American football

American Football, known simply as Football in the United States of America and Canada, is a human competitive team sport. Outside the United States and Canada the game is called American Football to differentiate it from soccer, which is often called football as well. In football, the object of the game is to move the ball, called a football into an opposing team's end zone, while preventing the opposing team from doing the same. The game was one of the most popular spectator sports in the United States.

While professional baseball died out on Earth by the 2040's, professional football continued to be played on Earth well into the 22nd century. At some point a cultural observer from Vulcan witnessed a football game and then reported that the other players were trying to kill the quarterback. The Vulcan Kov had read the report, and asked Charles Tucker about the game, Tucker corrected Kov's misconceptions about the game. (ENT episode Fusion).

As a young man, Fleet Captain Christopher Pike was the Captain of his high school's football team. (TOS novel Burning Dreams).