Hello Jay, I may not know the American Football but I can share with you an example of an FF and SS relationships in project management.
1. FF relationship is actually and simply used when we want two tasks to finish at the same time. ie: You would ideally want all the food to be somehow ready for eating at the same time. Of course, we are not including Entree, Main Meal and Dessert. I am referring to for instance Main Meal preparation Project. Entree and dessert would consist of its own sets of tasks which can also be defined as FF depending on whether you want to serve them at the same time.
2. SS relationships are best remembered from their names. Start To Start. In this case we want two tasks to start at the same time. In other words, Task 2 cannot start until Task 1 starts. You can also say, that until Tasks 1 starts, Tasks 2 cannot start. For instance, during a painting project, as you start painting work in the first room, you may want to start hanging wall papers in the second room. You don't want to start working in second room until the work in room 1 is started. You decided to start at the same time.
Hope this helps.