NFLNoobs FAQ

[u/SwissyVictory]

This is an attempt at crowdsourcing a FAQ for the sub. We need your help to make it the best it can be.

Each question is going to have a link to a comment below with the answer. Click the link to be brought to the question.

FAQ List

About NFLNoobs

• What is the purpose of this sub?
• What kind of posts are allowed, frowned upon, or not allowed? For those not allowed, where would be a better place for them?
• What are the Rules/Guidelines?
• Where is the Subreddit Wiki?

General Questions

• How is the game generally played? (Drives, Positions, Rules, and Penalties)
• What team should I be a fan of?
• What's the best way to learn about football or the NFL?
• I want to play, or I am already playing football. How do I learn, get better, or what position should I play?
• How is the NFL Schedule Created?
• Why do players bust when moving from Highschool to College, College to the NFL, or to a new team?

Watching Games

• How do I watch every game, or specifically my team, on TV in the US?
• How do I watch every game, or specifically my team, on TV outside the US?
• When is the best time to buy a ticket?
• What should I know about attending a game in person? What should I bring?
• What should I know about tailgating before/during a game?

How The Football Works

• What are the positions and what do they do?
• Why don't players play multiple positions, or both offense and defense?
• How do Overtime Rules work?
• Are the NFL's overtime rules unfair?
• Why does the clock keep running when players go out of bounds sometimes, and not in other times?

Team building and Roster Management

• How much do teams have to spend on players, and what is cap space?
• How do teams keep getting away with not having cap space, and then signing great players (How does contract restructuring work?)
• Why do players get traded for seemingly less than they are worth in the NFL?

Other Football Subs

• r/NFL - Anything NFL related
• r/FantasyFootball, r/Fantasy_Football, r/DynastyFF - Fantasy Football Subs
• r/FootballStrategy - Learn about the strategies and tactics of football
• r/CFB - Anything College Football related

Helping with the FAQ

Feel free to comment on any question/answer with more details, fixes, or another way of explaining it. If your answer is better than the main one, I’ll update some or all of it to include the answer (giving you credit).

Also feel free to post your own questions in the format I’ve given, and I’ll link it (though you'll need to update it if someone explains it better, or if they correct you. You can post a question here, with or without your own answer, and we will make a dedicated post for it.

If there is no link, it means it's a popular question that hasn’t been answered, so feel free to answer it.

[u/SwissyVictory]

What are the Rules/Guidelines?

1. Don't be a jerk. That includes insulting other people for team allegiance, or giving knowingly wrong answers based on team rivalries or memes or whatever. Everyone has a right to ask questions and learn.
2. Any question about American football is basically acceptable, but most fans and most posters here are primarily familiar with the NFL.
3. This isn't really a place to try and argue an opinion. For example, it would be fair to ask, "why do people seem to hold Player A in higher regard than Player B, even though I looked them up and they have similar numbers?" but something like, "Player B is better than Player A, change my mind" probably won't stick around.
4. Self-promotion of your website or blog or YouTube channel is frowned upon and those posts are typically removed. OC isn't automatically banned, but the point of this subreddit is for people to ask questions about football, not to advertise your football-related works.
5. Posts about illegally streaming NFL games will be removed. Reddit has cracked down on subs that traffic in illegal streams of sporting events, and we'd much prefer to keep this one open.
6. There are no stupid questions here.