There is no doubt that football is widely known, at least to most parts of the world. It may not be so familiar to some nationalities, but at least they have an idea on what a football ball looks like and can identify a football player, if he wears his proper gear and uniform.

But to most people like the Americans, where football is so familiar to everyone, every little detail about the sport cannot be a mystery. And one truth about football, which is obviously known to everyone, is the roughness of the sport.

Football, may it be college football, pro football, or any form of it, is indeed a game of power and strength. A football player should be of a great shape, and needs to be big and strong enough in order to sustain the action of the game.

Injuries are unavoidable; and it is very common to many sports like basketball, hockey, etc.; and it is even more common and expected whenever the game of football is being played. As the game includes not just passing and running, but as well as hitting, clashing, and stumbling upon each other.

In the NFL, you may heard of players who were unable to play for the whole season because they are badly injured; of course, we are used to hearing those kinds of news. But did you know that as early as the 19th century, certain accidents like these already happens?…when football is just about to mark its spot in the world history.

On the mid 1800s, when football has been first introduced in the UK and beginning to spread in certain parts of the US, football cannot be played without brutality being involved. And as football has been played as an intercollegiate sport, many incidents of injuries had been reported.

Those disturbing news resulted to eliminating football from the rest of intercollegiate games. That move alarmed President Theodore Roosevelt. The president, as a result, gathered the concerned units to do something to save the game from totally shutting down.

And so, meetings among schools are organized, and as a result of the continuous move, the NCAA or the National Collegiate Athletic Association, was formed. The association aimed to revolutionize the rules of the game so as to avoid those injuries and fatalities reported.

Later on, the NFL, or the National Football League was formulated, which introduced professional football. And through the league, football has been more recognized and given more attention, not only to the US, but also to other parts of the world.

Nowadays, football is already a world-wide sport, even considered as the most watched sports event of all times. And as it continuously soars to be the number 1 sports in America, it will also continue to influence every people’s life, in different aspects of it, in many different ways.