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The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league in the United States and the highest professional level of American football in the world. [1] It was formed in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (APFA) before adopting its current name for the 1922 season.
LaDainian Tomlinson holds the single-season scoring record with 186 in 2006. In American football, scoring can be achieved via touchdown (six points), a field goal (three points), a safety (two points), or by conversion try. After a touchdown is scored, a team will attempt a conversion try, often called the point after touchdown (PAT), for either one or two points. The National Football League ...
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 .
Daniels is one of the latest Heisman winners to make it to the NFL. He and Burrow are two of 11 Heisman winners who are active in the NFL this season. That group includes:
Only one No. 7 seed has won an NFL playoff game since the league's postseason field expanded to 14 teams before the 2020 season. That was the Green Bay Packers , who earned a 48-32 win over the ...
Since the 2002 season, the league has scheduled a nationally televised regular season kickoff game on the Thursday night after Labor Day, prior to the first Sunday of NFL games to kick off the season. The first one, featuring the San Francisco 49ers and the New York Giants, was held on September 5, 2002, largely to celebrate New York City's ...
Week 4 came to a close with another double-header, as Detroit Lions QB stole the show on Monday Night Football, making history in a 42-29 win over the Seattle Seahawks.
As a result, the league dropped from 22 to 12 teams, and a majority of the remaining teams were centered around the East Coast instead of the Midwest, where the NFL had started. The New York Yankees were added from the American Football League (AFL I) and the Cleveland Bulldogs returned.