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 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 ...

In a recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers examined the association between longevity and a profession playing American football while ...