Why Is It Important To Play Football

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Many people say that Football has had a big impact on their child's life, while at the same time they are making new friends on their football team. With the team-building skills, amazing history, and equipment that is improving everyday, Football is a great sport to learn about the past and the present of the sport, also to have a really good time and make new friends on the team. Football is a very great sport, but there's injuries involved in it just like any other sport. When thinking about letting a child play the sport it makes it hard to think about, is a parent capable of taking that risk of their child getting hurt while playing football are would they let them try something they might turn out to love? With the team-building skills, …show more content…

If there not it could result in the other team scoring a touchdown are the whole team being punished the next time that they go to practice. Also, they need to be able to have trust in their teammates to ask where they’re supposed to be, and for them to not to not get mad or laugh because that may make them upset or not want to play the sport anymore. When playing Football people should always be able to ask their teammates what to do and they should be able to trust them that's why this sport has so much to do with …show more content…

William (Pudge) Heffelfinger was the first professional football player to actually get paid, his paycheck was $500, back then that amount of money was a lot. Football wasn’t well known other than the game played in 1869, until the 1880’s when a rugby player from yale, Walter Camp had changed the rules of football. Walter had made those rules, and then a few years later they were then divided up into all the elements of football now. Which included the running games and kicking games. Once the 1890’s struck almost every athletic club had established a football

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