Re: Madden Accessibility Update
Hi SLJ, I'm a fan of both so I'll give it a shot.
European football, which I'm going to call soccer henceforth, is a game with near constant jogging and moments of full on sprinting. There are 11 players on each team on the field at a time. Very little contact but the contact allowed is called slide tackling and it is nasty. It is when a player that isn't moving the ball around with his feet attacks a player with the ball by sliding on the ground, feet first. As said the ball is moved solely by the feet, touching with your hands is a penalty except for the players that guard the goals, named goalies.
Goals are how the game is won. A player scores a goal by kicking the ball into the other players net, which is at the opposite end of the field than your own net you are defending. A net is a large metal frame with a cloth net of ropes attached.
American football is played almost solely with the hands. There are no nets. Also 11 players on the fie ld at a time, but there are different squads for different purposes. Offense tries to get the football to the other end of the field, held by one of the players. Throwing the ball is allowed, running the ball is allowed and kicking is allowed but when you kick the ball you give up possession of it. This is important because in American football, the offense has four chances to advance the ball ten yards forward on the field. The other team tries to stop them. That's the defense squad doing their job. If the offense can't advance ten yards in four tries, called downs, they have to give the ball up. In between downs, the play stops at the referees whistle. American football is played in very short bursts. If the offense can advance the ball ten yards, then they get another set of four attempts. So the object is to move down the field to score a touchdown which is when one of your players has the ball through a run or pass and runs onto the other teams end zone, which is just an area on the ground. It is the goal, but it isn't anything like a soccer goal. The last squad is called special teams, and they handle kicking the ball, and running it back when the other team kicks.
There are further shades of complexity but those are the main points. Soccer has a set length: 90 minutes, but extended when injuries on the field stop play.
American football is four quarters of 15 minutes each but the games are usually around 3 hours because of stop time in between downs. The clock doesn't advance when they're setting up the play.
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