How Has Football Changed Over The Years

Football over the Years Everything changes over time, sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly, and others you can’t really tell it has changed at all but in football you can easily tell the changes it has been through over the years. While all sports have changed over the years football seems to have changed the most dramatically from rules, equipment, stadium and even in the way we watch football today. When American football was born it was an all-white sport played with hardly no equipment for protection except for a leather helmet to protect your head, the game was played on hard dirt and as you can expect, injuries were constant and some deaths even occurred from the brutal hits and the missing component of protection equipment. As you can
But when we go to the games the see what else technology can do to help us, and they help us building modern stadiums capable of holding thousands and thousands of people and able to have huge televisions bigger than houses everywhere so even people in the nosebleed section can see what’s going on in the game. As you know these stadiums come as a price a very expensive one and even though the changes in stadiums make football more available to people and able to hold more people to see the game, owners decide to up the price in everything so as the stadiums get more expensive to build, everything else gets more expensive from the tickets and food to the five dollar or more water you buy at the game and as people line up to the concession stands they see the prices and even if things are overpriced they still pay but inside the fans are shaking their heads at the prices and as Dan Zirin says “Sports fans are fed up”. Fans are fed up because while there to support their favorite team their wallets are getting smaller and smaller from the tickets they buy and the food plus merchandise is also expensive while some people want to wear their favorite players jersey, they can if they are willing to pay eighty to one hundred dollars for a simple jersey with the players name on it. But I and the fans don’t see the prices anytime soon since people are willing to pay for it even if it is