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The end zone is a term used in both Canadian football
Canadian football

Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played chiefly in Canada in which two teams of twelve players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide , attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area ....
 and American football
American football

American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play....
. The end zone is the area between the end line and goal line bounded by the sidelines
Sidelines

The "sidelines" is a term commonly used to define the white or colored lines which mark the outer boundaries of a sports field. American football sidelines, for example, mark the edge of the field....
. There are two end zones, each being on an opposite side of the field.






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The end zone is a term used in both Canadian football
Canadian football

Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played chiefly in Canada in which two teams of twelve players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide , attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area ....
 and American football
American football

American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play....
. The end zone is the area between the end line and goal line bounded by the sidelines
Sidelines

The "sidelines" is a term commonly used to define the white or colored lines which mark the outer boundaries of a sports field. American football sidelines, for example, mark the edge of the field....
. There are two end zones, each being on an opposite side of the field. It is bordered on all sides by a white line indicating its beginning and end points, with orange, square pylons placed at each of the four corners as a visual aid. Canadian rule books use the term goal area instead of end zone, but the latter term is the more common in colloquial Canadian English.

Scoring

A team scores a touchdown
Touchdown

A touchdown is the primary method of scoring in American football and Canadian football....
 by entering their opponent's end zone while carrying the ball or catching the ball while being within the end zone. 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
Plane (mathematics)

In mathematics, a plane is a curvature surface. Planes can arise as subspaces of some higher dimensional space, as with the walls of a room, or they may enjoy an independent existence in their own right, as in the setting of Euclidean geometry....
 of the goal line, between the two sidelines. A touchdown can also be scored if the player makes contact with one of the pylons by the sideline. In addition, a two-point conversion
Two-point conversion

In American football and Canadian football, a two-point conversion is a play a team attempts instead of kicking an extra point immediately after it scores a touchdown....
 may be scored after a touchdown by similar means.

The goal post

The location and dimensions 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 in the professional and collegiate levels are T-shaped, and reside at the front line of the end zone, by the goal line.

Decoration

Most professional and collegiate teams have their logo
Logo

A logo is a graphical element that, together with its logotype form a trademark or commercial brand. Typically, a logo's design is for immediate recognition....
, team name, or both painted on the surface of the end zone, with team colors filling the background. 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, while the end zone in American football is 10 yards long by 53? yards wide (Canadian football is played on a longer and wider field). The end zone stretches from pylon to pylon on an American football field.

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