Football is a full contact sport that millions of fans watch every season even though it is not yet a global sport. Baseball may be America's pastime, but football is America's obsession. It is played on a field but the athletes look more like gladiators fighting for blood in the arena for the entertainment of their fans. The sport has changed dramatically over the years in an event unlike any other, from gaining fans to implementing new rules and regulations to ensure player safety. The ancestors of football are considered to be rugby and soccer, with rugby being the dominant aspect of the game. The game of football was born on November 6, 1869, when teams from Rutgers and Princeton universities met for the first intercollegiate football game. At that time the game still resembled rugby and was more of an organized fight than a sport. Then, in 1873, representatives from Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, and Yale universities met in New York City to create the first collegiate league for the sport. They eventually founded the Intercollegiate Football Association (IFA). Over the next decade, some universities decided to ban this brutal sport due to all the injuries suffered by its players. “Nearly 180 players had sustained serious injuries and eighteen deaths had been reported as a result of the brutal mob performances that had become common practice” (A Brief History of the Game). With this staggering number of injuries and deaths, the game was nearing its end. So in 1905, President Roosevelt asked Harvard, Princeton, and Yale to save the sport. After several meetings, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA, was established as the governing group for college football. They redesigned the game and added many new rules, such as forward passes, to reduce the number of injuries due to the mass plays used by teams. After gaining popularity in