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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]
1964 NFL Championship ticket. Throughout its history, the National Football league (NFL) and other rival American football leagues have used several different formats to determine their league champions, including a period of inter-league matchups to determine a true national champion.
Dorfler joined the NFL as CFO in May 2023 following a 21-year career at NBCUniversal. She was most recently the CFO of NBC Sports. Before that, she was the CFO of the NBC and Telemundo-owned ...
George Preston Marshall (October 11, 1896 – August 9, 1969) was an American professional football executive who founded the National Football League (NFL)'s Washington Redskins. He founded the team as the Boston Braves in 1932. The following season, he relocated the club from Braves Field to Fenway Park and renamed them as the Redskins.
The NFL's coaching carousel made for a particularly long ride this go-around. More than four months passed from the time of the first firing of a head coach – the New York Jets dumping Robert ...
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