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NFL

American  
  1. National Football League.


NFL British  

abbreviation

  1. National Football League

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Just a few of the great USC quarterbacks who went on to have NFL careers, yet never won a Super Bowl.

From Los Angeles Times

The worst of it came late in the carousel, when defensive line coach Eric Henderson elected to return to the NFL, departing for the same position with the Washington Commanders.

From Los Angeles Times

Two life-size replicas of Argentina’s Lionel Messi and Brazil’s Marta Vieira da Silva hang from the ceiling, the first of their kind for the artist, who has done miniatures of NBA legend Kobe Bryant and NFL star Patrick Mahomes.

From Los Angeles Times

Kim, watched by her boyfriend, NFL star Myles Garrett, and US rapper Snoop Dogg, appeared to be on the brink of becoming the first snowboarder in history to win three Olympic golds at consecutive Games after posting her score of 88.00 in her first run.

From Barron's

In Danny Funt’s “Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling,” that includes the commissioners of the MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL, as well as the top executives at the sportsbooks FanDuel and DraftKings, which control three-quarters of the $150 billion yearly sports betting market.

From The Wall Street Journal