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[quote=Anonymous][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]
With this description, you will see words under the score that say something like "2nd and 5" which means it's the 2nd down and they have 5 yards to go (to get their 10 yards). Or you might see "3rd and 2" which means 3rd down and 2 yards to go. Sometimes, you'll see something like "3rd and 15" which means they got some negative yards during their time with the ball and have a lot of work to do. This can happen because of a penalty where yards were added, or because the quarterback was sacked (tackled) when he took a step back to pass the ball and never got a chance to pass it. That step back resulted in negative yards.[/quote]
You ladies are funny! My advice to OP is to just say that she doesn't know anything about football and enjoy the party. Knowing the BASIC rules (if you can call those rules) is only a start but will lead to too many annoying questions like, "why did they do that?".  Just go and have fun.[/quote]

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