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| album = [[American Football (1999 album)| American Football]]
| released = September 14, 1999
| genre = [[midwestMidwest emo]], [[math rock]], [[post-rock]], [[indie rock]]
| length = {{Duration|m=4|s=28}}
| label = [[Polyvinyl Records|Polyvinyl]]
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== Release ==
{{Main article|American Football (1999 album)}}
American Football's LP1self-titled debut album was released on [[Polyvinyl Record Co.]] on September 14, 1999<ref name="PVRClisting2">{{cite web |title=American Football CD |url=http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/acatalog/Catalog_PRC_025_23.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010119123400/http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/acatalog/Catalog_PRC_025_23.html |archive-date=January 19, 2001 |access-date=December 8, 2021 |publisher=Polyvinyl Recording Co.}}</ref>. Initially, fans of the band were mostly fans of [[Cap'n Jazz]]<ref name="CMJ17">CMJ New Music Report 1999, p. 17</ref>, a short-lived emo band with a [[cult following]] that Kinsellaincluded playedAmerican withFootball singer Mike Kinsella on previouslydrums. With minor success on college radio and with positive word of mouth<ref name="ClashSpotlight">{{cite web |last=Montesinos-Donaghy, Daniel |date=May 29, 2014 |title=Spotlight: American Football - S/T |url=http://www.clashmusic.com/features/spotlight-american-football-american-football |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150615170551/http://www.clashmusic.com/features/spotlight-american-football-american-football |archive-date=June 15, 2015 |access-date=June 15, 2015 |website=Clash Magazine}}</ref>, LP1the beganalbum toformed form itsa ownsolid cult following in the local emo scene. Nevertheless, Americanby Footballthe wouldnext disbandyear, as the band members' nocollege longercourses livedhad in the same cityended<ref name="ExclaimtimelineLOBFinterview">{{cite web |last=GormelyGoggins, IanJoe |date=MayJune 65, 2014 |title=TimNot &So Emotional?: American Football's Mike Kinsella on reflection, reminiscence and resurrection - The Line Of Best Fit |url=http://exclaimwww.cathelineofbestfit.com/Musicfeatures/articleinterviews/tim_mike_kinsellanot-you_cant_miss_what_you_forgetso-emotional-american-football-mike-kinsella-interview-2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2015061517072520150617162641/http://exclaimwww.cathelineofbestfit.com/Musicfeatures/articleinterviews/tim_mike_kinsellanot-you_cant_miss_what_you_forgetso-emotional-american-football-mike-kinsella-interview-2014 |archive-date=June 1517, 2015 |access-date=June 1517, 2015 |website=Exclaim![[The Line of Best Fit]]}}</ref>, andthey theirno collegelonger courseslived hadin comethe tosame an endcity<ref name="LOBFinterviewExclaimtimeline">{{cite web |last=GogginsGormely, JoeIan |date=JuneMay 56, 2014 |title=NotTim So Emotional?: American Football's& Mike Kinsella on reflection, reminiscence and resurrection - The Line Of Best Fit |url=http://wwwexclaim.thelineofbestfit.comca/featuresMusic/interviewsarticle/nottim_mike_kinsella-so-emotional-american-football-mike-kinsella-interview-2014you_cant_miss_what_you_forget |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2015061716264120150615170725/http://wwwexclaim.thelineofbestfit.comca/featuresMusic/interviewsarticle/nottim_mike_kinsella-so-emotional-american-football-mike-kinsella-interview-2014you_cant_miss_what_you_forget |archive-date=June 1715, 2015 |access-date=June 1715, 2015 |website=[[The Line of Best Fit]]Exclaim!}}</ref>., and the band amicably disbanded
WithAs an inactive band with a narrow body of work, it would not have been surprising for the hype around the music to have fizzled out. However, with the advent of the internet, theirAmerican albumFootball would reachgrow to a much larger audience than even Cap'n Jazz andever becamehad. notTheir justdebut aalbum listeninggreatly stapleinfluenced inthe emomodern circlessound aroundof the[[Midwest world,emo|Midwest butemo amusic]], majorand trailblazerhelp inpopularize theit soundfrom ofa [[MidwestMidwestern emo|midwestUnited emo musicStates|regional]] genre, into an international one. Features such as their twinkly math rock riffs, arpeggiated melodies, and distinctive open tunings are now some of the most defining features of the genre.
== Reception ==
Contemporary reviews have been highly laudatory. [[Variety (magazine)|Variety magazine]] and pop culture website [[Vulture (website)|Vulture]] both ranked Never Meant as the #1 greatest emo song of all time,<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> with American pop culture website [[The Ringer (website)|The Ringer]] ranking it as the greatest emo song of 1999.<ref name=":2" />
== Music videos ==
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