http://www.epturkeytrot.org/index.html

http://www.caprievents.com/turkey/?q=index.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/2009/11/24/2009-11-24_cincinnati_bengals_wr_chad_ochocinco_posts_mockup_packaging_for_ocho_cinco_condo.html

http://www.twincities.com/dakota/ci_13837388?nclick_check=1

Each team has an offensive unit and a defensive unit. The offense and defense each has eleven players. The offense tries to move the ball down the field and score points. They try to get a touchdown or field goal.

Touchdown!

 A touchdown is a score.  It’s worth six points.

Endzone

 The end zone is the area at the edge of the field beyond the goal line. There’s an end zone on each side of the field, end-capped by a goalpost. The end zone is where all scores happen.

If a team can’t make it all the way to the opposite end zone for a touchdown, the next best thing is to kick the ball down the field and through the “uprights” (the vertical posts of the goalpost) located there for a three-point field goal. A field goal attempt can be the most exciting play of the game — many games have ended with a field goal attempt in the final second.

Yardage

The playing field is 120 yards long, but 20 of those yards are in the end zone. The other 100 are marked in 10 yard increments, starting with 50 in the center and counting down toward each end zone.

The game doesn’t start at the center of the field, though — only the coin toss does. The winner of that pregame coin toss typically chooses to be the “receiving” team — meaning that the opposing team will kick the ball as far down the field as they can, and the receiving team will try to run it back for better field position (i.e., getting closer to the end zone in front of them so that they’re in position to score).

Then it’s 1st and 10 for the offense.

Downs

Each team gets four chances (or “downs”) to move the ball 10 yards. So on the first play, they are on the first down and have 10 yards to go (1st and 10). If they move the ball down the field 10 yards (or more), they get a new first down, and it’s 1st and 10 again. But if they don’t reach their goal on the first try, it’s 2nd down, with however many yards remain to reach that first 10 yard goal.

Once again, if they reach their 10 yard goal, the tally resets with a first down, and the play “series” continues with the team getting four more chances to move the ball down the field and score. Otherwise, the jig is up on the fourth down.

Markers

Markers on the sidelines keep track of the downs and the yardage for you. (See picture of markers above).

-Alex Rodriguez, Yankees third baseman.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/gameon/2009/11/erin-andrews-stalker-trailed-her-to-columbus.html

Alexis Palisson.  Rugby player for the CA Brive team  in France.

http://www.cabrive-rugby.com/fiche_joueur.php?id=4349&v_lang=EN

One employee blamed geography.

ESPN brass are “not really against work relationships,” he explained, “because [the headquarters is] so in the middle of nowhere.”

http://deadspin.com/5409393/horndog-hero-david-berson-rumored-leaving-espn-kissing-suzy-update?skyline=true&s=x

A: The OSU fan he’s 18.