American football

Summary

American football is a team sport^[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of team_sport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,501 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• American football's instance of is recorded as team sport^[3].
• American football is a type of gridiron football^[4].
• American football's Commons category is recorded as American football^[5].
• American football's Unicode character is recorded as 🏈^[6].
• American football's country of origin is recorded as United States^[7].
• American football's topic's main category is recorded as Category:American football^[8].
• American football's Commons gallery is recorded as American football^[9].
• American football's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:American Football^[10].
• American football's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as sport=american_football^[11].
• American football's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary^[12].
• American football's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en-us', 'text': 'Football'}^[13].
• American football's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'it', 'text': 'football americano'}^[14].
• American football's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'American football'}^[15].
• American football's maximum number of players is recorded as {'amount': '+22'}^[16].
• American football's different from is recorded as Football^[17].
• American football's different from is recorded as football^[18].
• American football's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q7727', 'amount': '+60'}^[19].
• American football's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q7727', 'amount': '+48'}^[20].
• American football's uses is recorded as penalty flag^[21].
• American football's uses is recorded as American football ball^[22].
• American football's practiced by is recorded as American football player^[23].
• American football's practiced by is recorded as American football coach^[24].
• American football's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[25].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for American football include NBC Sunday Night Football^[26], a television program^[27], directed by Drew Esocoff^[28] and Monday Night Football^[29], a television series^[30], founded in 1970^[31], directed by Chet Forte^[32].

Why It Matters

American football ranks in the top 6% of team_sport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,501 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[33] It is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[34]

Entities named for it include NBC Sunday Night Football^[26], a television program^[27], directed by Drew Esocoff^[28] and Monday Night Football^[29], a television series^[30], founded in 1970^[31], directed by Chet Forte^[32].