"Well, American football, which is what my brother played, starts off with two teams of eleven people each and two end zones on a field a hundred yards long," Gordon says. "The ball's shaped like a pointed oval, so it can be carried and kicked and thrown long distances. The object is to get the ball across the other team's end zone for as many points as possible, as many times as possible, before the timer runs out on the game. The other team's allowed to tackle you to keep you from getting the ball into their territory, so there's a lot of passing and running and tactics involved..."