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Additionally, the official term of the game was “association football.” It was founded by the Football Association back in the year 1863. And they allowed the game of “soccer” to be called “football” as the game required the players to play using their feet. For that reason, you ca...
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For whatever reason, the namesoccerstuck for association football andfootballfor the gridiron sport. In fact, the governing body for soccer in the US was called the United States Soccer Football Association until 1974. How many football fans know the origins of the terms used in the American sp...
Why is it called a teddy bear? Gifted Animal: Children are inundated with a multitude of different toys. However, one toy has stood the test of time, the teddy bear. Many children are gifted this type of stuffed animal at some point in his or her life. ...
Legendary Bears halfbackGale Sayerswas a force of nature on the gridiron in the mid-1960s, but it was after his retirement that he made his real money as an entrepreneur. In 1984, he formed a company called Crest Computer Supply Co. and built it into a successful enterprise. Later rename...
That secret desire manifested itself in different ways. While I’ve loved football since I was a little kid, I soon became obsessed with personal success on the gridiron--the key, I figured, to social acceptance and the solution to my age problem. I had grown up obsessively tracking my Ne...
While it is true that the NCAA doesn’t award national championships in what was once called Division I college football, that is the problem. Since 1926 there have been many entities, often called “selectors” that name national champions (both contemporaneously and retroactively), and in many...
No matter the team you root for, watching football on Thanksgiving is a Turkey Day tradition. Although there are plenty of Thanksgiving myths, these football games do go all the way back to a few years right after Abraham Lincoln declared the national holiday. In 1876, Yale and P...
Kansas City fans have one claim to fame no others can match, at the smoker or on the gridiron. It's the undisputed chiefmaker among all of America's regional barbecue hotbeds. HERE ARE 5 THINGS EVERY KANSAS CITY CHIEFS FAN SHOULD OWN IN TIME FOR SUPER BOWL SUNDAY The Kansas ...