Beginner's Guide to Football

Americans are football fanatics! Learn about the pros and cons of taking up the great sport of football in this introductory clip from a professional football coach.

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Requires mental & physical dedication
Builds tremendous sense of teamwork
Creates friendships through hardships
Rewards hard work with championships

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Ben Bennett is an American football coach, most recently the head coach of the af2's Austin Wranglers. He has been involved in professional football as a player and coach since 1984. After a successful college career at Duke University , Bennett played in the National Football League (NFL), the United States Football League (USFL), the Arena Football League (AFL), and the World League of American Football (WLAF). He coached in the AFL and af2. He was inducted into the Arena Football Hall of Fame as a player in 2000.

BEN BENNET: Hey gang, I'm Ben Bennet, head coach of the Austin Wranglers of the Arena Football 2 League and I'm here to tell you a little bit about the sport that I love and the game that I've played for 30 plus years. There's a lot of reasons to get into sports, a lot of people get into them for the wrong reasons. You get into them for money or prestige. Football is not that kind of game. If you're going to get into football, it's a very violent game. It takes you a lot of time and effort. You have to dedicate yourself both mentally and physically to be good. But once you do that, the things that you got out of playing football are immeasurable and you can't get them anywhere else. You get a tremendous sense of teamwork because it's not just one guy, its 11 guys working towards the same goal. You create friendships through the hardship that you face that you'll have for the rest of your life. But the most important thing is when you do something that you put so much time and effort into and you accomplished and win a championship, those types of things mean more to you because you spent a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of your hard work goes into doing it along with however many other guys are on your team. And once you win a championship, no one can ever take that away from you.

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