Emmerian gridiron football
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Both types of fields are of virtually the same dimensions, although their regulation sizes are defined in separate units.
Emmerian gridiron football (generally called football in the U.R. and other countries where it is popular, or gridiron or Emmerian football in countries with a smaller national following) is a form of gridiron football played in the United Republic of Emmeria and elsewhere in Pardes. The origins of the sport, like other forms of gridiron football, lie in the development of rugby football in the 1880s followed by the revolutionary introduction of the forward pass in the early 1900s. Emmerian football is similar to other gridiron football codes like Anthoran football (like that played in the Anthoran Football League), although it is played on a 110-yd field with 15-yd endzones.
Emmerian football is the most popular sport in the United Republic of Emmeria, and the U.R.'s United Football League is generally considered the premier professional league of gridiron football in Pardes. In the United Republic, college football is also immensely popular. Emmerian football is arguably the most well followed version of gridiron football in Pardes, with a substantial following in Erucia (which contains 4 UFL teams), Anthor (in competition with Anthoran football), Kalenia, Belhavia, Eagleland, and others. After the UFL, the most prominent Emmerian football leagues globally are the Imperial Belhavian Football League in Belhavia, the Kalenian Football League in Kalenia, and the Eagleland Gridiron League in Eagleland. Although in some of these countries college football may also be popular, several instead utilize a hierarchy of professional leagues for player development and lower levels.
Globally, the sport is overseen by the International Federation of Gridiron Football (IFGF), which oversees all forms of the gridiron football game in Pardes. Uniquely, due to the nature of the development of the game surrounding the UFL, the IFGF is more heavily focused on promoting club competition as opposed to national teams; it currently organizes a postseason International Bowl Series, a series of exhibition games between champions of the premier national football leagues.