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NFL

American  
  1. National Football League.


NFL British  

abbreviation

  1. National Football League

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Former NFL MVP Matt Ryan left the show this offseason to become the president of football for his longtime former team, the Atlanta Falcons.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

The 2024-25 NFL season featured the most customer-friendly outcomes that online sportsbooks had ever seen; sportsbooks incurred hundreds in millions of dollars’ worth of losses after a string of overfavorable outcomes.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

Millions of houses, thousands of jets, every NFL and NBA team: Imagine the things a trillionaire could buy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

The 2024-25 NFL season featured the most “customer-friendly” outcomes that online sportsbooks had ever seen; sportsbooks incurred hundreds in millions of dollars worth of losses after a string of overfavorable outcomes.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

You could be a linebacker in the NFL.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

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