...yd 48.9 m ide. At both ends of the 100-yard dimension, hite lines called goal lines mark off the entrances to the end zones. Each team defends one end zone. A team must carry, pass, or kick the ball into the 10-yd 9-m end zone on the opponents half of the field to score. Lines parallel to the end zones cross the field at 5-yd 4.5-m intervals. These lines give the field a resemblance to a large gridiron. Another set of lines, knon as the sidelines, runs along both sides of the field. In addition, to ros of lines, called hash marks, run parallel to the sidelines. The hash marks are 53 ft 4 in 16.3 m from each sideline in college and high school football, and 70 ft 9 in 21.6 m from each sideline in the National Football LeagueNFL. A game of football is divided into four periods, knon as quarters, each consisting of 15 minutes of playing time. The first to periods constitute the first half the second to comprise the second half. Beteen the halves, a rest period, usually lasting about 15 minutes, is permitted the players, ho may leave the field. The teams change halves of the field at the end of each quarter. The clocks stop at the end of each quarter and at certain other times, hen particular events occur or hen designated by the officials. Football is played by to opposing teams, each fielding 11 players. Each team tries to move the ball don the field to score in the end zone defended by its opponents. During a football game the teams are designated as the offensive team the team in possession of the ball and the defensive team the team defending a goal line against the offensive team. Players involved in kicking situations are knon as the special teams. The 11 players of the offensive team are divided into to groups. To protect themselves from the often violent bodily contact that characterizes football, players ear elaborate equipment, including lighteight plasticized padding covering the thighs, hips, shoulders, knees, and often the forearms and hands. Players also ear plastic helmets ith guards that cover most of the face. American football as made popular by teams representing colleges and universities. These teams dominated the game for most of the first 100 years of football in the United States The Super Bol is the final contest of the professional season and determines the leagues annual champion. Currently the Super Bol routinely finishes among the all-time top 50 programs in television ratings, and the 1994 game reached an estimated 750 million vieers around the orld. No probably the most important single-day sporting event in the United States, the Super Bol had more modest beginnings. In 1967 the champions of the American Football League and the NFL met in hat as called the AFL-NFL orld Championship Game. The name as later shortened to Super Bol, named after a childs toy, the Super Ball. In this first game, the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10. The Los Angeles Coliseum, site of the game, fell far short of a sellout, although tickets ere only 10 each. In comparison, the highest ticket price at the 1994 Super Bol reached 250, ith scalpers illegally charging more than tice that much.SajUmHnHuISS 1h. A!ia8i8NormalCJsHaJmHsHtHAiDefault Paragraph Font.Ui.HyperlinkBphSI00000000SSSXRrIiT89pARSNi2ie
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