Arena football is a sport based upon American football. It is a proprietary game played indoors on a smaller field than American football, resulting in a faster and higher-scoring game. The sport was invented in 1986, and patented in 1990, by James F. Foster, a former executive of the United States Football League and the National Football League. Though not the only variant of indoor football, it is the most widely known, and the one on which mo...
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Arena football is a sport based upon American football. It is a proprietary game played indoors on a smaller field than American football, resulting in a faster and higher-scoring game. The sport was invented in 1986, and patented in 1990, by James F. Foster, a former executive of the United States Football League and the National Football League. Though not the only variant of indoor football, it is the most widely known, and the one on which most other forms of modern indoor football are at least partially based.
Two leagues have played under the official arena football rules: the Arena Football League, which played 22 seasons from 1987 through 2008 (and whose operations are currently suspended), and arenafootball2, which was founded in 2000 and broke up following the 2009 season. Arena Football 1, a confederation of former AFL and af2 teams that plans to begin play in 2010, will also presumably follow the official arena football rulebook.
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