After 18 college football players were killed during games in 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt personally intervened and demanded that the rules of the game be reformed to make the game safer. One of the changes was to make the forward pass a legal play
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What is considered to be the first American football game was played on November 6, 1869 between Rutgers and Princeton, two college teams
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The quarterback is allowed to drop kick the ball by bouncing the ball off the ground and kicking it downfield
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The huddle was first used in the 1890s by quarterback Paul Hubbard who was deaf
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The longest attempted field goal in pro football history was by Sebastian Janikowski on September 28, 2008. He missed
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According to a 2009 Sports Illustrated article, 78% of NFL players are either bankrupt or are under financial stress within two years of retirement
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Deion Sanders is the only person in sports history to score an NFL touchdown and hit an MLB home run in the same week
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