American football
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Summary
American football is a team sport[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of team sport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (42,932 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: gridiron football[3]
- Commons category: American football[4]
- Unicode character: 🏈[5]
- Country of origin: United States[6]
- Topic's main category: Category:American football[7]
- Commons gallery: American football[8]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:American Football[9]
- OpenStreetMap tag: sport=american_football[10]
- Described by source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[11]
- Short name: Football[12], football americano[13], American football[14]
- Maximum number of players: 22[15]
- Different from: Football[16]
- Duration: 60 minutes[17], 48 minutes[18]
- Uses: penalty flag[19], American football ball[20]
- Practiced by: American football player[21], American football coach[22]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[23]
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Works and Contributions
Things named for American football include Monday Night Football[24], a television series[25], founded in 1970[26], directed by Chet Forte[27] and NBC Sunday Night Football[28], a television program[29], directed by Drew Esocoff[30].
Why It Matters
American football has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 90 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]
Entities named for it include Monday Night Football[24], a television series[25], founded in 1970[26], directed by Chet Forte[27] and NBC Sunday Night Football[28], a television program[29], directed by Drew Esocoff[30].