Historically, American football games were played on sand, as to avoid the use of exported equipment from the United States of America and to reduce the impact of the tackles.
[1] A Brazilian Portuguese forum regarding American football was founded in 1998 in order to get more people watching the games on ESPN.
The first organized American football game between two Brazilian teams took place in 2008 when the Curitiba Brown Spiders took on the Barigui Crocodiles.
Victor Menossi Rodrigues is one of the founders of the Brazilian "form" of American football after experimenting with boxing and judo.
[5] Other traditional fixtures in the Brazilian sports lifestyle like volleyball and Formula One are slowly losing their fanbase to American football.