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American Football Movies
Movies from The Shelf connected to American Football.
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American Football
Safety
Safety uses an extraordinary family emergency to ask an ordinary but consequential question about college sport: what should an athletic department do when an…
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American Football
Brian Banks
Brian Banks tells the true story of a high school football star whose future was destroyed by a false accusation. Wrongly convicted at 17,…
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Paper Lion
Paper Lion follows writer George Plimpton as he joins the Detroit Lions' training camp posing as a rookie quarterback, so he can write about…
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American Football
Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?
Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL? tells the story of the United States Football League, a spring league that challenged the NFL in the…
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American Football
League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis
League of Denial examines how the NFL responded to mounting evidence that football could cause long-term brain damage. The PBS Frontline documentary, directed by…
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Little Giants
Becky O'Shea is a better football player than several boys on her town's youth team. Her uncle, the celebrated former player who coaches it,…
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American Football
Untold: The Testimony of Vince Young
Untold: The Testimony of Vince Young examines the distance between becoming a sporting symbol and being able to live with the expectations that follow.…
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American Football
Gridiron Gang
About American Football
Looking to learn more about a career or work involving American football? You’ve come to the right place.
What is this sport about?
American football is a great sport and is extremely popular. Particularly in North America, there are many ways the sport pervades culture from a gym activity in school to high school to college and university to professional to international.
h3>Why do we have a section dedicated to this sport?
It is actually one of the most popular sports in the world but is also one of the most competitive.
Through powerful interviews with people working in football in various roles, we let you discover the answers to your questions from successful people.
On this page, you will find out how to get a career in football and how to get started in a job and building a career involving American football.
So, what’s next?
You can also access content from sport pros working for American football organizations on the business side of sport.
Or just go ahead and click out of this pop-up. In doing so, you will discover how work and careers on the player side of American football look.
