The changing face of American Football

American Football Canton, Ohio, in 1920, but was largely regional amateur sport that has gained importance in the rear of the American favorite pastime, baseball. However, after the Second World War ended and television was born, a few games on television. In some ways, football and television at the same time and have enjoyed a symbiotic relationship since. Today, football is the television networks of billions of dollars and football takes nearly half the American public glued to their games. Hundreds of games are broadcast weekly. In the 1960s, professional football is about baseball that favorite spectator sport in America and the Superbowl is the most watched event in history.

It is difficult to say what is good for the growing popularity of this game is a game intensly physical, a point often obscure what a strategy game of football. It is possible that changes in the strategy for its fan appeal.

In the 1950s, children in football, the game was played in the basic strategy of the ball and time of possession. The basic philosophy was that the team was in control of the ball and attack the team on the ground, the less chance of its opponent could score. Two teams in the American Midwest, the Chicago Bears, coached by George Hall and the Green Bay Packers, with Vince Lombardi at the helm, the cornerstone of the traditionally defensive football.

During the 1950s, both have strong defenses gloried. Other teams copied their styles and football games, a game where men spent an afternoon battleing a few meters from the surface with little movement in all directions. This was suddenly changed by the events in California. In the new American Football League, Daryl Lamonica Oakland Raiders, is changing the style of football by taking the game by switching to new heights. In 1969, he threw an unknown 34-low, and reach over 3300 yards. It's not only earned him the nickname "The Mad Bomber", but also changed the way football was played.

The strategy of ball control was set aside by a quarter which could lead the attack mark in a few seconds. The long passage was born and was popular with spectators. The progress and momentum of the game can be changed in a heart beat. The teams had to adapt by modifying their recruitment strategy and a strong army a quarter of their own country. Passing plays, developed for different situations began to dominate the team books.

This phenomenon reached its climax with the difficult transition to chip and is designed by Bill Walsh of the San Francisco 49ers and their quarterback, Joe Montana. During their reign during the late 1970s and 1980s, the term "finesse" was added to the vocabulary used and the football as often as "serious." The 49ers added another innovation strategy in football, quarterback mobile. Steve Young, also successively as a watch, was an athlete who might gain as a film backwards. As a result, a quarter more and more dangerous adversary, and the defense had to work hard to guess whether the youth and other new-style quarter is gone or just spend the first down.