How the greatest game in football history looks 50 years later, through the eyes of a modern NFL head coach

A hundred years ago, the National Football League curtailed on-field deaths and unnecessary brutality with a game-changing set of rules. It's time to institute some new ones.

Fathers and sons have bonded over football games for generations, but today it's harder for parents to ignore the growing concerns surrounding the sport.

At least half of black football players on the top-10 teams won’t graduate within six years of enrolling.

Born 100 years ago today, the University of Alabama legend was the greatest college football coach ever—and he still influences every level of the sport.

Shortly after we moved in together, my boyfriend's experiences in Afghanistan began affecting me in strange and terrifying ways.

The coach as general. The players as gladiators. Ed Sabol and his son, Steve, have spent the past half century at NFL Films, inventing the tropes of modern football. Color, slow motion, ubiquitous cameras and microphones, the omniscient narrator invoking the language of war—the Sabols pioneered all of this and, in so doing, helped make football the national game.

Declining participation has led some high schools to cancel their football seasons, and players aren't the only ones feeling the loss.