100 years ago yesterday, one of the first college bowls took place in Los Angeles.
American Football
American football (known as football or gridiron in North America) is a sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at either end (similar to soccer).
The most popular American football league is the National Football League (NFL). College football is also very popular in the US.
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TIL: Hunter actor Fred Dryer is the only NFL player to have scored two safeties in one game. Here’s footage of him doing it (the match in question was the LA Rams vs. the Green Bay Packers in Game 6 of the 1973 season).
The Baltimore Ravens beating the Houston Texans by 25-9 was the first time that scoreline had been seen in the NFL. John D. Cook looked at all possible pairs of scores and all the actual pairs of scores. Interesting maths!
Chartball: a place for sports data nerds to enjoy some data viz
Everyone loves a sports poster, right?
Resurrecting defunct NFL franchise uniforms
Bringing it back to the olden days of gridiron.
Denver Broncos to sell for $4.65 billion; Homer Simpson is not the buyer
‘It’s not the Dallas Cowboys but it’s a start.’
Jake Simmons played every version of Madden NFL to see if it improved each year
That’s a lot a football!
Alex Donaldson on Retro Bowl as a Super Bowl gaming appetiser
Before the national anthem and the wings comes Retro Bowl on the Nintendo Switch to whet your Super Bowl appetite.
We're getting a Super Bowl/Winter Olympics eclipse!
When two sporting worlds collide.
Uni Watch asks: what will the Rams and the Bengals wear for Super Bowl LVI?
What you gonna wear now? Bobby, I don’t know but what’s it ever I wear Its got to be funky!
Is that a rabbit on your helmet?
Maybe they should change their name to the Cleveland Bunnies.
The Ringer's favourite sporting moments of 2021
The panDemiLovato couldn’t stop these sporting moments from 2021.
Tracking your sports team the hard way
Alexa, I know you know the score but I’m gonna tell you anyway.
A data viz showing positive and negative regression of NFL teams after a year
The NFL tries to maintain structural balances with its teams and that shows in this data viz of performance regression.
What's in a sports shirt number?
That which we call a position by any other number would smell as sweet.