National Football Field Analysis
American football is a very popular sport in the United States of America. Some may call it “the most popular spectator sport in the United States, attracting a total attendance of over 40 million and watched bay many more millions on television each year” (“Football”, 2016). American football, or sometimes called gridiron football, is played, coached, analyzed, watched, and administered by hundreds of millions of people in the world today. Some games alone may have “played before crowds of up to 100,000 in university owned stadiums” (“Football”, 2016). A census of all football game’s attendance alone from 1990 to 2009 shows that in 2009 alone 113,328,000 people watched the sport of American football being played at a stadium (Meyer, 2012).
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A problem emerged in the National Football League when a punter punted a football that “hanged” in the air a little too long. A punt is when a punter of the football team kicks the football to the other team on fourth down to give the team a good field position (Oriard, 2016). On November 13, 1977, Oakland Raiders’ punter Ray Guy punted the football numerous times and the football were just “ hanging” in the air a little too long (Wilkening, 2013). The “hang time” on the punts prompted the National Football League to investigate if the footballs were filled with helium. They experimented with football filled with helium and air to see which one goes farther and the results concluded that helium and air go the same distance (Wikening, 2013). This meant Ray Guy was kicking regular footballs. Since then similar research has been done with the helium football problem. Ohio State University and Carnegie Melon University concluded that “there is not much difference in the results for the two footballs” (“Helium football story”, n.d.). The Mythbusters also experimented with the helium football problem. The results that they collected concluded that the air-filled football flew farther than the helium-filled football (“Football Filled With Helium Will Fly Farther”, 2006). The research in this study does similar experiments as the ones stated above but will provide new
A problem emerged in the National Football League when a punter punted a football that “hanged” in the air a little too long. A punt is when a punter of the football team kicks the football to the other team on fourth down to give the team a good field position (Oriard, 2016). On November 13, 1977, Oakland Raiders’ punter Ray Guy punted the football numerous times and the football were just “ hanging” in the air a little too long (Wilkening, 2013). The “hang time” on the punts prompted the National Football League to investigate if the footballs were filled with helium. They experimented with football filled with helium and air to see which one goes farther and the results concluded that helium and air go the same distance (Wikening, 2013). This meant Ray Guy was kicking regular footballs. Since then similar research has been done with the helium football problem. Ohio State University and Carnegie Melon University concluded that “there is not much difference in the results for the two footballs” (“Helium football story”, n.d.). The Mythbusters also experimented with the helium football problem. The results that they collected concluded that the air-filled football flew farther than the helium-filled football (“Football Filled With Helium Will Fly Farther”, 2006). The research in this study does similar experiments as the ones stated above but will provide new