Football

Football is a wildly popular sport throughout both the United States and the Confederate States. It is far more popular than baseball. Most major cities in both countries are home to at least one professional football team, most of which are organized into regional leagues with the teams of neighboring cities.

Professional teams include the Philadelphia Barrels, the Los Angeles Dons, and the Seattle Sharks. Great professional players include Lou Gehrig, Hank Greenberg, and Jimmie Foxx.

Amateur football games are a wildly popular pastime throughout both countries. Many high schools have football teams; Armstrong Grimes was a star of his school's. In Toledo, Ohio, steelworkers and police officers played a game against each other in 1923 as a way of burying the hatchet after a number of brawls erupted between the two during a period of labor tensions which had disrupted the city for several years. Most famously, on Christmas Day 1914, US and CS soldiers played football games in an impromptu truce which broke out on every front of the Great War.

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