American Football (sometimes stylised in all lowercase as american football or americ anfootball) is an American rock band from Urbana, Illinois, originally active from 1997 until 2000, and again beginning with 2014 and onwards. Guitarist/bassist and singer [Mike Kinsella (formerly of Cap'n Jazz and Joan of Arc and currently of Owen), drummer and trumpet player Steve Lamos (formerly of The One Up Downstairs), one-time member of The Firebird Band and Edward Burch & the Staunch Characters, and currently of Geese and DMS), who has since left the band, and guitar player Steve Holmes (also of Geese) formed the band.