Editing Product placement (section)

===NFL===
While now-defunct [[NFL Europe]] allowed liberal use of team uniforms by sponsors, the main [[National Football League]] (NFL) does not. In the United States, the league prohibits logos of sponsors painted onto the fields, although [[Gillette Stadium]] in [[Foxborough, Massachusetts]], has their stadium's logomark painted onto the [[FieldTurf]] field. In 2008, the league allowed sponsors on the practice jerseys of the uniforms, but not game uniforms.

In 1991, the league allowed uniform suppliers to display their logos on their NFL-related products. Since 2012, [[Nike, Inc.|Nike]] has been the league's official uniform supplier.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sportspromedia.com/news/nfl-nike-uniform-deal |title=US sportswear giant will remain exclusive uniform provider for league's 32 teams. |last=Carp |first=Sam |date=March 28, 2018 |website=sportspromedia.com |access-date=November 7, 2018}}</ref>

Early on, two of the league's flagship teams—the [[Green Bay Packers]] and the [[Pittsburgh Steelers]]—adopted their identity from corporate sponsors. The Packers adopted the name "Packers" because they were sponsored by the [[Indian Packing Company]]. They later had "ACME PACKERS" written on their uniforms in the early 1920s after the Acme Packing Company bought Indian Packing.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.packers.com/news/the-acme-packers-were-short-lived-18677091 |title=The Acme Packers were short-lived | last = Christl | first = Cliff | author-link = Cliff Christl |date=March 23, 2017 |website=packers.com |access-date=November 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180801221116/https://www.packers.com/news/the-acme-packers-were-short-lived-18677091 |archive-date=August 1, 2018 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }}</ref> The Steelers adopted their current logo in 1962 as a product-placement deal with the [[American Iron and Steel Institute]], which owned the rights to the [[Steelmark]] logo. The Steelers later were allowed to add "-ers" to the Steelmark logo the following year so that they could own a [[trademark]] on the logo.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.steel.org/about-aisi/history/history-of-the-steelmark |title=History of the Steelmark |website=steel.org |access-date=November 7, 2018}}</ref> (The Steelers' [[J.P. Rooneys|pre-NFL predecessors]] also regularly sold naming rights to companies in the Pittsburgh area.)

NFL Japan was a sponsor of the football-themed [[anime]] series ''[[Eyeshield 21]]''.<ref>{{Cite press release |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20070618006518/en/Japans-Top-Anime-Series-Eyeshield-21-Brings |title=Japan's Top Anime Series Eyeshield 21 Brings a New Concept, Sports Anime, to the Forefront of the Cartoon World with Its Global Debut on Toonami Jetstream |last=Moss |first=Geoff |date=June 18, 2007 |access-date=November 7, 2018}}</ref>