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This category is for German sportspeople who play American football. Pages in category "German players of American football" The following 77 pages are in this category, out of 77 total.
He was a placekicker in the American Football League (AFL) and the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons. He played for the Kansas City Chiefs (1969), the Cincinnati Bengals (1969–1974) and the Philadelphia Eagles (1975–1977). Mühlmann was born in Dortmund, Germany. After high school, he worked as a bricklayer and part-time ...
With the NFL’s first-ever regular-season game in Germany on Sunday, here’s a look at some of the German born-and-raised players who have made an impact.
At least nine foreign-born players played in the inaugural 1920 NFL season. [6] These included: German brothers John Nesser and Phil Nesser for the Columbus Panhandles.They were part of the Nesser Brothers, one of American football's most famous families of the early 20th century.
In total, 951 players have represented the Germany national team. This list covers players with twenty or more caps for the national team organised by the German Football Association, including West Germany. The players are initially ordered by number of caps (in descending order), then by alphabetical order of surname.
The Germany national American football team, nicknamed the Men in Black, is the official American football senior national team of Germany. They are organized by the American Football Verband Deutschland (AFVD). They get their players from teams of the German Football League (GFL).
Ron-Robert Zieler was the first German goalkeeper to be sent off, on 15 August 2012 against Argentina. The most players to be sent off in a single Germany match is three, against Uruguay on 3 June 1928: the German players Hans Kalb and Richard Hofmann were dismissed, in addition to the Uruguayan José Nasazzi.
The CFL and NFL competed for the same player pool in their earlier years before the CFL settled into a de facto (and from time to time formal) developmental role to its American counterpart. Dozens of professional players move between these codes' top professional leagues every year, making any attempt at a list incomplete at best.