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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous](Forgive me if this description isn't perfect. I'm not an expert, but this is what I've gleaned in recent years.)

In a nutshell, here's football:

1) The teams take turns playing offense and defense. The team playing offense "has possession of the ball".

2) The team who has the ball has four tries to advance the ball 10 yards toward the other team's endzone. Each try is called a "down".

3) If they do advance the ball at least 10 yards, they get to keep the ball and start over at the 1st down to advance the ball another 10 yards. They do this until they score, fail to advance the ball 10 yards within 4 downs, or the other team steals the ball (usually by intercepting a pass but other things can happen to do this, too).

4) They can score by running the ball into the endzone, called a "touchdown" (6 points). Or they score by kicking the ball through the goal posts, called a "field goal" (3 points).

5) If they score a touchdown, they will try for a bonus point, by kicking the ball through the goal posts. This is easy and almost always a guaranteed point. If they really need more points, they can choose instead to try a "two point conversion" which involves running the ball into the endzone again. This is much harder, but more exciting if they make it.

6) Once a team scores, the other team automatically gets the ball. For the second half of the game, they switch end zones so don't be confused if the favored team is suddenly running in the opposite direction (like I was).[/quote]

Great description. It took me years to understand the downs, I wish I'd had this cheat sheet! Note on #4 that you can run the ball in or catch the ball while already in the end zone. [/quote]

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