American football (disambiguation)
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American football
, popularly called football in the United States, is a type of gridiron football.
American football may also refer to:
In sports:
In media:
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
, popularly called football in the United States, is a type of gridiron football.
American football may also refer to:
In sports:
- American football (ball)
- Soccer in the United StatesSoccer in the United StatesSoccer, fully known as association football,See the articles Football and Names for association football#North America for more detailed explanations of the differing names for soccer. has long been a popular sport in the United States...
, U.S. involvement in the sport known as football in most other countries- United States Soccer FederationUnited States Soccer FederationThe United States Soccer Federation is the official governing body of the sport of soccer in the United States. Its headquarters are located in Chicago, Illinois. It is a member of FIFA and is responsible for governing amateur and professional soccer, including the men's, women's, youth, futsal...
, the official governing body of U.S. soccer
- United States Soccer Federation
In media:
- American Football (band)American Football (band)American Football was an indie rock band from Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, active from 1997 to 2000. The band was formed by guitarist/bassist and singer Mike Kinsella and drummer Steve Lamos American Football was an indie rock band from Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, active from 1997 to 2000. The band...
, an American indie band - Touch Down Fever: American Football, a 1987 arcade game
- "American Football", a 1991 poem by Harold Pinter
See also
- American Football AssociationAmerican Football AssociationAmerican Football Association was the first attempt in the United States to form an organizing soccer body. It is best known for being the second oldest sports league to form, behind Major League Baseball in 1876, as well as being the oldest soccer league in the United States. The Association was...
, the first U.S. organizing soccer body, 1884-1925 - American Football Association (1979–1982), an American football league
- Canadian footballCanadian footballCanadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 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...
- Gridiron footballGridiron footballGridiron football , sometimes known as North American football, is an umbrella term for related codes of football primarily played in the United States and Canada. The predominant forms of gridiron football are American football and Canadian football...