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Bottle football league
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The Bottle Football League is an organization created by a group of students at Downingtown West High School. The game includes the rules of American Football only that instead of a football a regulation water bottle is used. The sport is now quite popular with some groups in the region and was even featured on Fox News. ---- History The BFL started in 2007 when a group a students at Downingtown West High School started tossing a bottle around during a lunch period. Soon many students joined in and bottle football. Bottle football expanded rapidly and spread throughout several other schools. Bottle football was featured on fox news on October 1st 2008. Soon after the first two official teams were made. The teams were The Rhode Island Islanders and the Philadelphia Saints. ---- Gameplay Bottle football is played using a regulation sized water bottle and field. The field is much shorter than an actual football field however there is still first down makers roughly every 8 yards. The sport is played using the NFL rulebook with several exceptions. Field goals also exist in bottle football but do have the same area as ones in the NFL do. There are also several other minor rule changes. Regulation bottles are half filled water bottles that are stripped of their brand wrapping. ---- See Also
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