WordNet
n. football played for pay
Wikipedia
In the United States and Canada, the term professional football includes the professional forms of American and Canadian gridiron football. In common usage, it refers to former and existing major football leagues in either country. Currently (2015), there are multiple professional football leagues in North America: the three best known are the National Football League (NFL) and the Arena Football League (AFL) in the U.S. and the Canadian Football League (CFL) in Canada. The NFL has existed continuously since being so named in 1922.
Professional football may refer to:
- Professionalism in association football
- Professional football (gridiron)
Usage examples of "professional football".
It continued staring at the opto as it spilled the larger-than-life mayhem of professional football into the restaurant.
There were stories about my dad from his days as a professional football player with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the Canadian Football League.
If he hadn't wanted to become a SEAL, he would have had a serious future as a professional football linebacker.
The CH-53 Sea Stallion was loaded with two squads from the Football City Special Forces Rangers, an elite unit that was made up almost entirely of ex-professional football players who once earned their living playing the never-ending matches that made their home city so famous and successful.
His body wasn't quite up to the standards of professional football, but his mind certainly would have been.
The season during which Clarence Tresillian kept goal for Houndsditch Wednesday is destined to live long in the memory of followers of professional football.
They are preying on the secret fantasy of many American men, who imagine themselves running for a touchdown before thousands of screaming fans, when the hard fact is that professional football players are reared from high school to be professional athletes of abnormal size, and speed, and if a search were made across the entire country, probably not one person could be found who could make the Eagles' taxi squad.
Yet he approached his job like a professional football coach, tough, demanding, and unsmiling.
One was a huge black man who looked as if he might have played professional football.