The most common blitzes are linebacker blitzes. Safety blitzes, when a safety (usually the free safety) is sent, and corner blitzes, where a cornerback is sent, are less common. Sending a defensive back on a blitz is even more risky than a linebacker blitz, as it removes a primary pass defender from the coverage scheme.
Blitz (Americanfootball), a defensive maneuver in Americanfootball
In English, blitz is also used as a verb, meaning to attack something rapidly, usually in a bathetic sense, as with ' nuke ' or 'exterminate', i.e.
The term Blitz (literal translation: lightning) is used in the German language for "extraordinary": like "blitzschnell" for extraordinarily fast, "blitzsauber" for extraordinarily clean, "blitzgescheit" for extraordinarily smart.
Americanfootball, known in the United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that rewards players' speed, agility, skill, tactics, and brute strength as they run and throw a ball, and block, tackle, and outrun each other, trying to force the ball further into their opponent's territory and ultimately into the endzone.
However, both of these games have their origins in varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid- 19th century, and Americanfootball is directly descended from rugby football, usually known simply as "Rugby".
Football is also occasionally used by followers of the sports of Rugby Union, Rugby League, Gaelic Football and Australian Rules Football to refer to their sport.
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