When the NFL resumes play, one of the latest rules changes will be readily apparent from the beginning of the first game of the season. The kickoff will be moved forward from the defending team’s thirty yard line to the thirty-five. As with most rules changes a balance has been struck between providing an entertaining [...]

The answer to the start of gridiron is as debatable as to the question ‘which came first the chicken or the egg’. According to some accounts, the first gridiron game called American football started in Canada at McGill and at Harvard in America around 1869. McGill rules only allowed 11 players of the field from [...]