american football

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Definition of american football in English Turkish dictionary: amerikan futbolu

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Definition of american football in English English dictionary: A game similar to rugby football in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball into each other's territory. Called football in the United States and Canada and American football elsewhere in the world; American football is a game similar to rugby that is played by two teams of eleven players using an oval-shaped ball. Players try to score points by carrying the ball to their opponents' end of the field, or by kicking it over a bar fixed between two posts; An American football is an oval-shaped ball used for playing American football. a game played in the US by two teams of eleven players, who carry, throw, or kick an oval ball American Equivalent: football; a term used by non-Americans to distinguish the popular U S sport of football from soccer which they also call football; a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays
American Football Conference: one of the two conferences in the National Football League (subdivided into the AFC-East, AFC-Central, and the AFC-West), AFC
American Football League: AFL, one of the two professional football leagues in the USA