American football in the United States the Fall Experimental Football League played two seasons in 2014 and 2015). Two professional football leagues are pending launch: the Alliance of American Football is scheduled to debut in February 2019, while the XFL, a revamp of a league of the same name that played one season in 2001, is set to return in February 2020. There are several professional indoor football leagues, played at basketball-sized arenas. The oldest one is the Arena Football League, which had several teams co-owned by several NFL owners but is officially independent from the NFL. Indoor football leagues play by significantly different rules that
American football in the Netherlands teacher Guus Annokkee who would go on to be the founder and inaugural chairman of the NAFF (Nederlandse American Football Federatie). Koningferander's TV plea instigated the founding of the Netherlands' first domestic club: the Amsterdam Rams. The first game played by a Dutch American Football team was on Easter Sunday in 1981 when the Amsterdam Rams faced the Herne Tigers from Germany. A lack of any Dutch opponents forced the Rams to compete in the German Oberliga in the 1983 and 1984 season. This successful German adventure led the Rams to a 1984 victory in the Oberliga West Division. Meanwhile,