The National Science Foundation (NSF) has teamed up with the educational arm of NBC News, NBC Learn, and with the National Football League (NFL) to release the Science of NFL Football—an informative 10-part video series that explores the science behind American football. Made especially for students and teachers, these videos are aligned to lesson plans and national state education standards (available via NSDL.org). The videos use the appeal of football to drive an understanding of complicated scientific concepts, such as Newton’s Three Laws of Motion, kinematics, projectile motion, the football science of the Pythagorean theorem, torque, center of mass and the unique shape of a football. Science of NFL Football illustrates how football players throw a spiraled pass, block an opponent, and score a touchdown. Students and teachers will see how the principles of science enable players to perform actions such as throwing a spiraled pass, blocking an opponent and scoring a touchdown. Current players and retirees participated in the video series and describe how scientific principles apply to their respective positions. This video series, together with Science of the Olympic Winter Games, has earned NBCOlympics.com and NBCLearn.com a Sports Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches in Sports Programming. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced the award on Monday, May the 2^nd, at the 32^nd Annual Sports Emmy® Awards in New York. Former NFL Saints running back and two-time Pro Bowl selection, Deuce McAllister participated in the Kinematics video shoot which analyzes the science of human motion through position, velocity and acceleration and will be in New Orleans on September 9 to premiere the video series on NBC’s TODAY show.