Union Civil War general Phillip Sheridan is credited with saying, “If I owned Texas and hell, I’d rent Texas and live in hell.” A modern day equivalent of that could be, “If I owned an NFL football team and was elected President of the United States, I’d resign immediately and go back to work on my football team.” Football is the biggest sport in America today. The most valuable of the 32 National Football League (NFL) teams has been valued at over $3 billion dollars. 46 of the 50 most watched sporting events on television in 2013 were football games and in recent years, around 75% of all American televisions have been tuned to football for the Super Bowl. It often seems like no matter where you turn, someone is talking about football.
For people who don’t understand or enjoy football, the experience of living in today’s football obsessed world can be, in turns, annoying, frustrating, confusing, or curiously compelling. As a football fan and the founder of Dear Sports Fan, my goal is to make football understandable so that you have an ease in football-laden situations that you didn’t have before. My goal isn’t to convert you into a football fan, but if you find that happening, I’ll be the first to welcome you into the fold.
If you want to learn the basics of football in time for this year’s Super Bowl, sign up for our Football 101 course. It’s the easiest way to learn football, and I promise that by the time you’re through, you’ll be able to impress the football fan in your life with your newfound knowledge.
In this free course, you’ll learn all about why people like football, what down and distance are, how football scoring works, the inside scoop on fantasy football and football betting, how to decipher TV scoreboard graphics, and finally my favorite way to start having fun while watching football. At the end of the course you will get a fully unaccredited diploma of graduation, which you can hang on your wall with pride. If you enjoy the course, (and I hope you do!), I’d be thrilled to have you as a regular subscriber to our daily or weekly digests and for Football 201, coming soon!
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