I'll try to give you a rudimentary explanation, and honestly, I don't know all the rules, I just watched in high school / catch the occasional college game. And the Superbowl, I watch the Superbowl.
Basically, if you have possession, you have four downs to move the ball ten yards. A down can be a tackle, or if you're forced out of bounds. If you move the ball ten yards, you keep possession and have another four downs to move ten yards. Touchdowns are worth six points. If you get a touchdown, your team can either try to kick the ball through the goal posts, which is one point, or go for the conversion, which is worth two points (like a mini-touchdown).
Wiki goes into more depth, but I hope that helped. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football#Rules
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2010-10-03 10:53 pm (UTC)Basically, if you have possession, you have four downs to move the ball ten yards. A down can be a tackle, or if you're forced out of bounds. If you move the ball ten yards, you keep possession and have another four downs to move ten yards. Touchdowns are worth six points. If you get a touchdown, your team can either try to kick the ball through the goal posts, which is one point, or go for the conversion, which is worth two points (like a mini-touchdown).
Wiki goes into more depth, but I hope that helped.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football#Rules