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After...College Football: 1875The first game of intercollegiate football in the United States between two American colleges that most resembles today's game was between Tufts University and Harvard on June 4, 1875 at Jarvis Field in Cambridge, MassachusettsNFL: 1920The NFL formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing its name to the National Football League in 1922
Football has officially been played in the United States since November 6, 1869. However, it was played in schoolyards longer than that.
The National Football Team is the league for the professional football teams in the United States.
For college football recruiting historically the top states are in alphabetical order: California Florida Ohio Pennsylvania Texas
The NFL is only played in the United States. If you mean how many countries play American football, there are 52 countries registered with the International Federation of American Football as of 2010. It's only a well-known sport in the USA and Canada, although it enjoys a respectable following in the UK, Japan, and Germany.