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In 1970, the leagues fully merged under the name National Football League and divided into two conferences of an equal number of teams. Since the pre-merger NFL had six more teams than the AFL, three NFL teams – the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns, and Baltimore Colts – moved to the AFC, the conference containing the AFL teams.
The American Professional Football Association is reorganized at Akron, Ohio on April 30, 1921, with Joe F. Carr elected as new league president. [1] With the low entry barrier of a $100 membership fee, the number of teams balloons to 21. [1]
The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The Cardinals compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) West division. The team plays its home games at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, [6] a suburb northwest of the state capital of ...
After the team's results in 2015, the Cardinals were an expected Super Bowl contender in 2016. However, the team had a poor start, losing three of their first four games. The first tie for the franchise since 1986 occurred on an NBC Sunday Night Football game against the Seattle Seahawks on October 23. The score was 6–6, the lowest-scoring ...
Five defunct NFL franchises (the Akron Pros/Indians, Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Bulldogs/Indians, Frankford Yellow Jackets, and Providence Steamrollers) had previously won NFL championships. The most recent franchise to become defunct was the Dallas Texans, which folded in 1952 after one season in the league. [7]
The oldest continuing matchup in the NFL belongs to the Bears and the Arizona Cardinals, [199] the only remaining NFL teams from the 1920 APFA season. It began as intense intra-city rivalry between the Bears and the Chicago Cardinals , which the Bears were leading 47–19–6 through 1959, when the Cardinals moved to St. Louis .
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league composed of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).
This is a list of the active National Football League teams' all-time win, loss, tie, and winning percentage records. [1] The teams are listed by year each became active. Updated through the 2024 regular season. [2]