Even though I did not reach the National Football League, I sometimes think I got more from achieving that dream, without realizing it.

虽然我没有进入美国国家橄榄球联盟，但有时我认为我从实现梦想的过程中获得了更多，虽然我并没有实现它。

Let's make a bet on whether our national football team will win next season.

让我们打个赌吧，赌我们的国家足球队下个赛季是否会赢。

"You suspended Ray Rice after our video," a reporter from TMZ challenged National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell the other day.

几天前，TMZ 的一名记者向美国国家橄榄球联盟委员罗杰·古德尔发出质问：“你在我们发布视频后就把雷·赖斯停职了。”

He hopes to join the national football team.

他希望加入国家足球队。

America's National Football League provides an interesting example.

美国国家足球联盟是个有趣的例子。

Singapore's national football team currently is the ASEAN champions.

新加坡国家的足球队目前是东南亚国家联盟(asean)冠军。

It serves as the home of the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys.

它是美国国家橄榄球联盟达拉斯牛仔队的主场。

Spain's triumphant national football team has returned home from South Africa.

西班牙国家足球队从南非得胜荣归。

Last weekend National Football League teams began choosing players for the next season.

上周末国家足球联盟队开始为下一个赛季选拔队员。

Last month, John Madden announced his retirement as a National Football League broadcaster.

上个月，约翰·梅登宣布从国家足球联播音员的位置上退下来。

It aired unusually early, in August, to make way for NBC's National Football League telecast.

为了给NBC的全国橄榄球联赛让路，去年的艾美奖在八月举行，比以往都早。

Back in July, it looked as though the German national football team was heading for controversy.

回首七月份，看起来好像整个德国国家男子足球队引起争论。

Vincent Lombadi, former coach of the National Football League's Green Packers of the United states.

Vincent Lombadi美国全国橄榄球联赛的绿湾包装者队的前任教练。

That's an astonishing remark - and not just because the National Football League does, in fact, have pay caps.

这句话很令人震惊——不仅是因为国家足球联盟事实上有薪酬限制。

Today the Bundesliga has the highest match attendance statistics of any national football league in the world.

而今，德甲联赛已经是世界上观看比赛人数最多的国家级足球联赛。

That's an astonishing remark — and not just because the National Football League does, in fact, have pay caps.

这句话很令人震惊——不仅是因为国家足球联盟事实上有薪酬限制。

For most of its history, professional American football was played within a single National football League (NFL).

在其大部分的历史中，职业美式足球都是在一个联盟——国家美式足球联盟(nfl)中比赛。

By comparison, there are about 45 minutes of ads during the National Football League's much longer Super Bowl games.

通过比较，在国家足球联盟的广告时间有大约45分钟，比超级杯比赛要长很多。

More than half of the country's National Football League (NFL) teams have it, at least on their practice facilities.

尤其在美国——国家美式足球联盟(nfl)半数以上的球队都在使用这种草皮，至少其训练馆中会采用此技术。

These numbers gave him the chance to get a role in the Italian national football team and to sign a contract with Inter.

这样的表现给他带来了入选意大利国家队及加盟国际米兰俱乐部的机会。

For most US sports fans, of course, "football" means the gridiron game of the National football League and college teams.

对于大多数美国球迷来说，football指的是国家橄榄球联盟和大学生橄榄球队的橄榄球运动。

The Beijing Olympics were yet another humiliation for the national football team. It failed to progress past the group stages.

国家足球队在奥运会上再次蒙羞，他们都没法从小组赛出线。

Police in Angola have detained two suspects in connection with Friday's deadly ambush of the Togolese national football team.

安哥拉警方拘捕了两名与星期五发生的针对多哥国家足球队的袭击有关的嫌疑人。

In addition to her political career, Rice is an accomplished concert pianist as well as a big-time National Football League fan.

除其从政经历以外，赖斯还是一位出色的音乐会钢琴演奏家，同时还是国家足球联赛的超级球迷。

With the National Football League (NFL) in a similar state of abeyance, sports fans are becoming well-versed in American Labour law.

同时，美国美式橄榄球大联盟(nfl)也处于相似的停摆状态中，这种状况使得球迷们对美国劳动法变得无比熟悉。