Brief History and Knowledge of Football Football is a game played on a rectangular field (hundred twenty yards long and fifty-three yards wide) by two different teams, each with eleven members, with an inflated cowhide ball in an oval like shape. The purpose of the offensive side is score as many times as possible while the defense tries to stop that. To score, the offense must run the ball down the field to the opposing …showed first 75 words of 895 total…

…showed last 75 words of 895 total…which are divided into two different conferences: the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The teams play four exhibition games, continued by sixteen regular games. Since they have one game per week, the teams use their down time to practice, prepare, and recover from injuries for the next game. Since there is an odd number of teams, every team has a week during the season the do not play, bye week.