{"id":47,"date":"2020-07-02T08:45:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T08:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogster\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2020-07-02T08:45:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T08:45:56","slug":"how-village-kids-play-football","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogster\/how-village-kids-play-football\/","title":{"rendered":"How Village Kids Play Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However, it wasn&#8217;t until the 1880s that a great rugby player from Yale, Walter\u00a0<b>Camp<\/b>, pioneered rules changes that slowly transformed rugby into the new game of American Football.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Seattle Seahawks team was named by fans. A contest was held and 20,365 entries were received. 151 people suggested the name Seahawks, and the name was chosen as the winner by the team owners.<\/li>\n<li>The NFL, first known as the American Professional Football Association, was formed in Canton on Sept. 17, 1920.<\/li>\n<li>The cheerleaders in the NFL typically make $50-$75 per game.<\/li>\n<li>A football is not made out of pig skin. A cow has only a 1 in 17,420,000 chance of becoming an NFL football that is used in the Super Bowl.<\/li>\n<li>Jersey number 12 was retired for the fans of Seattle, or the 12th man. However, while\u00a0Sam Adkins\u00a0played for Seattle, number 12 was his jersey number.<\/li>\n<li>It wasn\u2019t a requirement for football players to wear a helmet in the NFL until 1943<\/li>\n<li>The winning team in the Super Bowl receives permanent possession of the\u00a0sterling silver, Vince Lombardi trophy. It\u00a0stands 20.75 inches tall, weighs 107.3 ounces, and is valued in excess of $25,000.<\/li>\n<li>Coach Pete Carroll&#8217;s gum of choice: Bubble Yum.<\/li>\n<li>The most pizza is sold on\u00a0Super Bowl Sunday\u00a0than any other day of the year.\u00a0 Psychologists note that some events are socially tied to food categories\u2014Superbowl + pizza, Easter + eggs, etc.<\/li>\n<li>The NFL requires that all stadiums be built facing North and South so that the sun never interferes with a play.<\/li>\n<li>Former Minnesota Vikings kicker Fred Cox invented the Nerf football back in 1972.\u00a0 He still receives royalties for every unit sold.<\/li>\n<li>There are 67,000 seats, 11 elevators and\u00a048 concession areas throughout CenturyLink field.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However, it wasn&#8217;t until the 1880s that a great rugby player from Yale, Walter\u00a0Camp, pioneered rules changes that slowly transformed rugby into the new game of American Football. The Seattle Seahawks team was named by fans. A contest was held and 20,365 entries were received. 151 people suggested the name Seahawks, and the name was chosen as the winner by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/blogster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}