There is no doubt that football is widely known, at least to most parts of the world. It may not be so familiar to some nationalities, but at least they have an idea on what a football ball looks like and can identify a football player, if he wears his proper gear and uniform.

But to the rest of the world where football has been a part of almost everyone’s life, specifically to the Americans, football- including its origins, its different forms, how it is being played, and even the intensity attached to it, these are all common to them.

Football is indeed a competitive and physical game. And anyone who wishes to play football must have the height and body, the agility and the stamina to be able to stay in the game.

Injuries are unavoidable; and it is very common to many sports like basketball, hockey, etc.; and it is even more common and expected whenever the game of football is being played. As the game includes not just passing and running, but as well as hitting, clashing, and stumbling upon each other.

But not only were the football players of this new generation are experiencing those kinds of incidents. Because way back the 1800s, injuries, may it be minor or major ones, have been already a part of the football’s humble beginnings.

Being played in different colleges in selected parts of America, frequent incidents of injuries have been reported. Most students from different schools, those who were particularly playing college football, had been suffering from serious injuries, a result on how vicious the sport was being played.

As the game became one of the intercollegiate sports, the incident even more increased, which is later on reported to President Roosevelt. The president, on the other hand, threatened to shut down the game if adjustments will not be made in order to lessen those accidents reported.

And so, meetings among schools are organized, and as a result of the continuous move, the NCAA or the National Collegiate Athletic Association, was formed. The association aimed to revolutionize the rules of the game so as to avoid those injuries and fatalities reported.

Years have passed until professional football was introduced during the late 19th century. Through the NFL (National Football League), football has become a profession and career to many chaps in the United States.

Up to this very moment, football has been even more renowned and recognized as one of the most popular sports in the world, and is continuously creating its own special spot in the history of sports.