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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 football team sports primarily played in the United States and Canada.
The Indoor Football League is an example of a prominent indoor league. [215] The Arena Football League, which was founded in 1987 and ceased operations in 2019, was one of the longest-lived indoor football leagues. [216] In 2004, the league was called "America's fifth major sport" by ESPN The Magazine. [217]
Teams during the 104th Grey Cup in 2016, the championship game of the Canadian Football League. In the United States and Canada, the term professional football (French: football professionnel) includes the professional forms of American and Canadian gridiron football. In common usage, it refers to former and existing major football leagues in ...
The early history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football.Both games have their origin in varieties of football played in Britain in the mid–19th century, in which a football is kicked at a goal or run over a line, which in turn were based on the varieties of English public school football games.
In the Canadian Football League, the clock is stopped while the officials place the ball, and then they whistle the game clock and play clock to begin in the last minutes of a half; whereas in the National Football League the clock remains running while the officials set the ball (dependent upon the result of the previous play—penalty ...
The history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football.Both games have their origin in multiple varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, in which a football is kicked at a goal or kicked over a line, which in turn were based on the varieties of English public school football games descending from medieval ...
An example of a fantasy football matchup hosted and scored on the ESPN Fantasy app. Fantasy football is a game in which the participants serve as owners and general managers of virtual gridiron football teams. The competitors select their rosters by participating in a draft in which all relevant National Football League (NFL) players are ...
The World Football League's football was a distinct orange color, said to be more visible during the night as most of that league's games would be played in the evenings. Prior to the merger, the American Football League 's balls, the J6V (or J6-V / "Cushion Control") and J5V (or J5-V) by Spalding were 1 ⁄ 4 in (0.64 cm) narrower and 1 ⁄ 4 ...