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Ford Field
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Ford Field is a multi-purpose indoor stadium located in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, United States, owned by the Detroit/Wayne County Stadium Authority. It is primarily used for American football as the field of the Detroit Lions of the National Football League as well as the annual Quick Lane Bowl college football bowl game. The regular seating capacity is approximately 65,000, though it is expandable up to 70,000 for football and 80,000 for basketball, Ford Field was constructed after Comerica Park, opening in 2002. It cost an estimated million to build, financed largely through private money, public money. The stadiums design incorporates a six-story former Hudsons warehouse, which was constructed in the 1920s, hammes Company, a real estate development company in Middleton, Wisconsin, developed the new stadium, as well as the warehouse. The presence of the warehouse allows for an arrangement that was unique among professional American football stadiums at the time of Ford Fields opening. The majority of suites at Ford Field are located in the Hudson Warehouse along the southern sideline. The bulk of the seats are located along the northern sideline. The upper deck on the northern sideline also contains one level of suites. A similar design was implemented at the renovated Soldier Field, albeit with the use of a new structure to four levels of suites. Unlike most indoor stadiums, Ford Field allows a large amount of light to reach the FieldTurf field, thanks to immense skylights. The windows along the ceiling are frosted to mimic the automotive factories that are prevalent in Metro Detroit, the southwest corner provides the seating bowl and concourse with sunlight year-round and also offers fans a view of downtown Detroit. To prevent the stadium becoming a overly imposing presence in the Detroit skyline. Ford Field is one of seven venues in the NFL that has end zones in the east, there is no NFL rule for field construction regarding sunlight distracting players on the field. The east–west end zone design accommodated the Hudson warehouse location, Ford Field hosted Super Bowl XL on February 5,2006, as the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Seattle Seahawks, 21–10 to win their fifth Super Bowl championship in front of 68,206 in attendance. It also marked the game in the 13-year career of Detroit native and 10-year Steelers running back. In addition, the New York Jets have never hosted a game at their current stadium. On April 1,2007, Ford Field hosted World Wrestling Entertainments WrestleMania 23 and this event set a Ford Field attendance record of 80,103
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Detroit
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Detroit is the most populous city in the U. S. state of Michigan, the fourth-largest city in the Midwest and the largest city on the United States–Canada border. It is the seat of Wayne County, the most populous county in the state, the municipality of Detroit had a 2015 estimated population of 677,116, making it the 21st-most populous city in the United States. Roughly one-half of Michigans population lives in Metro Detroit alone, the Detroit–Windsor area, a commercial link straddling the Canada–U. S. Border, has a population of about 5.7 million. Detroit is a port on the Detroit River, a strait that connects the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The Detroit Metropolitan Airport is among the most important hubs in the United States, the City of Detroit anchors the second-largest economic region in the Midwest, behind Chicago, and the thirteenth-largest in the United States. Detroit and its neighboring Canadian city Windsor are connected through a tunnel and various bridges, Detroit was founded on July 24,1701 by the French explorer and adventurer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and a party of settlers. During the 19th century, it became an important industrial hub at the center of the Great Lakes region, with expansion of the American automobile industry in the early 20th century, the Detroit area emerged as a significant metropolitan region within the United States. The city became the fourth-largest in the country for a period, in the 1950s and 1960s, suburban expansion continued with construction of a regional freeway system. A great portion of Detroits public transport was abandoned in favour of becoming a city in the post-war period. Due to industrial restructuring and loss of jobs in the auto industry, between 2000 and 2010 the citys population fell by 25 percent, changing its ranking from the nations 10th-largest city to 18th. In 2010, the city had a population of 713,777 and this resulted from suburbanization, corruption, industrial restructuring and the decline of Detroits auto industry. In 2013, the state of Michigan declared an emergency for the city. Detroit has experienced urban decay as its population and jobs have shifted to its suburbs or elsewhere, conservation efforts managed to save many architectural pieces since the 2000s and allowed several large-scale revitalisations. More recently, the population of Downtown Detroit, Midtown Detroit, paleo-Indian people inhabited areas near Detroit as early as 11,000 years ago. In the 17th century, the region was inhabited by Huron, Odawa, Potawatomi, for the next hundred years, virtually no British, colonist, or French action was contemplated without consultation with, or consideration of the Iroquois likely response. When the French and Indian War evicted the Kingdom of France from Canada, the 1798 raids and resultant 1799 decisive Sullivan Expedition reopened the Ohio Country to westward emigration, which began almost immediately, and by 1800 white settlers were pouring westwards. By 1773, the population of Detroit was 1,400, by 1778, its population was up to 2,144 and it was the third-largest city in the Province of Quebec
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Allen Park, Michigan
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Allen Park is a middle class suburb in central Wayne County, Michigan. The city is known for its streets, brick houses. At the 2010 census, the population was 28,210, the suburb of Detroit was once recognized in Money Magazines list of Americas Best Small Cities. Allen Park is part of the collection of known as Downriver. Ford Motor Company is an part of the community. Many of the offices and facilities lie within the city limits. Since 2002, Allen Park is the home of the Detroit Lions and is also the site of the teams headquarters. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 7.05 square miles. Allen Park borders Southgate to the South, Lincoln Park to the east, Melvindale to the north and northeast, Dearborn to the northwest, Dearborn Heights to the north, i-75 runs through the southeast corner of Allen Park between Goddard Road and the Lincoln Park border. I-94 runs through the portion of Allen Park between Pelham Road and the Rouge River. M-39, Southfield Road, is a boulevard that travels in a northwest/southeast direction between the Lincoln Park border and I-94. It becomes the Southfield Freeway and curves to the northeast after the I-94 interchange, Goddard Road - an east-west mile road that is the boundary between Allen Park and Southgate between Allen Road and Old Goddard Road. Old Goddard Road - an east-west road that is the boundary between Allen Park and Southgate between Goddard Road and Fordline Street, Allen Road - a north-south road between Pelham Road and Outer Drive. Pelham Road - a north-south mile road that is the boundary between Allen Park and Taylor between Allen Road and Van Born Road, Outer Drive - an east-west road between the Southfield Freeway and the border of Lincoln Park. It serves as a boundary between Allen Park and Melvindale between the border of Lincoln Park and I-94, Oakwood Boulevard - a north-south road between the Southfield Freeway and I-94. Fordline Street - a north-south half mile road that is the boundary between Allen Park and Lincoln Park between Moran Road and Old Goddard Road, Champaign Road - an east-west half mile road between Pelham and Allen roads. The street falls off grid between Allen Road and the Lincoln Park border, wick Road - an east-west mile road between Pelham Road and Vine Street. It is interrupted at the CN Railroad, just east of Pelham Road and it becomes a small residential boulevard east of Reeck Road
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National Football League
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The National Football League is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference and the American Football Conference. The NFL is one of the four professional sports leagues in North America. The NFLs 17-week regular season runs from the week after Labor Day to the week after Christmas, with each team playing 16 games, the NFL was formed in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association before renaming itself the National Football League for the 1922 season. The NFL agreed to merge with the American Football League in 1966, and the first Super Bowl was held at the end of that season, the merger was completed in 1970. Today, the NFL has the highest average attendance of any sports league in the world and is the most popular sports league in the United States. S. The NFLs executive officer is the commissioner, who has authority in governing the league. The team with the most NFL championships is the Green Bay Packers with thirteen, the current NFL champions are the New England Patriots, who defeated the Atlanta Falcons 34–28 in Super Bowl LI. Another meeting held on September 17,1920 resulted in the renaming of the league to the American Professional Football Association, the league hired Jim Thorpe as its first president, and consisted of 14 teams. Only two of these teams, the Decatur Staleys and the Chicago Cardinals, remain, the first event occurred on September 26,1920 when the Rock Island Independents defeated the non-league St. Paul Ideals 48–0 at Douglas Park. On October 3,1920, the first full week of league play occurred, the following season resulted in the Chicago Staleys controversially winning the title over the Buffalo All-Americans. In 1922, the APFA changed its name to the National Football League, in 1932, the season ended with the Chicago Bears and the Portsmouth Spartans tied for first in the league standings. This method had used since the leagues creation in 1920. The league quickly determined that a game between Chicago and Portsmouth was needed to decide the leagues champion. Playing with altered rules to accommodate the playing field, the Bears won the game 9–0. Fan interest in the de facto championship game led the NFL, beginning in 1933, the 1934 season also marked the first of 12 seasons in which African Americans were absent from the league. The de facto ban was rescinded in 1946, following public pressure, the NFL was always the foremost professional football league in the United States, it nevertheless faced a large number of rival professional leagues through the 1930s and 1940s. Rival leagues included at least three separate American Football Leagues and the All-America Football Conference, on top of regional leagues of varying caliber. Three NFL teams trace their histories to these leagues, including the Los Angeles Rams
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National Football Conference
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The National Football Conference is one of the two conferences of the National Football League, the highest professional level of American football in the United States. This conference and its counterpart, the American Football Conference, currently contain 16 teams each, a series of league expansions and division realignments have occurred since the merger, thus making the current total 16 clubs per each conference. Since the 1970 AFL–NFL merger, the Dallas Cowboys lead the NFC with the most conference titles, the current NFC title holders are the Atlanta Falcons. Since 2002, the NFC has 16 teams that organized into four divisions each with four teams, East, North, South, two of these games are assigned on the basis of a particular teams final divisional standing from the previous season. The remaining 8 games are split between the roster of two other NFL divisions and this assignment shifts each year and will follow a standard cycle. Using the 2012 regular season schedule as an example, each team in the NFC West plays against every team in the AFC East and NFC North. In this way, non-divisional competition will be mostly among common opponents – the exception being the two games assigned based on the teams prior-season divisional standing, at the end of each season, the top six teams in the conference proceeds into the playoff. These teams consist of the four winners and the top two wild card teams. The NFC playoffs culminate in the NFC Championship Game with the receiving the George Halas Trophy. The NFC Champion then plays the AFC Champion in the Super Bowl, both the AFC and NFC were created after the NFL merged with the American Football League in 1970. When the AFL began play in 1960 with eight teams, the NFL consisted of 13 clubs, by 1969, the AFL had expanded to ten teams and NFL to 16 clubs. However, team owners could not agree to a plan on how to align the clubs in the NFC. When the Seattle Seahawks and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers joined the league in 1976, they were placed in the NFC and AFC, respectively. The Seahawks returned to the NFC as a result of the 2002 realignment, the Carolina Panthers joined the NFC in 1995. Parity is generally greater among NFC teams than AFC teams, the only NFC team that has never made a Super Bowl appearance is the Detroit Lions. Since the 2002 realignment, the time that an NFC team made back-to-back Super Bowl appearances was the Seattle Seahawks in 2013 and 2014. Since 1970, only two teams have relocated, in 1988, the St. Louis Cardinals moved to Phoenix, Arizona, while the Los Angeles Rams moved to St. Louis in 1995, and back to Los Angeles again in 2016. The original NFC logo, in use from 1970–2009, depicted a blue N with three stars across it, the three stars represented the three divisions that were used from 1970–2001
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History of the Portsmouth Spartans
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The professional American football team now known as the Detroit Lions previously played in Portsmouth, Ohio from its founding in 1929 to its relocation to Detroit in 1934. This article chronicles the history during their time as the Portsmouth Spartans. Originally drawing players from defunct independent professional and semi-pro teams, they joined the fledgling National Football League in 1930 and their home stadium was Universal Stadium. The Spartans formed in 1929, drawing players from defunct independent professional, during that same year, Portsmouth residents agreed to fund the construction of a football stadium that was comparable to those in neighboring communities along the Ohio River. That approval prompted the National Football League to offer the city a franchise in July 1930, and led to the construction of Universal Stadium, which opened September 14 with a capacity of 8,200. With less than 43,000 residents in 1930, Portsmouth became the NFLs second smallest city, ahead of only Green Bay, in that game, Spartan coach Potsy Clark refused to make even a single substitution against the defending NFL champion Packers. Portsmouth won 19–0 and used only 11 players all game, at the end of the 1932 season, the Spartans were tied for first place in the league with the Chicago Bears. That prompted what in retrospect known as the first NFL playoff game. Blizzard conditions in Chicago meant the game was moved from Wrigley Fields outdoor field to the field at Chicago Stadium. The game was won 9–0 by the Bears, on a pass from Bronko Nagurski to Red Grange. The resulting interest led to the establishment of Eastern and Western conferences, despite success on the field, low revenue and the Great Depression threatened the Spartans survival. On March 24,1934, it was announced that a group led by George Richards, Richards renamed the team the Lions, as a complement to the Detroit Tigers. 1 The result of the 1932 NFL Playoff Game to determine the NFL champion between the Chicago Bears and the Portsmouth Spartans counted in the standings, history of the Detroit Lions Scioto Historicals Spartan Municipal Stadium & NFL Football in Portsmouth, Ohio
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1932 NFL Playoff Game
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The 1932 NFL Playoff Game was an extra game held to break a tie in the 1932 seasons final standings in the National Football League. It matched the host Chicago Bears and the Portsmouth Spartans, since the NFLs first season in 1920, the league title had been awarded to the team with the best regular season record based on winning percentage with ties excluded. In 1932, the Spartans and the Bears tied for first place with 6-1 records, the Packers controlled their own destiny at the end of the 1932 season, but lost their final two games to the Spartans and Bears. Further complicating matters, the Spartans and Bears had played and tied each other twice during the regular season, so, for the first time, the league arranged for what amounted to a replay game to determine the NFL champion. Because the game was counted in the standings, the loser would drop to 6–2 and finish third. The league had to make a change to allow the game. Two years earlier, the Bears and Cardinals had played a charity game at the arena. The game was moved primarily to ensure adequate attendance and gate revenue. The sidelines were butted up against the stands, the goal posts were moved from the endlines to the goal lines. The ball was moved back 20 yards every time one team crossed the 10-yard line. For the first time, all started with the ball on or between the hash marks, which were ten yards from the sidelines. Additionally, drop kicks and field goals were banned, with terrible footing on the mulch and limited room for the offenses to work, the defenses dominated the games first three quarters, and the game remained scoreless. Rules at the time mandated that a forward pass had to be thrown from at least five yards behind the line of scrimmage, the Spartans argued that Nagurski did not drop back five yards before passing to Grange, but the touchdown stood. The Bears later scored a safety after the Spartans fumbled the ball out of their end-zone, the high temperature for that Sunday in Chicago was 20 °F, warmer than anticipated earlier in the week. Brown Head Linesman, Meyer Morris Because it proved so popular, through 1932, the league had used the same rules as college football. Beginning with the 1933 season, the NFL introduced its own set of rules, in 1933, the NFL expanded to ten teams and divided into two divisions. The division winners met in a championship game to determine the NFL champion. The 1932 NFL Playoff Game is also regarded as the first major football game
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Spartan Municipal Stadium
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Spartan Municipal Stadium, formerly known as Universal Stadium, is a stadium in Portsmouth, Ohio. It hosted the National Football Leagues Portsmouth Spartans from 1930 to 1933, the stadium held 8,200 people at its peak and was built in 1930. In 1970, it was renamed Spartan Municipal Stadium, on October 5,2003, the stadium was designated as a state historical site. The stadium is owned by the City of Portsmouth, after a fire in the 1990s, the city replaced walls and the press box. Also, the city upgraded the lighting thanks to a USDA grant, several years ago, the city began limiting stadium use to only regular football games to help preserve the sod. In the past, both Portsmouth and Notre Dame High School football teams have played on the turf, the future of the stadium is in doubt. Notre Dame intends to remain at Spartan Stadium, also, the Shawnee State University Board of Trustees recently approved a future buildings plan that would include a new stadium for the university. The city has even discussed demolishing the stadium for future development while local concerned residents have expressed the need to preserve the historical site, Universal Stadium receives state historical site designation Portsmouth Spartans Historical Society Scioto Historicals Spartan Municipal Stadium & NFL Football in Portsmouth, Ohio
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University of Detroit Stadium
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University of Detroit Stadium, also known as U of D Stadium, Titan Stadium, or Dinan Field, was a stadium in Detroit, Michigan on the campus of the University of Detroit. The stadium opened in 1922, on land that had acquired for the universitys proposed new McNichols campus. The stadium stood on 6-Mile Road just west of Fairfield St. in the northeast corner of the campus. It was built with the field on an axis, with stands on the east and west sides of the field. In addition to football, it was used for track meets, concerts. One rather unusual aspect of the stadium were its lighting towers, University of Detroit Stadium was the home field for the NFLs Detroit Lions from 1934 to 1937, and again in 1940. The Lions also played early season home games there in 1938 &39. The stadium was also was home to the Detroit Wolverines for their only NFL season in 1928, U of D stadium was the site of the 1935 NFL Championship Game, won by the Lions over the New York Giants, 26–7. The Detroit Cougars professional soccer club played games here in the summers of 1967 and 1968 whenever their regular home field. One such match on June 14,1967 against the Houston Stars ended in an infamous player riot, the Michigan Arrows of the fledgling Continental Football League used the stadium for the 1968 season. Unfortunately, the Arrows drew just 4,240 fans per game en route to a 1-11 season, the Arrows moved to Midland, Michigan to become the Tri-City Apollos in 1969, then folded with the rest of the league. The stadium was demolished in 1971 and was replaced by a parking lot, for many years thereafter the stadiums lighting towers remained standing in order to provide lighting for the lot. The location is occupied by a multi-purpose turf field north of Calihan Hall
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Tiger Stadium (Detroit)
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Tiger Stadium, previously known as Navin Field and Briggs Stadium, was a baseball park located in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan. It hosted the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball from 1912 to 1999 and it was declared a State of Michigan Historic Site in 1975 and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1989. The stadium was nicknamed The Corner for its location on Michigan Avenue, the last Detroit Tigers game at the stadium was held in September 1999. In the decade after the Tigers vacated the stadium, several rejected redevelopment, the stadiums demolition was completed on September 21,2009, though the stadiums actual playing field remains at the corner where the stadium once stood. Since the spring of 2010, a group known as the Navin Field Grounds Crew has restored and maintained the field. A plan to redevelop the old Tiger Stadium site would retain the historic playing field for sports and ring the 10-acre property with new development has received final approval. Developer Eric Larson of Larson Realty will develop a residential and retail project along the Michigan Ave and Trumbull sides of the property. The Detroit Police Athletic League will begin construction, in early April 2016, on a new building along Michigan Ave. The L-shaped building would enclose two sides of the field, together these two projects will completely ring the old site. In 1895, Detroit Tigers owner George Vanderbeck had a new ballpark built at the corner of Michigan and that stadium was called Bennett Park and featured a wooden grandstand with a wooden peaked roof in the outfield. At the time, some places in the outfield were only marked off with rope, in 1911, new Tigers owner Frank Navin ordered a new steel-and-concrete baseball park on the same site that would seat 23,000 to accommodate the growing numbers of fans. Navin Field opened on April 20,1912, the day as the Boston Red Soxs Fenway Park. While constructed on the site as Bennett Park, the diamond at Navin Field was rotated 90°. Cleveland Naps player Shoeless Joe Jackson, later banned from baseball for life following the Black Sox Scandal, the intimate configurations of both stadiums, both conducive to high-scoring games featuring home runs, prompted baseball writers to refer to them as bandboxes or cigar boxes. Over the years, expansion continued to more people. In 1935, following Navins death, new owner Walter Briggs oversaw the expansion of Navin Field to a capacity of 36,000 by extending the upper deck to the foul poles and across right field. By 1938, the city had agreed to move Cherry Street, allowing left field to be double-decked, in 1961, new owner John Fetzer took control of the stadium and gave it its final name, Tiger Stadium. Under this name, the stadium witnessed World Series titles in 1968 and 1984, a fire gutted the press box on the evening of February 1,1977
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Pontiac Silverdome
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The Pontiac Silverdome, formerly known as the Silverdome, is a stadium in Pontiac, Michigan, United States. It opened in 1975 and sits on 127 acres of land, when the stadium opened, it featured a fiberglass fabric roof held up by air pressure, the first use of the technique in a major athletic facility. The roof has since been removed, with a seating capacity of 82,000, it was the largest stadium in the National Football League until FedEx Field in suburban Washington, D. C. opened in 1997. It was primarily the home of the Detroit Lions of the NFL from 1975 to 2001 and was home to the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association from 1978 to 1988. In 2012 the Silverdome served as the venue of the Detroit Mechanix of the American Ultimate Disc League. After the opening of Ford Field in 2002, the stadium was left without a permanent tenant and it first closed in 2006, but after multiple attempts to solicit redevelopment plans, the city sold the stadium at auction in 2009. It reopened in 2010 and hosted events, but closed again by 2013. The roof was deflated in 2013 and has since been removed, owners auctioned the stadiums contents in 2014 with no future development through June 2015, and plans for demolition failed after February of 2016. As of March 2017, an agreement has been made, for the World Cup matches, a natural grass surface capable of growing inside the dome was developed and installed by a team from Michigan State University. This grass surface was laid upon wooden pallets atop the artificial turf that is usually used and it was the first time that World Cup games were played indoors. On March 29,1987, the World Wrestling Federations WrestleMania III established the record for attendance of 93,173, the largest recorded attendance for a live indoor sporting event in North America. The record stood until February 14,2010 when the 2010 NBA All-Star Game broke the indoor sporting event record with an attendance of 108,713 at Cowboys Stadium, the Silverdome hosted an AMA Supercross Championship round from 1976 to 2005. In 2012, the Silverdome became the stadium of the citys professional Ultimate Frisbee team. That year, the Silverdome hosted the AUDL championship game, as on August 11, after the roof had been collapsed and the stadium abandoned, Red Bull produced a video of BMX rider Tyler Fernengel riding inside the Silverdome in 2015. That same year, a racing event at the former parking lot marked the beginning of Woodward Dream Cruise. The idea of a sports complex was part of a dream of C. Don Davidson, a Pontiac, Michigan native and star high school athlete, Davidson, upon graduating from Pontiac Central High School in 1947 and completing active duty with the U. S. Marine Corps, attended North Carolina State University on a football scholarship. He returned to Pontiac in 1965 and was shocked to see the deterioration of the city of Pontiac, Davidson embarked upon what would eventually become an obsession for him to see his beloved city succeed
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American football
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The offense must advance at least ten yards in four downs, or plays, or else they turn over the football to the opposing team, if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs. Points are primarily scored by advancing the ball into the teams end zone for a touchdown or kicking the ball through the opponents goalposts for a field goal. The team with the most points at the end of a game wins, 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, during the latter half of the 1870s, colleges playing association football switched to the Rugby Union code, which allowed carrying the ball. American football as a whole is the most popular sport in the United States, Professional football and college football are the most popular forms of the game, with the other major levels being high school and youth football. As of 2012, nearly 1.1 million high school athletes and 70,000 college athletes play the sport in the United States annually, almost all of them men, in the United States, American football is referred to as football. The term football was established in the rulebook for the 1876 college football season. The terms gridiron or American football are favored in English-speaking countries where other codes of football are popular, such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, American football evolved from the sports of association football and rugby football. What is considered to be the first American football game was played on November 6,1869 between Rutgers and Princeton, two college teams, the game was played between two teams of 25 players each and used a round ball that could not be picked up or carried. It could, however, be kicked or batted with the feet, hands, head or sides, Rutgers won the game 6 goals to 4. Collegiate play continued for years in which matches were played using the rules of the host school. Representatives of Yale, Columbia, Princeton and Rutgers met on October 19,1873 to create a set of rules for all schools to adhere to. Teams were set at 20 players each, and fields of 400 by 250 feet were specified, Harvard abstained from the conference, as they favored a rugby-style game that allowed running with the ball. An 1875 Harvard-Yale game played under rugby-style rules was observed by two impressed Princeton athletes and these players introduced the sport to Princeton, a feat the Professional Football Researchers Association compared to selling refrigerators to Eskimos. Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Columbia then agreed to play using a form of rugby union rules with a modified scoring system. These schools formed the Intercollegiate Football Association, although Yale did not join until 1879, the introduction of the snap resulted in unexpected consequences. Prior to the snap, the strategy had been to punt if a scrum resulted in bad field position, however, a group of Princeton players realized that, as the snap was uncontested, they now could hold the ball indefinitely to prevent their opponent from scoring. In 1881, both teams in a game between Yale-Princeton used this strategy to maintain their undefeated records, each team held the ball, gaining no ground, for an entire half, resulting in a 0-0 tie
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Downtown Detroit
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Downtown Detroit is the central business district and a residential area of the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States. Detroit is the city in the larger Metro Detroit region. Downtown Detroit is bordered by M-10 to the west, Interstate 75 to the north, I-375 to the east, the citys main thoroughfare M-1 links Downtown to Midtown, New Center, and the North End. Downtown contains much historic architecture and many of the prominent skyscrapers in Detroit, including the Renaissance Center, the Penobscot Building, One Detroit Center, Historic churches, theatres, and commercial buildings anchor the various downtown districts. Downtown has a number of parks including those linked by a promenade along the International Riverfront and its central square is Campus Martius Park. In recent years the area has seen tremendous growth and redevelopment. Since 2000 a number of construction projects have been completed including the new Compuware Headquarters at Campus Martius Park. General Motors moved their headquarters into the Renaissance Center, and the Detroit Lions have relocated from Pontiac to Downtown Detroit. High-profile events like the 2005 MLB All-Star Game, Super Bowl XL, as a result, new residents are moving into Detroit in the assortment of new lofts that are opening. An example of these trends is the Westin Book-Cadillac Hotel, in 2006, the Cleveland-based Ferchill Group began the $180 million redevelopment of the historic Book Cadlliac Hotel at the corner of Washington Blvd. and Michigan Avenue. DTE Energy Headquarters features an urban oasis of parks, walkways, in 2007, Downtown Detroit was named among the best big city neighborhoods in which to retire by CNN Money Magazine editors. Downtown contains popular destinations including, the International Riverfront, the MGM Grand Detroit, Greektown Casino Hotel, Downtown Detroit hosts over 92,000 workers which make up about one-fifth of the citys total employment base, in addition, it is home to about 5,300 residents. Downtown offers a number of high rises, including Riverfront Towers, The Albert. The Renaissance Center contains the Detroit Marriott hotel, General Motors headquarters, as well as many shops, Compuware has its headquarters in the Compuware World Headquarters building by Campus Martius Park in Downtown Detroit. Compuware moved its headquarters and 4,000 employees to Downtown Detroit in 2003, Little Caesars and Olympia Entertainment have their headquarters in the Fox Theatre. Ernst & Young has offices in One Kennedy Square on Campus Martius Park, pricewaterhouse Coopers has offices in a building across from Ford Field. Chrysler maintains executive offices at Chrysler House in the citys Financial District, in 2011, Quicken Loans moved its headquarters and 4,000 employees to downtown. Comerica Bank and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan are also major employers downtown, as of the 2010 Census, there were 5,287 people residing in the district
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Portsmouth, Ohio
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Portsmouth is a city in and the county seat of Scioto County, Ohio, United States. It lies in far southern Ohio, just east of the mouth of the Scioto River at the Ohio River, the population was 20,226 at the 2010 census. According to historian Charles Augustus Hanna, a Shawnee village was founded at the site of modern-day Portsmouth in late 1758, Portsmouths European-American roots date to the 1790s, when the small town of Alexandria was founded west of Portsmouths site. Alexandria was flooded numerous times by the Ohio and the Scioto rivers, in 1803, Henry Massie spotted a place to move the town away from the flood plains. He began to plot the new city by mapping the streets, Portsmouth was founded in 1803 and was established as a city in 1815. Portsmouth growth continued with the completion of the Ohio and Erie Canal, the construction of the N&W railyards and the B&O junction at the city also stimulated growth, with railroads soon carrying more freight than the canal. By the end of the 19th century, Portsmouth became one of the most important cities on the Ohio River between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel employed over one thousand people. There were 100 other manufacturing companies producing goods from furniture to engines, industrial and shipping growth greatly benefited Boneyfiddle, where grand buildings were constructed with the wealth from the commerce. As time passed, much of the commerce began to move towards Chillicothe Street, while Boneyfiddle is receiving new life, it is a shadow of its former self. Another notable part of Portsmouths history in the 19th century was its importance on the Underground Railroad, fugitive slaves used this route to continue north to Detroit and into Canada to gain freedom. The population peaked at just over 42,000 in 1930, and by the 1950 census, foreign competition and industrial restructuring resulted in most of the industrial jobs on which Portsmouths economy was based moving out of the area. Following these declines, in 1980 when Empire-Detroit Steel-Portsmouth Works suspended local operations after the sale of the plant to Armco Steel. Armco Steel closed the plant because they did not want to replace the obsolete Open Hearth Furnaces with the more efficient basic oxygen steel furnaces, the plant also needed a continuous caster to replace the obsolete soaking pits and blooming mill in 1995. When the steel mill was closed,1,300 steelworkers were laid off, as of 2010, the city has a population of approximately 20,000. It has shared in the loss of jobs due to unskilled labor outsourcing, since the late 1990s and problems of unemployment, an epidemic of prescription drug abuse has swept the town and surrounding areas. It has caused an increase in Hepatitis C cases in the county, drug-related deaths, robberies, murder. The most prevalent drug is OxyContin, a synthetic opiate originally developed as a drug, known colloquially as oxys. The crisis is blamed on the proliferation of cash-only pain clinics, according to authorities, there are eight such clinics in Scioto County alone, the largest concentration of such operations per capita in any of Ohios counties
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