Assertion: football | /r/CapableOf | become popular
Facets:
value: much as it had done
type: MANNER
value: following the 1958 nfl championship game
type: TEMPORAL
value: on a large scale
type: OTHER
value: increasingly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Football, in general, became increasingly popular following the 1958 NFL Championship game, a match between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants that is still referred to as the "Greatest Game Ever Played".
text: Women's football became popular on a large scale at the time of the First World War, when employment in heavy industry spurred the growth of the game, much as it had done for men fifty years earlier.