“Baseball may be America’s pastime, but football is America’s passion,” Howie Long, Pro Football Hall of Famer and sports announcer, once said.
As football season comes to an end and Super Bowl LVIII approaches, I’ve decided to dive into the history and passion behind the most popular sport in America. Information and data for this article was taken from statisticsanddata. org, Early History of American Football, America’s Greatest Game, ESPN, More Than Ten Greatest Coaches in the History of the Game, and the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
The crack of pads hitting, the play calls, the electric feel of a stadium surrounded by thousands of cheering fans.
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