How to Play American Football

Thank you, I’m still confused 💀💀💀

You lost me at the first minute

I needed this since I'm joining my high school football team. Thank you.

As s soccer ( football ) fan watching this, I realized how simple soccer is 💀

This game is more complicated than finding Pi value

Thanks for the explanation. I still didnt understand.

I love how American sports are overcomplicated.

Thanks

Thank you so much for making this video, I never understood how this game works

As someone who likes football, this is kind of a confusing guide that adds a lot of unnecessary explanation so I’ll try to explain it a little simpler (updated after a while to be a bit easier to follow): Basic gameplay loop: -The offensive team has the ball, and is trying to move it to the other side of the field, while the defensive team is trying to prevent them from doing that at all costs. -The blue line shows where the line of scrimmage (the starting line) is, and the orange/yellow line marks 10 yards from the initial line of scrimmage. At the end of every play, the line of scrimmage is moved to wherever the last player to hold the ball was tackled. -The offense has 4 attempts (downs) to try to bring the ball from the initial line of scrimmage to the orange line. If they succeed, the down counter resets to 1 and the offense keeps the ball for another 4 attempts, rinse and repeat. If they fail, the ball is turned over to the defense and the starting line is wherever the ball touched the ground at the end of the previous 4th down. (Usually with a punt) -When the offense successfully reaches the other side of the field, they gain 6 points immediately. The offense then has two options: Kick the ball into the goalpost for 1 point (Field Goal), or get the ball from the 10-yard line to the endzone in a single play for 2 points (2-point conversion). If it’s 4th down and the offense believes they’re pretty close to the endzone, they can kick the ball into the goalpost (Field Goal) without scoring a touch down first for 3 points. -The ball is turned over to the other team after every touchdown or Field Goal when the scoring team’s kicker kicks the ball as far as he can towards the other endzone (kickoff), then a player from the previous defense can catch the ball and run as far as he can before he gets tackled. The next first down starts wherever that player who caught the ball was tackled. -The previously described gameplay loop repeats for four quarters with a halftime show at the end of the second quarter. Each quarter is 15 minutes of in-play time, but the amount of time the games last vary because the timer pauses a lot. You can stop here, but here’s some smaller stuff that you might need to know: -You don’t really need to know any positions other than Quarterback, Runningback, and Receiver. These are the offensive positions that are holding the ball 90% of the time. -A “Sack” is when the defense tackles the Quarterback (the guy who throws/hands off the ball) before he has the chance to move it up the field. It’s a big deal because it puts the offense farther away from the first down line. -Whenever a referee throws out a yellow flag, it indicates a foul (holding, false start, facemask, etc.), and whatever team that player was on gets a penalty between 5 and 15 yards. -Interceptions work pretty intuitively: when a player on the defense catches a pass that was meant for a player on the offense, the player that caught the ball has a free chance to run as far up the field as he can until he gets tackled, then the teams switch sides at whatever line the player went down at. -Fumbles work identically to interceptions, but instead of catching a pass, it’s when an offensive player drops the ball and a defensive player picks it up off the ground. -When the ball is kicked across the field after a post-touchdown turnover, if the ball lands in the opposite endzone, that’s called a “touchback,” and the first line of scrimmage will be 20 yards from the endzone. -If the defense pushes the offense far enough back so the ball is down in the endzone to the offense’s backside, that’s called a “Safety” and the defense gains two points. That’s about all I can think of, anything outside of these rules is going to be some technicality in the rule book and is rarely seen. If you can understand this explanation, you can understand a game of American football. If you’re watching it on a TV, there’s probably gonna be someone in the room who can answer any questions I didn’t answer in this comment. The NFL season generally starts around late August to September and ends around Early February with the Super Bowl. I hope to see everyone there cheering on their favorite team 🏈🏈🏈

me watching this cuz i wanted to join the football team in highschool 😭

Thank you

i thought the game was more complicated because of the numbers on the field. i thought those numbers meant something more than measurements lol

Thanks for the video. I’ll still do my cycling.

thank u so much

I just want to mention one additional way to score points that is not explained in the video. A safety is when an offensive player is either tackled in the opponent's endzone or runs out the back of the endzone. The result is that an opposing team is rewarded two points and a kickoff will follow. I'm a huge football fan and even I'm learning new things, like if you score a safety on a PAT then it counts for 1 point instead of 2.

Best explanation for a beginner

This helps a lot

thanks i am currently joining the middle school football team ! this was very helpful

Never understood this weird sport i keep seeing in american movies, but it looks fun