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 Brazil start participating in American football. Other traditional fixtures in the Brazilian sports lifestyle like volleyball and Formula One are slowly losing their fanbase to American football. Once the game transitioned from sand to grass, the popularity of American football jumped. Players are only asked to practice occasionally and women have been embraced into even the "full contact" leagues. Copacabana Beach is considered to be the birthplace of American football in Brazil; where 20 men played the first game of American football in Brazilian history. All American football games not done on the beach are played out in public parks and