No Extra Points
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The document traces the evolution of football from ancient games played by Native Americans and Mayans that involved violence or death for poor performance, to the modern game developed in the late 19th/early 20th century influenced by Teddy Roosevelt who felt it was better for boys to play football than to not participate. The summary also references iconic football players and games from the 1990s-2010s that helped grow the popularity and fan experience of the sport in America.
![Teddy Roosevelt
told his son it
was better to
die playing
football than
to be a punk
[sn]itch
They commemorated the teddy
bear after such a man](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/noextrapoints-160131175757/85/No-Extra-Points-5-320.jpg)
No Extra Points
- 2. The Evolution Of Football
- 3. I figured out why the Mayans calculated the date of the end of the world All of a sudden football doesn’t seem so violent They had this thing called the Mayan Ballgame that they cut your head off if you played like a little turd
- 4. The Native Americans played with spears In 5th grade Social Studies class I did this project on the Native Americans and my baller teacher reacted very strongly to it, which means you can put faith in the things I say You’re telling me that the violence embedded in our modern American culture does not stem from the violent ways of the original Americans?!
- 5. Teddy Roosevelt told his son it was better to die playing football than to be a punk [sn]itch They commemorated the teddy bear after such a man
- 6. ’98 was the year
- 7. Rex Grossman? A German in Germany got really excited when the conversation turned to the ’07 Super Bowl (somehow), but when I mentioned Rex Grossman, he got confused.
- 8. I remember late nights playing Madden in Ann Arbor ▪ Randy Moss in real life was the only player to play like a Madden character ▪ MichaelVick in the game was ridiculous
- 9. The Richard Sherman effect
- 10. Yet another football player gets shot outside a strip/night club And they say rappers are the scum of society, pfff!
- 11. Still though – None of that matters for the final gameday experience