Jim Thorpe was the first president of the NFL, then called the American Professional Football Association. Thorpe was known as one of the greatest athletes of his generation. He served as the ...

The Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers kicked off professional American football's first game of ... the song in its games this season. Getty Images NFL Spokesman Brian McCarthy told The ...

The practice of paying players was formalized in 1920 with the creation of the American Professional Football Association. Two years later, it was renamed the National Football League. William ...

The origin of American football is surprisingly complex, but here’s the abridged version: professional football ... fields or blue Chase bank fields. images from Joel Rottman’s “slingshot ...

For the fourth consecutive year, Michigan football has produced an unanimous All-American. The latest is defensive tackle Mason Graham, who has earned first team selections from the Walter Camp ...

The Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers kicked off professional American football's first game of ... Image source, Getty Images NFL Spokesman Brian McCarthy told The New York Times that ...