Football

Football will continue to dominate the sports scene for the next month or so, with bowl games for the colleges and playoff games for the professional teams. THEN COMETH THE SUPERBOWL, which ends the football season until spring training in the schools, followed by football camps and exhibition games for the professionals. Before you know it, football will be right back in the spotlight.
High school football dates back to the 1880’s. The first game of intercollegiate football was played by Rutgers and Princeton on November 6,1869. College football grew in popularity during the 20th century. Professional football can be traced back to 1892, with the Allegheny Athletic Association against the Pittsburgh Athletic Club. The first Professional Football championship game was between the Buffalo Prospects and the Canton Bulldogs in 1919.
Through the years, the organization of leagues and the establishment of rules have combined to create what we know today as the National Football League, which represents the American and National Conferences. The champions of the conferences play for world championship in the Super Bowl.
If you get to feeling like you’re getting too serious about football, then listen to Andy Griffith’s comedy routine, “What It Was It Was Football,” which launched his career 50 years ago. He talks about getting lost in a crowd that pushed its way into a place where two big bunches of people were sitting across from each other and in between was a real purty greeen cow pasture. Somebody had marked up the pasture with white lines, and there were convicts running up and down, blowing their whistles at them two bunches of people fighting each other. They seemed to be fightin’ over a funny lookin’ punkin’. And on it goes. I’m sure there are those today who don’t understand the rules of football much better than Andy did. I know that I don’t know what those commentators are talking about sometimes. But, like everyone else, I enjoy it.