A player rushes into the red painted end zone, scoring a touchdown during a college football game.

The University of Texas Longhorn Band performing on the football field of Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas, the end zone of which is decorated in colors of The University of Texas at Austin. The University of Texas Longhorn Band, also known as the Showband of the Southwest or LHB, is the Marching band of The University of Texas at Austin College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, Colleges and military academies Reliant Stadium is a multiple-use Stadium in Houston, Texas. The stadium is the home of the National Football League 's Houston Texans

The end zone is a term in both Canadian football and American football. In accordance with the Manual of Style (see) Canadian English is used throughout this article (see Canadian_English#Spelling) American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive Team sport known for mixing strategy with The end zone is the area between the end line and goal line bounded by the sidelines. The goal line is the chalked or painted line dividing the End zone from the field of play in Canadian football and American football. The "sidelines" is a term commonly used to define the white or colored lines which mark the outer boundaries of a sports field It is bordered on all sides by a white line indicating its beginning and end points.

Scoring

A team scores a touchdown by entering their opponent's end zone while carrying the ball or catching the ball while being within the end zone. A touchdown is the primary method of scoring in American and Canadian football. If the ball is carried by an offensive player, across the goal line, it is considered a score as soon as the ball crosses the imaginary vertical plane of the goal line, between the two sidelines. In addition, a two-point conversion may be scored after a touchdown by similar means. American and Canadian football, a team may try to score a two-point conversion instead of an Extra point immediately after it scores a Touchdown

The goal post

The location of a goal post differs from league to league, but it is always within the boundaries of the end zone. In earlier football games (both professional and collegiate), the goal post began at the goal line, and was usually an H-shaped bar. Nowadays, almost all goal posts are T-shaped, and reside at the back line of the end zone.

Decoration

Most professional teams have their logo and/or team name painted on the surface of the end zone, with team colors filling the background. A logo ( Greek el λογότυπος = el-Latn logotypos is a graphical element ( Ideogram, Symbol, Emblem, Icon, Sign) Many championship games at college and professional level are commemorated by the names of the opposing teams each being painted in one of the opposite end zones.

Size

The end zone in Canadian football is 20 yards long by 60 yards wide, where the end zone in American football is 10 yards long by 53⅓ yards wide (Canadian football is played on a longer & wider field). The end zone stretches from pylon to pylon on an American football field.

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