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If you are a professional football player, and especially if you are a retired professional football player, the risk of long-term health problems from injuries is high. And one of the most uncomfortable long-term health problems happens inside the brain. Concussions are common in football, and the human brain does not respond well to them. [...]
Come Sunday, many of us will gather around the television set to watch the Super Bowl. Some of us love this event because of the snacks involved (mmm, chicken wings!), some people want to see the latest commercials and some of us are suckers for the half-time show. Then there are those who will actually watch and care about the game. But don’t make assumptions about who falls into which category based on gender! According to several articles bouncing around the Web, the old stereotype that women can’t tell their quarterback from their running back has been dead for awhile.
Thankfully, there are no gators in Scotland, where the “the beautiful game” is played in swampy conditions.
It’s called the Swamp Soccer World Cup, set to take place in a muddy bog the weekend of June 25th, 2011, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Are you signed up? Do you have a team name? Is it “Mudchesthair United”? No, it isn’t. That name’s already taken.
Turning today’s football coverage into 90′s style 16-bit video games
by Marshall Brain | December 21, 2010
Here is the play as it appeared on television this weekend. It really is a great play: And here is the same play rendered as a 16-bit video game: You might ask. Why? This article offers an explanation: For several years, a small group of dedicated football enthusiasts have taken to their Tecmo Bowl (NES) [...]
Football is a little like the tax system – if you study the rules closely you can find loopholes. Once you find a loophole you can exploit it at least once on the field in the form of a trick play. The “trick” is that you know the rules better than your opponent when the [...]
Are you a parent? Are your kids playing sports? Or are you a person who spends a lot of time in a gym? Here’s something new to worry about. In the following article you will learn that MRSA is a real threat, and it affects a surprising number of athletes: This is a staph infection [...]
Many in the United States have been looking forward to football season. But recently the sport has been getting a lot of attention for the effects of the massive violent collisions that take place as part of the game. The size and speed of the athletes that play American football is astonishing, and they hit one another with a great deal of force. Players use sophisticated protective gear to keep themselves as injury free as possible…
Look, I will admit it: I know absolutely nothing about football. I don’t know Peyton Manning from Eli Manning, and I only know who Tom Brady is because of the famous women he has babies with. But nevertheless, I am psyched for Sunday’s Super Bowl between the Colts and the Saints. Even though I had to look up just now who was playing, the Super Bowl will be fun. Why? Because of Super Bowl parties.
In the wake of football mascot Uga VII’s death, PETA is demanding that the University of Georgia turn to costumed mascots or, yes, robot dogs instead of subjecting a poorly bred English bulldog to hot, humid games. What say you, football fans, robots and animal lovers?
Virtual first down lines are used to indicate where play resumes in football — but how do they work? Listen in as Marshall Brain explains how the technology superimposes a virtual line in this podcast on HowStuffWorks.com.
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