Articles of category "Arena football"

American football is one of the most popular sports in the United States of America and Canada. That was the exact reason why James Foster developed its indoor replica in 1981. That year marked the beginning of the arena football development. The nowadays arena football information reports that arena football has earned nearly the same popularity as its predecessor American football.

Arena football rules are similar to those of the American football, so there are only a few distinctions between its laws and the rules of the National Football League (American Football League). These differences mainly concern the arena football scoring and arena football field. The reduced arena football field size is intended to make the game faster and achieve higher scoring.