The mother of the man allegedly killed by a rising professional American Football player was overcome with emotion in court as a prosecutor showed the jury graphic photos of her son's body.

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 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 ...

but there was more football excitement on Sunday with the the American 7s Football League in action. The semi-professional league shows 7-on-7 football without helmets or hard shell pads.