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The National Football League (NFL) was founded in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (APFA) with ten teams from four states, all of whom existed in some form as participants of regional leagues in their respective territories. The league took on its current name in 1922.
The NFL realigned to create four divisions in each conference with four teams in each division. Arizona (NFC East) and Seattle (AFC West) joined the NFC West. NFC Central renamed NFC North. AFC Central renamed AFC North. NFC South created. Tampa Bay moved from the old NFC Central. New Orleans, Atlanta, and Carolina moved from the NFC West.
The NFL is the wealthiest professional sports league in the world by revenue, [7] and the sports league with the most valuable teams. [8] The NFL also has the highest average attendance (67,591) of any professional sports league in the world [9] and is the most popular sports league in the United States. [10]
The National Football League (NFL) has had a long and complicated history in Los Angeles, the second-largest media market in the United States. Los Angeles became the first city on the West Coast to host an NFL team when the Cleveland Rams relocated to Los Angeles in 1946; they played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum from 1946 until 1979.
In 1960, the AFL began play with eight teams and a double round-robin schedule of fourteen games. New NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle took office the same year. [172] The AFL became a viable alternative to the NFL as it made a concerted effort to attract established talent away from the NFL, signing half of the NFL's first-round draft choices in ...
The NFL has been found guilty of breaking antitrust laws in its distribution of out-of-market Sunday afternoon games on the “Sunday Ticket” premium subscription service.
The club played its home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum until 1980, when it moved into a reconstructed Anaheim Stadium in Orange County, California. The Rams made their first Super Bowl appearance at the end of the 1979 NFL season, losing Super Bowl XIV to the Pittsburgh Steelers, 31–19.
Tom Brady holds up the Lamar Hunt Trophy as New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick applauds after beating the Colts 45-7 in the AFC championship game on Jan. 18, 2015.