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Facemasks
Facemasks, designed to protect a players face while they are in the game, are structured differently depending on a player’s position. Many people wonder why some facemasks have two bars, while others have three or more. Quarterbacks in the NFL usually wear helmets that have two bars. Defensive backs and wide receivers also use this design, known as a box cage. Kickers, who very rarely are involved in hits on the field, usually wear helmets that only have two bars. They can also see their target better without too many bars getting in the way and blocking their view. Up until 2004, most punters and kickers wore one-bar facemasks. For safety reasons the NFL decided to ban these. Outside of kickers, most position players, from linebackers to running backs wear facemasks that have four bars laid along the basic “U” shape design. Over the “U” are bars that offer players different forms of protection. Three bars across with a fourth down the middle is perfect for protecting the nose, jaw and mouth and is generally worn by players looking for more protection when hitting and blocking up close. A different helmet facemask, worn by linemen on the defensive and offensive sides of the ball, is the six bar design. It has a “U” bar at the top and protects players against injuries to the mouth and jaw. It offers ultimate protection but can limit vision. It is also called a full mask.

Coffin Corner
A Coffin Kick or Coffin Corner Kick is the most important weapon in a punters arsenal. Punters are key in giving their team a field position advantage after an offense has failed to score any points or get a needed first down on their drive. The best way for a punter to help his team is to pin the other team’s offense deep in their own territory. A Coffin kick is only possible for most punters if they are not too far away from the target. Somewhere on or before the fifty yard line is best. The name comes from that area of the field known as a Coffin Corner located within ten yards of the receiving teams goal. Kicking into the corner in such a way that the ball bounces first inbounds then out, is what every punter is trying to do. The new offense is then forced to start their drive anywhere from the 1-yard line to the 10-yard line. It is a strategy that gives the defense a great chance to stop the opposing team’s offense from really moving the ball up the field. Once the defense stops them they will have to punt from deep within their own territory setting up great field position when their offense retakes the field. This is all thanks to the punters’ first kick into the Coffin Corner.

The First Super Bowl
The first Super Bowl was played on January 15th, 1967. It took place in historic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum not far from the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. It featured the first world championship matchup between an AFL and an NFL team. Legendary Coach Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers defeated the AFL’s Kansas City Chiefs 35-10. Some 61,946 people attended the game live and millions more watched at home as the game was shown by both ABC and CBS television stations. The game was part of the merger between the rival American Football League (AFL) and the National Football League (NFL). That first Super Bowl led to the full merger between the two leagues into one incredibly successful professional football league. In 1970 the old AFL teams, plus three NFL teams would form the American Football Conference or AFC. The remaining NFL teams became the National Football Conference, or NFC. Following the attention and success of that first Super Bowl matchup, the game has gone on to become a worldwide sports phenomenon like no other. What was once just a game, has become a week, sometimes two weeks long celebration of the best two teams in the NFL. The name “Super Bowl” comes from the college football tradition of naming big games “bowls.”