Football is a full contact sport that millions of fans watch every season, although 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 are more like gladiators fighting for blood in the arena for the enjoyment of their fans. The sport has changed dramatically over the years to become an event like no other, from recruiting fans to implementing new rules and regulations to keep players safe. The ancestors of football are considered to be rugby and soccer, with rugby being the most dominant aspect of the game. Football originated on November 6, 1869, when teams from Rutgers and Princeton universities met for the first game of intercollegiate football. At this time the game still resembled rugby and was more of an organized brawl than a sport. Then, in 1873, representatives from Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton and Yale universities met in New York to create the first collegiate league for the sport. They eventually created the Intercollegiate Football Association (IFA). Over the next decade, some colleges decided to ban the brutal sport due to all the injuries its players suffered. “Nearly 180 players were seriously injured and eighteen deaths were reported during the brutal mass games that had become common practice” (A Brief History of Gaming). With this staggering number of injuries and deaths, the game was on the verge of extinction. 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 from the mass plays that teams previously used. After gaining popularity in