| Rules The name of the game is football. The point of football is to score the most points within the game. There are two sides of the field ate the end of each side is an end zone and a field goal post. If you run with the ball to the end of the field and get into the end zone without being tackled you get six points and a chance for either 1 or 2 more points. If you go for 2 you have to run it in again from three yards, if choose to go for 1 all you have to do is kick the ball through the field goal from 3 yards back. You get 4 downs to score unless you get a first down. The whole field is 100 yards long and in order to get a first down you must get ten yards from where you started. If you had a penalty though the its ten yards and the penalty yards. You can get a penalty for a lot of things. First is offensive penalties, the first is holding which is when a person grabs the shirt of the defense, next is clipping or hit from behind is when you hit someone from behind. Next is false start, this is when an offensive player is offside when the ball is snapped. Defensive penalties are called much more than offensive penalties. The first is offsides, offsides is when a player is lined up past the line of scrimmage when the ball is snapped. The next is a face mask, there are two penalties for this a major which is when you grab and yank the other players face mask, and a minor which is when you just drag your hand across the other player's face mask. The next is defensive holding, this is when a defensive player hold an offensive receiver and keeps him from running his route. The next is defensive pass interference, This is when a defensive player either tackles or gets in the way of the offensive player while ball is thrown to him and the defensive player makes it so the offensive player can't catch the ball. |