In some odd way America's beloved sport gets incorporated into everything we do... even physics! Football isn't as mindless as a sport in such that they just hit each other but the plays that they run deal greatly with vectors. Such vectors can even further relate to math (yay!) such as sine, cosine, and tangent. The distance and direction deals is a major part in getting the ball to the end zone. To determine the distance they can use a simple pythagorean theorem. If the wanted to get down to the nitty gritty they could even find the angle using trigonometric equations
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