Football, explained by the numbers
The rules
nobody can
actually explain.
Short, sourced explainers on how American football really works — the rules, the origins, and the numbers that quietly broke the game. Every claim links to where it came from.
- 1882
- The system of downs
- 160 FT
- Field width, unchanged since 1881
- 6%
- Onside recovery rate
- 50-79
- The numbers that can't catch
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30 explainers
One a day
One football fact
worth repeating.
No scores, no hot takes, no predictions. One sourced thing you did not know, short enough to read standing up.
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