After a lengthy investigation conducted by the National Football League's security department, the league alleged on March 2, 2012 that 22 to 27 defensive players on the New Orleans Saints maintained a " pay for performance " program that included " bounty " payments administered by then-defensive coordinator Gregg Williams during the 2009, 2010 and 2011 seasons.

ABC's NFL program, Monday Night Football, happened to be celebrating its 15th season in 1984.

The film's premiere broke records for the network ; with 17. 2 million viewers, it displaced an edition of Monday Night Football as the highest-rated basic cable program of all time, the highest-rated program of Summer 2007 on both broadcast and cable, and the highest-rated premiere of a made-for-cable movie.

High School Musical 2 is currently the most successful DCOM in popularity and awards, setting a cable record for most viewers of a basic cable program, when its August 2007 debut scored 17. 2 million, a record that stood until the December 3, 2007 Monday Night Football matchup between the New England Patriots and Baltimore Ravens on corporate sibling ESPN surpassed it with 17. 5 million viewers ( it still remains the most-watched scripted program in cable television history ).

On November 2, 2006, Western Kentucky's Board of Regents approved a proposal by the school's president to upgrade the football program to the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ; formerly Division I-A ).

It has also garnered considerable national attention from its recent success in these sports: in particular, three-time Division I NCAA Football champion Appalachian State Mountaineers, who stunned the fifth-ranked Michigan Wolverines 34 – 32 on September 1, 2007 ; and from the Davidson Wildcats, who reached the Elite Eight in the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament by upsetting power programs Gonzaga ( a mid-major school which became a power program in the 2000s ), Georgetown and Wisconsin.

* McFarlane received the National Football League's Artist of the Year award for 2005, for his work on program covers for the Baltimore Ravens.

The stadium had served as home of the Stetson University Hatters football team before the school discontinued its football program in the early 1960s, and will once again host Hatters football when Stetson joins the Pioneer Football League in 2013.

The band program has featured two Jazz Ensembles, two Concert Bands ; the Wind Ensemble and Concert Band, a voluntary Marching Band, known as the Sandwich Renegade Regiment, a Pep Band, and a Football Marching Band.

The school is known statewide for its football program which competed in ten state championships between 1984 – 2004, winning six 1A State Football Titles.

The Malden Green Wave Football program competed in the state playoffs in 2010 and the boys baseball team were conference regular season champions and won a district title for the first time in 31 years in 2011.

The township has individual organizations that run each youth sports program, including Little League Baseball ( WMLL ), Police Athletic League ( PAL ) Basketball, PAL Soccer, West Milford-Star Athletics Cheerleading, Midget Football Association ( WMMFA ) Football, WMMFA Cheerleading, Amateur Baseball Association ( WMABA ) Baseball, and Girls Softball Association softball ( WMGSA ).

Led by Wisconsin Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame inductee Alex Hilber, the program regained the success that they experienced under longtime head coaches Ray Dunn and Jack Omer.

McGuire is the current president of the Collingwood Football Club and Melbourne Stars Twenty20 cricket franchise, and the current host of Channel Nine program Millionaire Hot Seat and Million Dollar Money Drop Australia.

Like some other smaller colleges, Gonzaga's football program ended in the Fall of 1941, just before the U. S. entry into World War II, but not before producing two Pro Football Hall of Famers: Tony Canadeo ' 41 of the Green Bay Packers, and Ray Flaherty ' 26, head coach of the Washington Redskins.

The CFL survived into 1997 and was buoyed by a new television deal with The Sports Network which, along with the launch of its popular Friday Night Football program, has been credited with saving the league.

Student attendance of Wake Forest Football and Basketball games is high, in part due to the program known as " Screamin ' Demons.

Wright presented Football Behind Bars, a reality TV series aired on Sky1 about his program to socialize young men incarcerated at Portland Young Offenders Institution in Dorset by organizing them in a football academy.

There was a games library called FUNLIB that contained games like Star Trek, Football, Hangman, Coffee, Grand Prix, and a status demo program called STDEMO that graphically displayed currently running programs.

The Varsity Football program also won Section III Titles from 1987-1990, and in 1993.

* There was a games library called FUNLIB that contained games like Star Trek, Football, Hangman, Coffee, Grand Prix, and a Biorhythm program.

The American Football League ( AFL ) was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League ( NFL ) merged with it.

For the centenary of the VFL / AFL in 1996, the Australian Football Hall of Fame was established.

A reserves team has played in the Northern Conference of the North East Australian Football League since the competition was established in 2011.

Κόρινθος ), established in 1999 after the merger of Pankorinthian Football Club ( Παγκορινθιακός ) and Corinth Football Club ( Κόρινθος ).

And also away from the world of Football there are a number of established fanzines, for example Rugby League has such notable publications as Who The Hell Was St. George Anyway?

The Geelong Football Club was formally established at a meeting held in the Victoria Hotel on 18 July 1859.

Football is the most popular sport in Mecca, the city hosting some of the oldest sport clubs in Saudi Arabia such as, Al-Wahda FC ( established in 1945 ).

Founding father of the NMFC. The North Melbourne Football Club arose from lowly origins in 1869, purportedly established to satisfy the needs of local cricketers who were keen to keep themselves fit over the winter months.

In 1991, Eagles Fly for Leukemia soared higher and became established as a free-standing non-profit organization, outside of the Eagles Football Club.

The San Diego Chargers were established with seven other American Football League teams in 1959.

* May 21 – The International Federation of Association Football, FIFA, is established.

That year, North Melbourne club CEO Greg Miller met with Sydney's football department to discuss the transfer to North Melbourne Football Club of John Longmire, already an established key position player.

Their case was ultimately dismissed on May 30, 1984, by which time the owners had already established the Tampa Bay Bandits in the next professional league, the United States Football League ( which incidentally filed their own, more famous antitrust suit against the NFL in 1986 ).

Two WFL alumni made it to the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Larry Csonka and Paul Warfield ( although both were already established stars in the NFL before joining the WFL.

The USFL was conceived in 1965 by New Orleans, Louisiana, businessman David Dixon, who saw a market for a football league which would play while the established National Football League was in its off-season.

The All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ) was a professional American football league that challenged the established National Football League ( NFL ) from 1946 to 1949.

The Australian Football League ( which was then known as the Victorian Football League ) was the first league to introduce regular finals when the league was established in 1897.

The Collingwood Football Club was established on 12 February 1892.

The town also has two Australian rules football clubs ; Broome Bulls Football Club ( established 1949 ) and the Broome Saints competing in the West Kimberley Football Association with games played at Haynes Oval.

In Canadian football ( and, until 1998, the National Football League ), the drop kick can be taken from any point on the field, unlike placekicks, which must be attempted behind the line of scrimmage.

He played for the Romanian national team in three World Cups in 1990, 1994 and 1998, as well as in three European Football Championships in 1984, 1996 and 2000.

Four years later, after the 1998 World Cup, Hagi decided to retire from the national team, only to change his mind after a few months and play at the 2000 European Football Championship, during which he was sent off in the quarter-final loss against Italy.

* Another City: A Week in the Life of Bath's Football Club ( 1998 )

Super Bowl XXXIII was an American football game between the American Football Conference ( AFC ) champion Denver Broncos and the National Football Conference ( NFC ) champion Atlanta Falcons to decide the National Football League ( NFL ) champion for the 1998 season.

Blatter's 2002 candidacy has been marked with rumours of financial irregularities and backroom dealings, culminating with direct accusations of bribery, by a third party, made in the British press by Farra Ado, vice-president of the Confederation of African Football and president of the Somali Football Federation, who claimed to have been offered $ 100, 000 to vote for Blatter in 1998.

The first European Football Championship played with the rule was in 1996 ; the first World Cup played with the rule was in 1998.

Also, Lionel Aldridge ( February 14, 1941 – February 12, 1998 ) who played American football professionally as a defensive end in the National Football League on the historic Green Bay Packers teams of the sixties.

In 1998, Bill Snyder at Kansas State was recognized as the National Coach of the Year by the Associated Press, the Walter Camp Football Foundation, and was awarded the Bear Bryant Award and the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award.

He was also a finalist for the Bear Bryant Award in 1993 and 1995, a finalist for the Football News National Coach of the Year Award in 1995 and 1998, and a finalist for the Kodak / AFCA National Coach of the Year Award in 1993 and 1998.

* Kenneth Dement, a football player and attorney who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1998, previously played for the Sikeston High School football team.

* Nash, Noel, ed., The Gainesville Sun Presents The Greatest Moments in Florida Gators Football, Sports Publishing, Inc., Champaign, Illinois ( 1998 ).

On 29 October 1998, McGuire was elected by the vote of the members as president of Collingwood Football Club, an Australian Rules Football club which was then in financial and on-field difficulties.

* 1998 Football League 100 Legends

In 1998, the Football League, as part of its centenary season celebrations, included Cantona on its list of 100 League Legends.

* Michael Jackson ( wide receiver ) ( born 1969 ), National Football League wide receiver, 1991 – 1998

The Fitzroy Football Club Ltd came out of administration after the merger of its AFL playing operations in late 1998.

Nakata began his professional career in 1995 and won the Asian Football Confederation Player of the Year award in 1997 and 1998, the Scudetto with A. S. Roma in 2001, played for Japan in three FIFA World Cup tournaments ( 1998, 2002 and 2006 ) and played in the Olympics twice ( 1996 and 2000 ).