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The same principles of expansion through force fuel the demand for football in America as it did during the pilgrim’s Westward expansion. In fact, perhaps the reason football is so popular in America while it is trumped by sports such as soccer and baseball in other countries is its strong ties to American ideals. During your standard football game, one team attempts to ‘take’ the other team’s land by pushing through their defenses. This bears a remarkable similarity to the American settler’s desire to acquire all the land by pushing through the Native American peoples.
In addition, there are some other similarities in the game, such as collar on an NFL player’s shoulder pads being called a horse collar. Horses had a significant contribution to the westward expansion, as most all settlers rode on horses or in carriages pulled by horses and oxen.