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__The Evolution of American football pads__:

Football has been around for an extremely long time, with over 100 grey cup's, almost 50 super bowls, there has truly been a huge fascination for this sport and seeing as I have played this sport since 2008 I thought it'd be a great topic to talk about. Around the early 1900's there was soft leather helmets that people didn't ever need to wear, they were originally suppose to protect your ears and it wasn't until 1915-1917 where the first skull protective helmets were made. throughout the early years of football most players didn't even wear shoulder pads because they were affair that their teammates or friends were going to make fun of them for wearing these pads, like the helmets these were originally leather as well and it wasn't until around the 1950's where shoulder pads started to get popular around football. Football pants were made of a tough canvas material with the majority of the padding for your lower half sewn into the pants like your tight, knee, hip pads; at this time your tail bone pad wasn't required to wear and the majority of players didn't wear them. When football cleats originally came out they took many of the designs for their cleats for soccer cleats, only difference with the football cleats compared to the soccer cleats is that football cleats had a stud built into the stud of the front area of the cleat so the football players for get more speed while they played, with time the cleats started to become lighter and lighter so it'd be easier for the players to run in different weather conditions.

__Old Football Gear Compared to New__:

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__**Shoulder** **Pads:**__ Old: New:

__**Pants:**__ Old: New:

__**Cleats:**__ Old: New:

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__**Further Reading:**__ (Most of these stories are studies of how the gear is effective) [|football helmets] [|shoulder pads] [|how pads are effective for kids] [|football cleats]

__**Sources:**__ [|all gear besides cleats] [|only cleats] [|all gear in general] [|only about the football helmet]

__Genetically Modified Organisms:__ https://www.aan.com/PressRoom/home/PressRelease/1241 Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's) are organisms that have been changed and they could be changed for several different reasons; color change, making the organism bigger, helping it in harsh conditions, you name it an there could be some organism out there that has been changed just for that very reason. I good example for something that has been genetically modified would be the strawberries that we have today, back in the day strawberries use to be much smaller and a lot more sweeter but as of today strawberries have become much bigger and are not nearly has sweet. Why you may ask well strawberries were given a bacteria that would make them grow faster and when you make the strawberry grow faster they won't have enough time to be able to mature which means if the strawberry didn't have time to mature then it results in the strawberries tasting less sweet. Certain GMO's can be quite deadly to the human body and yet they are still used today just to make certain products sell better and the people who use these GMO's have to use a lot less money to make there products. Even certain animals have been changed just for our generations, chicken have become much bigger, so big that they can even walk at a certain part of their lifetime, and some goats have been given a special spider gene so that they are able to produce the same kind of silk as these spiders but at a much quicker rate.



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For more on GMO's: [|Kids right to know about GMO's] [|Eating right ft. GMO's] [|foods with GMO's] [|Whole Debate on GMO's]

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__Homeostasis:__

Homeostasis is when your body has the tendency to be able to maintain a stable equilibrium between the interdependent elements. Some failures to homeostasis can lead to diabetes, hypertension, etc. Homeostasis happens pretty much all the time in your body, somethings that cause homeostasis to start our eating, drinking, sweating, and there are several other examples that you could use. Homeostasis works when your brain starts to experience changes to certain events happening at the time, some examples are when you go outside in this current weather we are having now but you go out with shorts and a t-shirt your body will start to shiver up your brain gives this response so that way you are able to stay within a control for your body this also happens for if you go outside when it's really warm your brain will react to the changes so that way your body stays at a normal amount that it usually should stay at, the only time this changes is if something would happen to you. Homeostasis makes sure your body is at a healthy balance so nothing would go wrong with you body.



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