You have four attempts to move the ball 10 yards
Hence '1st and 10'. If you moved it 6 yards forwards on the 1st down, you would have 4 yards to go - hence '2nd and 4'.
If you move it 10 yards you get another first down and off you go again. If you don't, the opposition get the ball.
I learned all this during half time at a Norwich game in about 1985 when they had a demonstration of the sport by the Norwich Spackfackers or whatever their team was called.
Posted By: norway on February 5th 2012 at 19:02:56
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