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The National Gridiron League (NGL) was a proposed gridiron football league. In 2022, after three years of postponed seasons, the organization rebranded as the United Football League (UFL)., [1] prior to the current UFL (formed from the merger of the 2020s USFL and XFL leagues). In 2024, the NGL resurfaced to claim to be launching in 2025.
Gridiron football (/ ˈ ɡ r ɪ d aɪ. ər n / GRID-eye-ərn), [1] also known as North American football, [2] or in North America as simply football, is a family of team sports derived from rugby football (and football, by extension) primarily played in the United States and Canada.
The College Gridiron Showcase (CGS) is an independently operated annual post-season college football event hosted each January in Fort Worth, Texas. [1] The event consists of NFL draft prospects who have completed their eligibility in NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, and the NAIA. CGS also hosts the Pro Gridiron Showcase ...
A standard football game consists of four 15-minute quarters (12-minute quarters in high-school football and often shorter at lower levels, usually one minute per grade [e.g. 9-minute quarters for freshman games]), [6] with a 12-minute half-time intermission (30 minutes in the Super Bowl) after the second quarter in the NFL (college halftimes are 20 minutes; in high school the interval is 15 ...
According to 2017 study on brains of deceased gridiron football players, 99% of tested brains of NFL players, 88% of CFL players, 64% of semi-professional players, 91% of college football players, and 21% of high school football players had various stages of CTE. [13] Other common injuries include injuries of legs, arms and lower back. [14] [15 ...
The X-League Most Valuable Player award (X-League MVP) is an award given to the Japanese Gridiron football player who is considered most valuable to his team in the X-League. Started in 2012, the award was divided between the best player in each division until 2014 when one overall MVP was awarded.
On July 10, the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) said that 72 NFL players, or 2.5 percent of players on rosters had tested positive for COVID-19. [38] The NFL and its players' union decided in late July not to create a "bubble" of isolation around their players, unlike the NBA , the WNBA and the NHL .
The GridIron Master board is a scale model of a real football field (American football field and Canadian football field). It is a combination of the skill and strategy of football and chess that is for ages ten and up. [2] As of 2013, the average price for both the American and Canadian versions of the game is about $30. [3]