Football Historian Answers Football Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

Sportswriter and football historian John Eisenberg joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about American Football. Who invented football? Why is it called football? Who's the better quarterback, Tom Brady or Patrick Mahomes? What's the most impactful rule change in the history of the NFL? How have technological advancements changed the game and how it's played? What's the biggest comeback of all time in the NFL? Answers to these questions and many more await on Football Support.



0:00 Football Support

0:12 But they use their hands?

0:44 America’s Team

1:18 Impressive!

2:13 Touchdown: Origins

2:47 The new NFL kickoff rule

3:23 Pigskin

4:01 Biggest rule changes

4:39 Who invented football?

5:26 Worst of the worst

5:56 Mahomes v Brady

6:38 What is it that you do here

7:10 Jerry Rice

7:34 The Greatest

8:04 Broadway Joe

8:54 Moving the goalposts

9:53 That undefeated 1972 Dolphins team

11:02 Technology

12:07 Throwing WHILE running

13:05 CTE

13:58 Biggest single-season turnaround

14:31 Leather helmets

15:15 Vince Lombardi

15:58 Unbreakable NFL Records

16:44 Don’t call it a comeback





Director: Justin Wolfson

Director of Photography: Charlie Jordan

Editor: Alex Mechanik

Expert: John Eisenberg

Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi

Associate Producer: Brandon White

Production Manager: Peter Brunette

Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark

Casting Producer: Nicholas Sawyer

Camera Operator: Chris Eustache

Sound Mixer: Sean Paulsen

Production Assistant: Sonia Butt

Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin

Post Production Coordinator: Rachel Kim

Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen

Additional Editor: Paul Tael; Jason Malizia

Assistant Editor: Andy Morell

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