What's up dudes? so what are we discussing today? Football! Ooh, crazy! (CLIP: "It's an explosive show. Are you ready for some football!?) We're here on a
football field, so we can discuss the rules of football. if you didn't watch
the first video you'll see a link up here. New vocab.. Aft–... there's gonna... I can't
speak! so here is today's vocabulary
alright. there's a lot of it, but it's very important if you want to understand
the game of American football. my information from today comes from this
really fun really entertaining video. it's only about a minute and a half long,
and almost all of the vocabulary I use in today's lesson comes from this video.
it's a native level video. it's for native speakers. so it's going to be
challenging and you probably won't understand everything, and that's the
process of reaching fluency. fluency does not happen like this.
fluency is a process and we're gonna do it together so come on after this video
you will have all the vocabulary needed to understand the main points of this
video. so definitely watch it! (CLIP: "Yes you can! Yes you can! So just do it!")
Alright, we got some wind today guys, so I'm sorry if the sound quality is not as
good as usual. I'm trying I'm trying to protect the sound quality by blocking
the wind, but it's it's not working. and of course if you like this channel and
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and of course when all of our videos are ready. but you guys it's time for a
serious question: are you ready for some football!? (CLIP: "Here come the hits, the bangs, the blocks and the spikes. It's Monday night baby, yeah!")
we gotta start with the basics .where do you play football
what do you play it on? you play it on a field like this!
this is a football field. okay so it's a high school football field. I don't know
if it's regulation size, but you get the idea, a football field! a football field
is a hundred yards long that's about ninety one and a half
meters in distance. if you're keeping score that's about the same size as a
soccer field. (I forgot the photos haha) remember in the US this is a football and this is a soccer ball
remember her this will help you avoid a lot of confusion when you travel here.
The game is played on this field with eleven players on each team.
each team actually has 53 players in total, but you can only have eleven of
your players on the field at one time. if you have too many or too few you get a
penalty. basically a punishment for not obeying the rules of the game. and come
on you don't want to get punished when you're playing football. penalties are
not fun. run! run from the wind! so you can only have 11 of your players on the
field at a time, but these eleven players make up your entire squad and your total
squad has 53 players. so think of it this way: you have an entire squad of 53
players, and they are divided into three separate teams. one two three. some of
these players will go on the offense, they are offensive players. If you didn't
guess these are the players on your team who try to score the points. another part
of the team goes on the defense, these are your defensive players. if you're a
good guesser you know that they play defense. they defend
your end zone, so that the other team cannot come and score. we'll talk about
scoring in just one minute. and then finally we have special teams. I'm
willing to bet that even casual viewers of American football don't know what
special teams does exactly. so if you learn this ,you're really doing good.
'Cause here's the thing, special teams is not offense or defense. they do something
unique. that's why we say that they're special, huh? some of the special plays
they're involved with are kickoffs, that's when you kick the ball to start a
game or to restart the game after one of the teams has scored. and they're also
involved with punts, extra points, and field goals. and we'll talk about those
in two minutes. okay let's review: let's review! this wind is killing me! the offense
tries to score against the other team's defense, the defense wants to prevent the
other team's offense from scoring. and for special teams, basically just remember
that they are involved with plays where you are going to kick the ball. like I
said, a punt, kickoff, extra point, and field goal. that's special teams. okay so
now you know that there is a squad divided into separate teams, and they
each have their own responsibility. but what is the aim of the game? you see, you
try to move the ball from one side all the way to the other side and score. this
is your end zone, that's their end zone. then you want to score there and not let
them score here. if you throw or run the ball into their end zone, you get six
points! I would show you six, but I only have one hand free right now.
after you score a touchdown, that's what it's called when you score those six
points, you get a chance for an extra point. so the extra point is when I stand
here, they're defending, I run up and I kick the ball and hopefully it goes
through there. and I get an extra point! Woohoo! now you know that we move the ball down
the field, but how do we move it? through a series of plays, and this series of
plays is called downs. notice how we move the ball down the
field, when we say down we mean across. each of these is called a down because
it's an attempt to move down the field. the offense is the one that moves the
ball down the field. and for each series of plays, and when they have the ball
they are given four downs, or four attempts, to move ten yards. I know it's
difficult to see, but can you make out, can you see, these lines? that is ten
yards. so you have four attempts to move ten yards.
(forgot what I was talking about haha)
and each time you move down, you're getting closer to scoring in that end
zone right there! and each time you get the ten yard,s that's called getting a
first down. because now you have four more tries to get to the end zone. during
each down it's the quarterback who starts the play. he can decide to throw
the ball to a receiver for a pass, a catch. or he can hand the ball off, and
then a running back, or a rusher, will take it and try to move down the field
to the end zone. so to summarize again: you get four
attempts, or downs, to move the ball ten yards. you can pass it or you can hand it
to a rusher, and he will try to run the ball. and if the defense prevents you, if
they defend well and they don't allow you to get that ten yards, then you have
different choices. now you don't want to give them the ball close to the end zone
they're trying to score in. so you can punt the ball. all you do is kick the
ball as far as possible. Because then their offense has to make a lot more downs
this way. remember it's difficult to make downs
with the defense playing against you. but if your offense is pretty close to the
uprights, you can try to make a field goal. a field goal is just like the extra
point I showed you, however a field goal can be much farther away from the
uprights than an extra point. an extra point is always in the same spot, a field
goal can be anywhere. and if you make the field goal, you get three points. so to
review if the defense stops you and it's fourth down
you can punt the ball, just kick it far away to try to make it difficult for
them to score, or if you're close enough you can try to make a field goal where
you again kick the ball, and try to make the three points by making the ball go
through the uprights. they're called up rights because they're straight up.
how long is one game? well it's divided into four 15-minute quarters. and of
course all of the commercials you get to watch in between. Woohoo. and then when
the time is up the team with the most points wins. so that's for one game but
every team plays 16 games during the regular season. and your record is how
well you play it, how many games you won, lost, or tied. the league, the NFL, is
divided into regional conferences. this means that teams are divided based
on their geography, where in the United States they are located, the winner from
each of the conference's will then enter the playoffs. so we had the regular
season and now we have the playoffs. and the playoffs basically start a new
competition, but it's knockout. meaning you can't lose and continue, you have to
win every game from this point on. and so you play the other conference winners
until you get to the end of the playoffs, which is the Super Bowl!
Choo choo! Superbowl! man, that was a lot of rules, and I had to make it as simple
as possible, so if you have any questions I'm sure you do – put them down here in
the comments. don't worry about your grammar, that's why I'm here to help you
correct it! and if you want to watch part 3 where we talk about football
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