After reading your incredible fic I wanted to get into NFL world but I have no idea where to start 🥲 Do you have any suggestions for beginners ? It would be great ❤️
OH MY GOD YES. I'm vibrating in excitement over this. Okay so the easiest way to start is probably with game break down and rules, some good resources:
The NFL Video Rulebook explains NFL rules with video examples.
Beginner’s Guide to Football LEARNING NFL RULES If you are a football beginner, one of your biggest obstacles to achieving full enjoyment of
But the league has been around for a long time (the 20s). The Super Bowl league has been since 1967. There's a lot of history there, but it's okay! There's two conferences: AFC (American Football Conference) and NFC (National Football Conference) (fun fact- the Chiefs which are my beloved team were the first AFC team. Our founder Lamar Hunt started that conference and the AFC Championship trophy is called the Lamar Hunt trophy. His son is still our owner today- Clark Hunt).
The Super Bowl is played between the winner of each conference.
There's 17 games a season (Sep to Feb is Super Bowl) with one bye week. Each Conference has 4 divisions.
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I could go on and on and on, but maybe some hype videos are also the best place to start? There's a ton on youtube, but there's also a show on Netflix right now called Quarterback that is SO good (one of the people it follows is my QB Mahomes then Kirk Cousins for the Vikings and Marcus Mariota for the Falcons. Three VERY different players who are all QBs). The Chiefs also have their own documentary series on youtube called The Franchise that follows the team through the season which is cool to watch. HBO does a show called Hard Knocks that follows a diff team each year too.
The Franchise Super Bowl Ep:
Most recent super bowl highlights (such a good one, you'll have to watch on youtube though)
NFL Pump UP Video
Craziest moments last season:
Sorry that was an essay. Hit up my messages or ask box any time and I'm happy to go into any more detail, or with any questions!! I was born & raised a massive football fan so I'm always around if you have questions. I'd say to start:
Pick a fave team. Whether it be a city you like, colors, mascot, player, the Giants cuz of Jake ;), whatever. Follow your heart.
Learn that team's history and traditions (I'm super biased so if you go with the KC Chiefs well...I'm around and can blab about it all day)
The rest you'll get as you go!
Youtube has tons of cool videos, game recaps, etc. They do mic'ed up for each game too and behind the scenes stuff. It's like a game of chess, truly, and there's so many amazing moments and games with comebacks, emotion, heart. It can be the most amazing thing if you get into it (like any sport.) The last super bowl was between the Kelce Brothers (who have a podcast called New Heights that's on youtube, also good) and that was such a cool moment. Seeing your team win a crazy comeback or a Super Bowl....there's nothing like it.
