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The document discusses reasons why football is not more popular internationally. It argues that football lacks tradition in other countries and safety concerns over injuries deter its growth abroad. Football first began in the United States in the 19th century and becoming ingrained as a national sport, but never spread or was adopted traditionally elsewhere. Continued efforts to improve safety through rule changes have not fully overcome fears about the physical risks of playing the game.
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- 1. Why Football isn’t popular to the rest of the world? • David • March 1, 2013 • Orcutt Academy High School • Frosh Core
- 2. Why football isn’t popular to rest of the world • There are many reasons that football isn’t popular in America. The top reasons why are that it isn’t a traditional sport to the rest of the world and too many injuries happen.
- 3. MY Background Info • I learned football is most popular sport in america played outside the U.S. once every year. Every games outside the U.S. has sold out but don’t understand why football isn’t popular in Europe or other countries. The big reasons I learned are safety and has no tradition in Europe.
- 4. History of football • Football has been a sport since 1869 where Rutgers and Princetown college first played. The NFL would be created in 1920 by Jim Thorpe. It has been an American sport ever since then. A lot of changes with uniforms and rules have happened during this span.
- 5. Football Safety • Safety has been a big thing in football since the beginning. New rules in football have been making football a better sport for people to play. Rules have made so less people can get concussions and broken legs.
- 6. Football Safety • Roger Godell commissioner of NFL has made rules to not hit helmet contact or tackle below the knee because to many players have ended up with concussions and leg injuries.
- 7. Football Safety • In other countries they fear the players safety . Safety in football has cause lot of injuries including a death. In the US we been trying to produce a another football league in Europe or Asia but has been a problem cause of safety issue.
- 8. Sport Traditions • In America sports like baseball, basketball and football are traditional sports. In other countries soccer and basketball have more tradition than football. To show proof why football isn’t traditional I will show you in these next few slides.
- 9. Do you think other countries should have a football legaue. Do you think other countries should have a football league 29% Yes 71% No Data obtained by self generated survey .
- 10. Why football isn’t a tradition in other countries. • First reason football isn’t traditional in other countries cause football didn’t start there. It started in America and grew into the most popular sport in America.
- 11. Why football isn’t a tradition in other countries. Final statements for why football isn't popular in other countries is that football soccer, and rugby are more traditional and are more fun to watch for other countries. NO tradition makes football hard to become popular in Australia or Europe.
- 12. Is Football your favorite sport Data obtained by self generated survey . Series 1 60 50 40 30 Series 1 20 10 0 YES NO
- 13. My Conclusion • All in all football is one America’s favorite sport but in every else in the world football looks barbaric and has no tradition
- 14. My final statement • I hope my PowerPoint showed why sports like baseball or soccer are much more popular in countries like Europe. I think there are many other reasons football isn’t popular in America but those are the main reasons I could find.
- 15. Works Cited • Hauser, Mark. "will-american-football-ever-be-popular-in- the-rest-of-the-world." 17 Feburary 2009. Bleacherreport.com. 30 January 2013 <http://bleacherreport.com/articles/125542-will-american- football-ever-be-popular-in-the-rest-of-the-world>. • Olivia, S.M. "Should American Football be in the Olympics." 6 August 2012. Saturdaydownsouth.com. 30 January 2013 <http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/2012/american- football-olympic-sport/>. • http://www.forbes.com/sites/bobbymcmahon/2012/10/28 /a-dozen-reasons-why-the-nfl-will-never-make-it-outside- of-the-usa/
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