An avid sports fan, he also owned American Football team the Seattle Seahawks.

There is talk about an all- American football team playing the best college teams of the country.

The consortium is being led by the owner of the Miami Dolphins American Football team and the Gulf state of Qatar.

Now American football teams are using the book and the lessons learned from the All Blacks to turn around losing seasons.

Mr Malcolm Glazer, owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers American football team, did not say which stories he was referring to.

IT WAS the moment many an American schoolboy dreams of being offered a six figure contract by a leading American Football team.

Pressure from an online petition and media interest has led to an American football team canning its use of the Ka Mate haka.

Since then, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and a new stadium for the Cleveland Browns American football team have been built.

The club's American proprietors, the Glazer family, are well known in the United States as owners of American football team the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The demolition will make way for a new 65,000-seat state-of-the art stadium for the Minnesota Vikings American football team.

The hashtag ChangeTheName has been a popular way for Twitter users to express their displeasure with the American football team, the Washington Redskins.

They get quite caught up in the whole thing, says Mark McGrath, linesman with the Belfast Trojans - Northern Ireland's newest amateur American football team.

The charge was led by Philbert Soroquisara, who questioned why casino revenues were being used to sponsor professional baseball and American football teams in Phoenix.

This prompted a very thin, moderately intoxicated Londoner named Nona to ask me a question: "Does every American football team have a pirate-oriented nickname?"

The Cosmos ran out 4-1 winners in a match which marked the first time that a professional American football team has travelled to Cuba.