| Why doesn't anyone outside the United States | | | | way. Not to do that is going to cause you a |
| understand the NFL or the game of American | | | | penalty. This player has to stay in a three point |
| football? | | | | stance, this one does not have to. Why? It's |
| Make no mistake, the game of football is | | | | because of the rules. |
| America's game. It is not America's pastime, that | | | | How come the big guy with the number 76 on his |
| is baseball. The game of football is America's | | | | chest can't go downfield on this kind of passing |
| passion. So, what this means is that the game of | | | | play, but on the next one called a screen he can? |
| football is THE sport of the United States of | | | | Well, it's the rules of the game. |
| America. It is the sport we have that we love so | | | | Why does the guy who scored a touchdown on |
| much, and no other country does. No other | | | | the field slammed the ball to the field after he |
| country can claim football to be their national | | | | scored? He looks upset. No, that really means he |
| sport as we have. | | | | is excited that he got to score, he's really not |
| It's complicated. Football is played on a field that is | | | | mad at all. |
| one hundred yards long. These are English units. | | | | There are so many players on the field at one |
| Every other country in the world measures fields | | | | time. What are they all doing out there when the |
| of play in meters. The metric system. We seem | | | | ball is snapped, because it just looks like a big |
| not to abide by the measuring rules like the rest | | | | confused mess out there. Each person has a |
| of the world. Are we stubborn in our ways? Yes. | | | | responsibility with certain rules applying to each |
| What else makes this game so complicated that | | | | player. |
| the rest of the world does not understand it? | | | | To the rest of the world, this looks like a big |
| Quite simply, the rules. The rules of football could | | | | confusing mess. It's not at all simple compared to |
| confuse a mathematician. In a way, the rules of | | | | the world sport of soccer. |
| American football could be equated to tax laws, | | | | Truly, the reason why no one outside the United |
| meaning that certain infractions can be negated or | | | | States understands the NFL is the rules. We as a |
| accepted because of special circumstances. You | | | | country, call this game our passion, and we'd like |
| have to line up this way, you have to line up that | | | | to keep it that way. |
