That's how American football was born
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And in Spain everything that we usually love football, however football is a sport that most of us do not follow or practice, while in the United States unleashes furor.
There is no doubt, along with baseball and basketball, football is one of the most popular sports in North America. Son of English rugby, although in Europe it is a sport with little popularity, in the United States it is one of the disciplines that most fanatics gather. But what is its history, how was it born and why are there so many who follow it?
The emergence of American football
In the mid-nineteenth century in England there were many entertainment activities with a ball, and although it seems strange football and our football emerged in the same environment, only that as both disciplines were evolving and acquiring their own rules and characteristics they distanced themselves to only share a noun: soccer.
In this particular case, rugby is the discipline that is the father of this sport, which went from England to the United States, a country in which it began to evolve differently until it gained its own character.
Near the end of the 19th century, rugby was played in North America, but it seemed that some adjustments were needed to make it the perfect sport for Americans. Walter Camp was the pioneer of this change, for that then student of the university of Yale, enclosure in which the rugby was quite popular. He graduated in 1891 but by the following year Camp had already proposed some of the changes that are now part of this game: the downs system, the snap back from the center, the points system, the safety and the offensive lines that in Currently, they are used in this discipline.
All these changes began to be applied by American universities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, thus giving rise to the birth of American football but with an obvious aesthetic difference for that moment: it was not necessary to use the current uniform, a more modern contribution because the activity acquired greater contact between players.
From the beginning of the 20th century to the present day
The popularity of college football matches was gradually increasing, so they began to perform internal competitions that gave rise to the bowls, the bowls that are now so acclaimed and famous. In 1920 the American Professional Football Association was created, two years later it would change its name to the National Football League NFL, giving rise to the professional emergence of this discipline, which went from a practice carried out in universities to become a sport with a hobby at a national level.
By 1970, Americans could already enjoy the first Super Bowl, one of the meetings with the highest audience nationwide that today continues to be the sport competition most seen in this country.
That's how the humble rugby traveled from Europe to America to transform, become a new discipline and unleash fury among millions of spectators who acclaim football as one of the favorite national sports. But they are not the only ones, Canadians and Mexicans have professional leagues of this discipline that is highly acclaimed in those countries.
Outside American borders, American football also has its followers. In Argentina, Uruguay, Germany, Holland, Spain or Japan there are those who follow him closely to enjoy his intense encounters full of action, indescribable careers and great feats.
Undoubtedly one of the most intense and exciting versions of football of all time.
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