it's a billion-dollar business and the most popular sport in America
but do you know where football came from any 1860s the British gamer rugby came
to America
at the same time athletic clubs began to pop up around the country
a variation a rugby called american football started to gain steam
on November 6 1869 teams from Rutgers and Princeton met in the first
intercollegiate football game
back then there were twenty minute each team and the game with a lot like rugby
there were no four passes and dangerous massive pile up for common
in 1892 the coach from you know cut the number of players on each team to 11
and instituted a system of down were familiar with today but the game was
still brutal
by 1905 nearly a hundred maybe player suffered serious injuries and were
18 deaths went to football president teddy roosevelt called upon Harvard Yale
and Princeton
the come up with reforms to change the game degraded the NCAA
instituted the forward pass on september seventeenth nineteen twenty the American
Professional Football Association was formed
the 10-team league only lasted two years but was reorganized in 1922 as the
National Football League arrival League the American Football League was formed
in nineteen sixty
the two organizations competing for players with drove up salaries
in 1966 they merged and agree that each league champion with me in a game called
the Super Bowl in the ensuing years football has become the most popular
sport in America
a billion-dollar business and a key part of American Thanksgiving
and New Year celebrations the Super Bowl is now unofficial holiday and a
worldwide phenomenon