/sp/, for my gym hw this week we have to write 10 facts about the game of football. this would usually take me 10 seconds, but i feel like finding some of the most unusual and rediculous facts possible. help me out /sp/!picture kind of unrelated, but represents the best in sports
not your personal football team
OP here, an example would be the length of a football field is 120 yards, a touchdown is worth 6 points, etc. Not the only undefeated team ever was the 1972 dolphins. just the game not the stats.
a football field is 120 yards long
since the Arizona Cardinals have become the Arizona Cardinals, they've only had 1 winning season (1998).
The forward pass was not legalized in football until 1906.
There is no way you're not underage.
>>96257yeah but i still know more about any sport than you guarenteed.
fun fact:the nfl could have been 30 games per season, but the white people in control knew that it would get talked about the rest of the year because of all the niggers that can't help but do stupid shit in the offseason
Fritz Pollard was the first black coach in the NFL.Bronko Nagurski has the largest recorded NFL Championship ring size at 19½ (86 mm inside circumferenceBronko Nagurski is the only player in NFL history to be named All-Pro at three non-kicking positions
The facts are supposed to be about the game of football, not stats in the nfl but whatever they're still fun to hear
>>96266Bronko Nagurski is the only player to be inducted into the Hall of Gods in Valhalla
The forward pass was not legalized until 1906 in a move to make the game saferThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill claims to be the first college team to use the forward pass in an 1895 game against the University of Georgia. However, the play was illegal at the time
>>96257and this isn't /b/
It's illegal for asians to play in the NFL. By federal law.
wouldn't it be more fun to make up some obscure bullshit and see if it gets you a good grade?the goalposts were moved from the front of the end-zone to the back after the death of larry o'leary in the 1967 packers/redsking game. o'leary caught a blindside block while blitzing and crashed his head into the support base and collapsed on the field.
>>96305I see what you did there!
>>96318not... sure... if.... right.
>>96331Hines Ward is Asian
The Packers are not the best team in sports, and the only people who think so are people who think wearing giant cheese hats makes them cool.
Famed Saints kicker Tom Dempsey once made a 63 yard field goal. Due to a birth defect, Dempsey had half a foot.
>>96350fuck you bearsfag in disguise
>>96352Who said I was in disguise?
>>96349Barely
The first ever Super Bowl MVP Max McGee was blitzed out of his mind and hungover for the whole game.To haze rookies in training camp, DE Charles Haley used to slap every rookie in camp in the face with his cock.Speaking of hazing, in Saints camp rookie Kyle Turley told his new teammates he refused to get hazed. A big group of veterans showed him by crushing and blowing out his knee. It almost ended his career.There's more...
not your personal army
the only openly gay player in the history of the NFL was a Viking O-Lineman.Not a surprise really.
Wait... you have homework for gym class?
Superman lieks football.
>>96351Mind = blown
Tomato's are neither vegetables or fruits
Football is called football only for the sole purpose of pissing off europeans.
>>96566!
>>96260Not the poster you are replying to, but you sound like a huge faggot with that comment.If you new so much you would not be asking this question dumb ass.
-American football sucks-There are too many rules-Padding is for pussies-The 20 minutes of game time are in between 3 hours of commercials.-No-one outside the US cares about American Football.You're halfway there.
Brett Favre's first completed NFL pass was to himself
Peyton Mannings vital stats:6'5" 230 lb. QB, laser-rocket arm.
The single wing is a man's formation.
The fumblerooski has been outlawed since 1992 in college, and sometime in the 60s for pros.The "Holy Roller" play led to the following rule changes in the NFL for 1979: If a ball is fumbled on fourth down or in the last two minutes of a game, only the fumbling player may advance the football.A limited system of instant replay was used from 1986-1992 in the NFL. It was brought back in its current form in 1999.Kickoffs were moved from the 40 to the 35 in 1974 and back to the 30 in 1994.Two-point conversion was introduced to college in 1958 and NFL in 1994.Hashmarks were narrowed in 1972 to increase scoring.
>>96975After your last statement i realized you were retarded
I wrote>>96975Disregard everything I said. I am from England and my peen peen is about as big a pinky. I like watching mexicans kick a ball to each other for 90 min while my daddy fists my bung hole.
When did gym start having homework? All I ever did in gym when I was in highschool was lift weights and play sports.
>>97080lol
The Patriots went 18-1
>>96975>No-one outside North America cares about footballfix'dlearn2CFLalso GB2Gaia
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