changed its name to the National Football League (NFL). [23] [24]
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In football, the winner is the team that has scored more points at the end of the game. There are multiple ways to score in a football game. The touchdown (TD), worth six points, is the most valuable scoring play in American football. A touchdown is scored when a live ball is advanced into, caught, or recovered in the opposing team's end zone. [54]
According to the New York Times, in 2006, 70% of high school football players were white and 20% were black. By 2018, those figures were 30% white and 40% black. [14] As of 2016, black youth are nearly three times more likely than white youth to play tackle football. [15]