The Last Poster Wins! [v21]

[Plasmalpha Arceus]

However, in most cases when people reach their "fourth down" or "fourth try", they usually punt the ball, which means they bring a special team onto the field and have someone kick the ball as far down the field as possible to the other team's receiver. Thus the punting team switches from offense to defense and the receiving from defense to offense.

One thing to note is, if the ball enters the receiving team's end zone during a punt, the receivers automatically start the ball 20 yards from their own goal.

Also if on 4th down the team decides to aim for the 1st down instead of punt it, and fail, they turn the ball over to the defending team where the ball was stopped.

Touchdowns occur when you get to the end of the field. They are worth six points like your goals. However, after ever touchdown, the scoring team has a chance to get what's called extra points. They can either sub in a kicker to kick the ball between the yellow goal posts for one point or try to score another touchdown from a certain yard line (not sure which one) for two points. Most teams just kick it. Another method of scoring is the field goal, which is essentially the extra point except a field goal is worth three points and is usually kicked from much further out. There's also what's called a safety which is worth two points but I don't really know the concept around that because I've never actually seen it happen.

A safety happens when the defending team tackles whoever has the ball inside their own endzone. For example, if the quarterback (guy who throws the ball most of the time) gets tackled inside his team's endzone while moving the ball, the rival team gets 2 points and gets possession.

Unlike your football, our field is very rectangular whereas yours appeared to be circular. Our football is more focused on gaining and losing yardage and pretty much stops after every play whereas yours seemed to be more flowing and constant like soccer. There's several different penalties a team can get that costs yardage or possession of the ball. For example if a person moves across the line of offense before the ball has been sent to the quarterback then that's false start I believe. If a person drops the ball thats a fumble and unless the guy who dropped it or one of his teammates jumps on top of it then it can be recovered by the other team. Much like how basketball has a shot clock, football has a second clock that makes the offensive team get the play off in a certain amount of time. If they fail to start the play before this clock hits zero then it's called delay of game which costs the offensive team five yards, I believe. There's also different types of like "fouls" such as facemask, horse collar, holding, and targeting, along with others, these are all calls that have to do with how a player was holding onto or hitting another player. The punishments for these range from yardage loss for the offending team (which means that if this were called on the defense then it's in favor to the offense because then the offense gains five or whatever the penalizing amount of yards is) to, in the case of targeting, a person being ejected from the game and possibly the next one. If you want to know the specifics of penalties I would suggest looking it up because I don't know all of them well enough to explain.

Does this make more sense?

There is also unsportsmanlike conduct which can range from taunting and "excessive celebration" to brawling on the field. The first two cause 15 yard penalties and the last one, though rare, can cause ejection from the game and possible suspension depending on how serious the fight was.