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Football Terms: Downs
Downs are another one of those crazy terms you hear a lot, but like most things in football, it’s made waaaaay more complicated than it needs to be. So without further ado, let’s get down with downs (hiss, boo, get off the stage).
Downs are plays. The offensive team has four of them in American Football and three in Canadian Football. When these four/three plays are used up, possession of the ball goes to the other team and the offense becomes the defense and vice-versa. It’s similar to outs in baseball.
Now, the objective of a down is to travel ten yards. This is the first down, as in the first of the four allotted plays. If the offensive team successfully gains ten yards or more, the number of downs resets. For example, if in first down they make it twelve yards, they stay in first down. If they only make it six yards, they move to second down and so on until fourth down or the ball changes possession by another means.
If a team gets to fourth down, they’re close to loosing possession and that’s usually when crazy shenanigans happen.
