9 February 2025 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, Sport
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© flickr.com – George Bannister/cc-by-2.0
The Caesars Superdome (originally the Louisiana Superdome and formerly the Mercedes-Benz Superdome), commonly known as the Superdome, is a domed
multi-purpose stadium in
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. It is the home stadium of the
New Orleans Saints of the
National Football League (NFL).
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6 February 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, San Francisco Bay Area, Sport
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Broncos vs 49ers preseason game © flickr.com – Jim Bahn/cc-by-sa-3.0
Levi’s Stadium is an
American football stadium located in
Santa Clara, California, just west of the much larger city of
San Jose, in the
San Francisco Bay Area. It has served as the home venue for the
National Football League (NFL)’s
San Francisco 49ers since 2014. The stadium is located approximately 40 miles (64 km) south of
San Francisco. It is named after
Levi Strauss & Co., which purchased
naming rights in 2013.
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29 January 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, Sport, Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Wilson American football ‘The Duke’ © Torsten Bolten/cc-by-sa-4.0
Ada is a village in
Hardin County,
Ohio,
United States, located about 69 miles (111 km) southwest of
Toledo. The population was 5,334 at the
2020 census. It is the home of
Ohio Northern University. The
National Arbor Day Foundation has qualified Ada as a
Tree City USA since 1981.
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31 January 2020 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, Miami / South Florida, Sport
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The
NFL Super Bowl LIV, the 54th
Super Bowl and the 50th
modern-era National Football League (NFL) championship game (
American Football) will decide the league champion for the league’s
2019 and 100th season. The game will be played on February 2, 2020 at Hard Rock Stadium in
Miami Gardens,
Florida. This will be the 11th Super Bowl hosted by the South Florida region and the sixth Super Bowl hosted in Miami Gardens, which hosted
Super Bowl XLIV ten years earlier. At the beginning of the Super Bowl,
America the Beautiful (
America the Beautiful on YouTube) and the American national anthem (
The Star-Spangled Banner –
US National Anthem by Beyonce) is intoned, followed by a fly-over over the stadium by a flying unit of the
United States Armed Forces (one will have to wait in vain for a while to be able to watch the overflight by the new 6th armed forces, the
United States Space Force). This year’s legendary
halftime show will be co-headlined by the
American artist
Jennifer Lopez and the
Colombian artist
Shakira.
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9 January 2017 | Author/Destination: Around the World / Rund um die Welt | Category: General, Sport
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American football evolved in the United States, originating from the sports of
association football and
rugby football. The first game of American football was played on
November 6, 1869, between two college teams,
Rutgers and
Princeton, under rules based on the
association football rules of the time. During the latter half of the 1870s, colleges playing association football switched to the
Rugby Union code, which allowed carrying the ball. A set of rule changes drawn up from
1880 onward by
Walter Camp, the “Father of American Football”, established the
snap, eleven-player teams, and the concept of downs; later rule changes legalized the
forward pass, created the
neutral zone, and specified the size and shape of the football.
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