Tuesday, February 3, 2015

     It is Sunday afternoon and 22 million people are watching Sunday Night Football on NBC, whether it's a favorite team or divisional rivals playing under the lights, football is the biggest sport in America. Football has evolved into one of the biggest sport in America and so has its way of playing the sport as technology keeps evolving.
    In August, 20, 1920 four Ohio teams meet in Canton to form a new professional football team called the American Professional Football League but was later renamed the National Football League (NFL). In September 17, 1920 the region of the Great Lakes joined the NFL. In 1936 the first ever NFL draft took place. Players were drafted from the collegiate level to the NFL. In 1939 the first televised game was broadcasted on NBC. The game was between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Eagles. The NFL's Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs to win the first Super Bowl on January 15, 1967.
     Football is now on of the biggest sport with the Super Bowl 49 match up against the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks broke the most watch program in TV history. Data has shown that each year the number of NFL games being watch is increasing. Now that people are able to stream online games from their phones, tablet, and laptops it is much easier to keep up with the latest games. The future of the NFL is going to be so much different from how we see it today. NFL.com released a videos segments called NFL 2020 where it looks into the future of how the NFL could look like in the future.

1 comment:

  1. you were repetitive when talking about that football is the biggest sport in america

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