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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 played in the United States and Canada.
A banner hangs in the Rogers Centre to commemorate Damon Allen's record-breaking pass in 2006. Derek Carr is the newest player added.. This is a list of gridiron football quarterbacks passing statistics for quarterbacks that have played outdoor professional football in North America.
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 ...
According to 2017 study on brains of deceased gridiron football players, 99% of tested brains of NFL players, 88% of CFL players, 64% of semi-professional players, 91% of college football players, and 21% of high school football players had various stages of CTE. [13] Other common injuries include injuries of legs, arms and lower back. [14] [15 ...
A pair of officials at a Maryland high school football game in September 2008. White knickers used to be worn by officials; black trousers are now standard.. For ease of recognition, officials are usually clad in a black-and-white vertically striped shirt and black trousers with a thin white stripe down the side (this was formerly white knickers with black/white striped stirrup stockings or ...
The two sports are considered the primary variants of gridiron football. American football is the most popular sport in the United States in terms of broadcast viewership audience. The most popular forms of the game are professional and college football , with the other major levels being high-school and youth football.
Gridiron (secret society), at the University of Georgia; Gridiron Club, a journalistic organization in Washington, DC, USA; The Gridiron Club (Oxford University), an undergraduate club founded in 1884
In gridiron football, the safety (American football) or safety touch (Canadian football) is a scoring play that results in two points being awarded to the scoring team. Safeties can be scored in a number of ways, such as when a ball carrier is tackled in his own end zone or when a foul is committed by the offense in its own end zone.