Several NFL players who protested during the US national anthem before pre-season games have been criticised by President Donald Trump. Ex-49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was the first to protest in 2016 and some players raised a fist and others kneeled at three games on Thursday. The NFL says plans to fine players for anthem protests have been put on hold.

Mark Leibovich spent years digging under the skin of Washington, D.C.’s power brokers. When he turned his attention to the world of pro football for a new book, he found an awfully familiar set of characters.

A new study out of Northern Illinois University appears to confirm what some likely suspected—that the “Take a Knee” movement in the NFL was galvanized by its most prominent detractor, President Donald Trump. The movement began during the 2016 preseason when, in a protest against racial injustice, San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat down during the national anthem. A few games later, after consulting with a fellow NFL player who is a military veteran, he changed his protest to taking a knee.

When you think of what NFL players eat, you might imagine hulking athletes tearing into juicy steaks and scarfing fattening food. Perhaps it's not so far from the truth: ESPN recently reported it takes nearly 600 pounds of beef to feed the Buffalo Bills for a week, and that's not even counting chicken (700 pounds) and fish.

After two consecutive trips to the playoffs on the back of statistically solid years in a fairly conservative and pedestrian offense, it looks like the Bengals are about to open things up. From a fantasy football standpoint, Cincinnati quarterback Andy Dalton stands to gain the most from them doing so.

Aaron Hernandez, charged with one murder and suspected in others, had just gotten over his anger at his father’s untimely death and signed a contract with the New England Patriots when his mother was stabbed. As Hernandez faces murder charges, Michael Daly on his father’s untimely death and mother’s stabbing.

Two former players describe the struggle of growing up closeted in the world of football

Austen Lane’s first-person account of the pain, self-doubt and uncertainty that comes with losing your job in the NFL.

Cowboys Stadium is dead. Today it was announced that, effective immediately, the home turf of one of the NFL's most storied teams has been renamed AT&T Stadium. It's rumored to be a multimillion-dollar deal, but neither side is putting an exact figure on the sponsorship.

With a visual redesign from Nike the Jacksonville Jaguars join a growing list of sports teams that are trying on major uniform overhauls

It has been an ugly offseason for the league.

That is 20 sack, 20 tackles for loss, and 20 batted balls. No one in the history of the NFL has ever done that. Talking with CBS Sports Senior NFL Columnist Pete Prisco, Watt called the never before achieved club “the football triple crown.”

What an idiot.

With the start of a new football season comes the renewal of the debate over the Redskins' controversial name. Writer Lakshmi Gandhi takes us through the convoluted history of the word "redskin."

Federal investigations, millions in political donations, brain trauma denial? All in a day's work for football's money men.

After Google supremo Larry Page and YouTube content chief Robert Kynci powwowed with NFL boss Roger Goodall late last August there was speculation that Google/YouTube would snatch NFL’s Sunday Ticket package away from DirecTV. That deal comes due after the 2014 season. Here’s why Google should just do it.

With a first-of-its-kind deal, the NFL will be sending out video of game highlights, near-instant replays, and analysis in promoted tweets -- giving Twitter a coveted asset rivals like Facebook won't have.

President Barack Obama says he would "think about changing" the Washington Redskins' name if he owned the football team as he waded into the controversy involving a word that many consider offensive to Native Americans.

The NFL‘s best fans are being thanked for their team loyalty with fees that grant the payer nothing more than the privilege of … being allowed to pay for seats to the game. Minnesota Vikings fans, facing fees of up to $10,000 per seat, are the latest example.

It is breast cancer awareness month and the NFL is once again covered in pink. Unfortunately, very little money is going towards cancer research.

The welfare kings of the NFL are laughing all the way to the bank, and you’re not in on the joke.

Poor Michael Vick. His annoying hamstring injury has him on the Philadelphia Eagles bench, confined to watching Nick Foles run the offense. And now we find out that the dark cloud that began hovering over him years ago – the one that followed a prison term for his part in a dog-fighting ring – has barely budged.

The Washington Redskins have been on the defensive much of the year over the team's racial slur of a name. Prominent sportswriters have stopped using the name in their stories; politicians have threatened to force the team to change it; and even President Obama waded into the debate, saying he would consider going with a less eyebrow-raising moniker were he the team's owner.

Or should I say lucky catch?

Could the Dolphins’ suspension of Richie Incognito change the culture of pro football?

Currently, Washington, DC's pro football team, the [Redacted], has the distinction of being the only team in the NFL whose name is a racial slur. A little more than 50 years ago, it had another unfortunate distinction: It was the last remaining all-white team in the league.

When Richie Incognito was suspended from the Miami Dolphins last week under allegations of bullying teammate Jonathan Martin, most of his teammates came to his defense, claiming that Incognito's actions stemmed out of football tradition.

An NFL player's empty home. A massive teenage party. A tailor-made story of social-media shaming and a former star wronged. Until you dig deeper, that is.

Before the street here was paved and running water taken for granted, a group of Oneida Indians stood along a dirt road and watched as one of the donated trailers that made up their community burned. Inside, two of their members lay dying. Outside, frantic calls for help went unanswered.

What can the N.F.L. do to make fans feel better about football?

The National Football League, a multibillion-dollar commercial juggernaut, presides over America's indisputable national pastime. But the NFL is under assault as thousands of former players and a host of scientists claim the league has covered up how football inflicted long-term brain injuries on many players. In this special investigation, FRONTLINE reveals the hidden story of the NFL and brain injuries,

The NFL is a non-profit organization. A non-profit that pays its top five executives $60 million annually. A non-profit organization that sucks in public subsidies by the billions, then patting itself in the back when it returns a few hundred thousand back to community groups.

A little snow coming down in Philadelphia!

The last-place Washington Redskins got their doors blown off by the Kansas City Chiefs today. It was 38-10 at halftime. Combine that with some awful weather, and you have a recipe for fans leaving at halftime.

Eight former pro football players learned this year that they have signs of a degenerative brain disorder called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a condition linked to depression, dementia, and memory loss. These somber findings were uncovered using a new method of brain imaging that, for the first time, enables researchers to spot signs of the condition in the living brain. Previously CTE could only be identified after a victim died.