Complex sentence: He had brief off-season stints with the Minnesota Vikings and Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL) in 2007 and played a full season ffor the Canadian Football League's Edmonton Eskimos in 2008 before his release and retirement from football.
Split into simpler sentences: He had brief off-season stints with the Minnesota Vikings and Jacksonville Jaguars in 2007. Anoa'i then turned to the Canadian Football League's Edmonton Eskimos in 2008, playing a season before his release and retirement from football.