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  1. American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

  2. American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, [nb 1] is a team sport. It is played by two teams with 11 players on each side. American football is played with a ball with pointed ends. Points are scored in many ways, usually by one team getting the ball into the end zone of the other team.

  3. The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).

  4. Prehistory of American football. In 1911, influential American football historian Parke H. Davis wrote an early history of the game of football, tracing the sport's origins to ancient times: abundant evidence may be marshalled to prove that this is the oldest outdoor game in existence.

  5. American football rules. The Tennessee Titans and the Houston Texans in formation before a play in October 2005. Gameplay in American football consists of a series of downs, individual plays of short duration, outside of which the ball is or is not in play.

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