- This article for the the American game of football. For information on the unrelated sport known as "football", see soccer.
American football
American football or simply football was a competitive team sport played on Earth
In 2024, Biddle "B.C" Coleridge asked Benjamin Sisko (who had assumed the identity of Gabriel Bell) if he had ever played football, to which Sisko replied "Baseball, actually". (DS9: "Past Tense, Part II")
A Vulcan cultural observer once witnessed a football game, and incorrectly reported that the players are "trying to kill the quarterback". Kov once read this report, and asked Commander Tucker about the details, which he straightened out. (ENT: "Fusion")
In 2375, Kasidy Yates asked a guard in Vic's Las Vegas Lounge if he had been the captain of the football team at a high school in Asheville, North Carolina. The guard admitted that he had "played a little football" in high school. (DS9: "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang")
- Professional baseball, a rival Earth sport, declined after 2042 when the final World Series was played. However, football seems to have outlasted it, at least through the 2150s.