 Now that we know how the field is set up. We know the different positions Let's take a look at how you would start a game and that is with a kickoff Let's take a look at how you do a kickoff There's a few different times throughout the game where you have a kickoff and As I mentioned the first one then would be at the beginning of the game at the beginning of the game and then at also at the beginning of the The second half If you remember the game would be divided into four 15-minute quarters at the end of the first quarter in the end of the third quarter teams just switch sides, but the team Who is on offense at that point will remain on offense But after half time After the intermission At the after the second quarter and we would begin the third quarter of the second half with a another kickoff If there is an overtime Then that would also be a point when we would have a kickoff We would also have a kickoff after a touchdown and It wouldn't be right after the touchdown would actually be after the either extra point or the two-point conversion and then after a successful Field goal so if you remember from the field goal or the scoring video if a team Misses a field goal the team that was on defense at the time that the field goal was kicked Why should they become the offense and they will take over the ball right where it was right at that line of scrimmage, but if the team does make the field goal Then they would kick off to the other team. So let's take a look then. How does these kickoff things work? so at the beginning of the game as Well as the beginning of this the second half ball will be placed on the 35 yard line and The the players will line up. We would have our kicker would be Of course the central guy involved here and then we would have all the other Players on the team. So again, there would be 11 players out there on both teams So I want to drop them all but they would have someone one side usually someone the other side and Then of course, we'll have our defense and they'll be standing down here waiting and there's usually either Either one or two Guys who are deep right around the goal line to receive the ball and then of course we have all the the other Members of that the receiving team You cannot Block a kickoff you can only come within in ten yards of that kickoff So the defense isn't allowed to go for the receiving team isn't allowed to go Beyond ten yards in front of the Where the ball is So we have all our players here the Team on the kicker run up kick the ball And it will be caught then By the receiving team who will run as far as he can of course these Guys here will run up. We'll try to block for him wherever he decides to run And at the same time these Guys on the team who kicked off they will run down they will try to tackle or pull down the guy with The ball the guy who received the ball and so then wherever that would occur That's where the first line of scrimmage would be and then these X's Would then become the the blue team would become the offense if in the event the ball is kicked So far that it goes into the end zone so we kick it's kicked the whole way down here into the end zone which is is a fairly common occurrence nowadays and either the Maybe the Receiver catches the ball and he decides not to come out of the end zone or if the ball actually Goes out of the back of the end zone Then this would result in what we call a touch back And so a touch back means That there is no kickoff return and that the ball is simply Placed at the 20 yard line and so the 20 yard line would then be the first line of scrimmage for the blue team heading down the field So let's take a look at a few pictures. Maybe that'll make more sense to you then so here's a guy or a kicker here for this white team He will be kicking the ball off Down the field and you can see probably even better and this this photo that the white guy The guy on the white team here is his kicked off Down the field here's all his guys on his team and so all Ten of them will run down as well as the kicker To run down tried to tackle the guy who is has received ball and is running back And so that then is how kickoffs work