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Borregos Salvajes Monterrey
The Borregos Salvajes Monterrey (English: ''Monterrey Wild Rams'') team represents the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (variously Tec de Monterrey or ITESM) in the sport of American football. The Borregos Salvajes are one of the most successful programs in Mexico, having won 15 National Titles, including five back to back from 2004 to 2008, being the only team to achieve such fate. From 2020, the team competes in the Conferencia Jacinto Licea of the ONEFA. History American football was the first sport which was practiced in this institution. For more than 50 years, ITESM American football team has had remarkable performance and has given recognition to its undergraduate and graduate students. The tradition of practicing this sport at the ITESM began back then in 1945 when the institution assigned to Alexander Solis Carranco, who was an American football player and trainer, the task of creating and training an American football squad. The training began wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estadio Borregos
Estadio Borregos, also referred to as Estadio Banorte for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in Monterrey, Mexico. It is the home stadium for the college football team Borregos Salvajes Monterrey of the ONEFA and the professional American football team Fundidores de Monterrey from the Liga de Fútbol Americano Profesional. The stadium was inaugurated in April 2019 and seats 10,057 spectators. In March 2021, Mexican bank Banorte was announced as the stadiums's main sponsor. History Following the demolition of the Estadio Tecnológico in 2017, after their main tenants, C.F. Monterrey moved to the Estadio BBVA, the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM), owner and operator of the stadium, decided to built a new stadium with smaller capacity to host their sports teams, mainly the American football and association football squads. The stadium broke ground in 2017 and was inaugurated on 30 April 2019 with an event that involved the student community ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tackle (gridiron Football Position)
Tackle is a playing position in gridiron football. Historically, in the one-platoon system prevalent in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a tackle played on both offense and defense. In the modern system of specialized units, offensive tackle and defensive tackle are separate positions, and the stand-alone term "tackle" refers to the offensive tackle position only. The offensive tackle (OT, T) is a position on the offensive line, left and right. Like other offensive linemen, their job is to block: to physically keep defenders away from the offensive player who has the football and enable him to advance the football and eventually score a touchdown. The term "tackle" is a vestige of an earlier era of football in which the same players played both offense and defense. A tackle is the strong position on the offensive line. They power their blocks with quick steps and maneuverability. The tackles are mostly in charge of the outside protection. Usually they defend a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Alarcón
Isaac Alarcón García (born July 27, 1998) is a Mexican professional American football defensive tackle for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) and joined the Cowboys in 2020 as a part of the league's International Player Pathway Program. Early years Alarcón first started playing football at age 14 years old at Club Pumas, a youth football club, then attended the UANL High School No. 9 in Monterrey, Mexico. He accepted a football scholarship from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM). He played as a right and left tackle. In 2019, he contributed to ITESM winning the Mexican college football national championship. In 2016, he was on the Mexico national team that earned a bronze medal in the U19 World Championship in China. Professional career Alarcón was allocated to the Dallas Cowboys on April 27, 2020. He is part of the NFL's Internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arizona Cardinals
The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The Cardinals compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) West division, and play their home games at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, a suburb northwest of Phoenix. The team was established in Chicago in 1898 as the Morgan Athletic Club, and joined the NFL as a charter member on September 17, 1920. The Cardinals are the oldest continuously run professional football franchise in the United States, as well as one of only two NFL charter member franchises still in operation since the league's founding, the other also from Chicago, the Chicago Bears (the Green Bay Packers were an independent team and did not join the NFL until a year after its creation in 1921). The team moved to St. Louis in and played there until . The team in St. Louis was commonly referred to as the "Football Cardinals", the "Gridbirds" or the "Big Red" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guard (gridiron Football)
In gridiron football, a guard (G), otherwise known as an offensive guard (OG), is a player who lines up between the center (American football), center and the offensive tackle, tackles on the offensive line of a football team on the line of scrimmage used primarily for Blocking (American football), blocking. Right guards (RG) is the term for the guards on the right of the offensive line, while left guards (LG) are on the left side. Guards are to the right or left of the center. The guard's job is to protect the quarterback from the incoming defensive line, linemen during pass plays, as well as creating openings (holes) for the running backs to head through. Guards are automatically considered Eligible receiver, ineligible receivers, so they cannot intentionally touch a forward pass, unless it is to recover a fumble or is first touched by a defender or eligible receiver. Pulling guards Aside from speed blocking, a guard may also "Pulling (American football), pull"—backing o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolando Cantú
Rolando Roel Cantú (born February 25, 1981) is a Mexican former American football player for the Arizona Cardinals. He was the first Mexican football player trained in the Mexican collegiate system to become an active player in the National Football League. Today, he is a broadcaster and promoter of the Cardinals and NFL in Mexico and U.S. Spanish media, working to develop talent in Mexico with camps and clinics for young people. Early life Rolando Cantú was born on February 25, 1981 in Monterrey, Mexico, the youngest of seven children. The family moved to the border town of Reynosa when Cantú was young, and he attended grade school in the U.S. town of McAllen, Texas by being driven across the border every day. He grew up a fan of the Dallas Cowboys, watching games with his father on television as the NFL has begun broadcasting in the country. He played various sports including American football with neighborhood friends as well as Pop Warner, which Cantú says is taken serious ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 NFL Season
The 2021 NFL season was the 102nd season of the National Football League (NFL). The season was the first to feature a 17-game regular season schedule as the league expanded the season from 16 games. The regular season started on September 9, 2021, with defending Super Bowl LV champion Tampa Bay defeating Dallas in the NFL Kickoff Game. The regular season ended on January 9, 2022. The playoffs started on January 15 and concluded with Super Bowl LVI, the league's championship game, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, on February 13, with the Los Angeles Rams defeating Cincinnati. Player movement The 2021 NFL league year and trading period began on March 17. On March 15, teams were allowed to exercise options for 2021 on players with option clauses in their contracts, submit qualifying offers to their pending restricted free agents, and submit a Minimum Salary Tender to retain exclusive negotiating rights to their players with expiring 2020 contracts and fewer than thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borregos Salvajes CEM
The Borregos Salvajes CEM (English: ''CEM Wild Rams''), or simply Borregos CEM, was an American football team representing the State of Mexico campus of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM). The Borregos Salvajes competed in the ONEFA and later in the Conferencia Premier CONADEIP. In 2016, ITESM authorities decided to merge its three Greater Mexico City college football programs (ITESM CCM, ITESM CEM and ITESM Santa Fe) into one new team named Borregos Salvajes México, thus, ending the Borregos CEM program. During its existence, the team won two national championships in 2000 and 2003. History Beginnings (1994–1996) The precedent of the Liga Mayor team was established in 1979 in the ITESM Campus Estado de México (CEM). In 1994, the Borregos CEM made their debut in the ONEFA Liga Mayor. The team started competing in the Conferencia Nacional, which was the second tier of college football in Mexico. On their first season, led by coach Rafael Duk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Águilas Blancas
Águilas Blancas (), also known as Politécnico when representing the entirety of National Polytechnic Institute, founded as Águilas Blancas de la ESCA- ESIQIE, is a Mexican college football team based in the Casco de Santo Tomas neighborhood of Mexico City, Mexico. ''Águilas Blancas'' participate in the Green Conference as part of the National Student Organization of American Football (ONEFA). It is one of the most successful college football teams in Mexico having won five national championships throughout their history. They maintain a fierce rivalry with teams from the National Autonomous University of Mexico particularly with its Coyoacán based team from Ciudad Universitaria, Pumas Dorados de la UNAM. The team plays in Estadio Wilfrido Massieu, and Enrique Zárate is the head coach since 2014. History This squad is the heir of the Burros Blancos IPN that was one of the oldest institution with an ancient American football tradition in Mexico (the other and their main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cóndores UNAM
The Cóndores UNAM (English: ''UNAM Condors''), was one of the three American football teams that represented the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) from 1970 to 1997. The Cóndores competed in the ONEFA and won 10 National Championships, including four in a row from 1983 to 1986. History Background American football was first played in the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1927, when several students that spent some time in American schools and have played the sport returned to Mexico. The team's first name was Osos (Bears) and navy blue and gold were chosen as the colors, inspired by the colors of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. The team's nickname was later changed to Horda Dorada (Golden Horde) and in 1946 head coach Roberto "Tapatío" Méndez chose the Pumas nickname, which since then has been used for all UNAM's representative sport teams, most notably the professional football team. From 1933 to 1967, the Pumas won thirty three National Champi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pieles Rojas IPN
''Skins'' ( es, Pieles, links=no) is a 2017 Spanish drama film directed by Eduardo Casanova. It was screened in the Panorama section at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. The film was produced by Pokeepsie Films and Nadie es Perfecto alongside The Other Side Films. Plot Laura A man named Simon gets a call from his wife saying that their son is born, but he stays at a brothel. A nude elder woman tells Simon that "people were born to suffer" and that he should not go see his child because he is a pedophile. The woman brings in a child named Laura. When Laura takes off the ribbon she reveals that she has skin over her eyes and sings a song. Simon then gives Laura two pink diamonds for eyes. 17 years later, Laura who is now in her 20s still works at the brothel. A waitress who works there who is in debt attempts to steal Laura's diamonds, but when someone comes in the room she puts them in her mouth and ends up swallowing them. Laura starts to panic because she cannot do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
