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One of only four women inducted into the American Football Association Hall of Fame. [30] [31] Named the 1975 Athlete of the Year by womenSports, the first magazine dedicated exclusively to covering women in sports. [30] Posted five consecutive 1,000-yard seasons rushing. [30] Barbara Patton – Linebacker, Los Angeles Dandelions (1973–1975).
The NFL officially counts and includes the statistical records logged by teams that played in the American Football League (AFL) as part of NFL history. Therefore, these teams' pre-merger win–loss records are accounted for. However, the NFL does not officially count All-America Football Conference statistics, despite the 1950 NFL–AAFC ...
A former NFL human resources employee alleged in an employment discrimination lawsuit filed earlier this year in New Jersey that NFL Flims — the league's production team — kept photos of women ...
The Women's Professional Football League (1965–1973) was formed in 1963. It stopped operations in 1973. In 1970, Patricia Palinkas became the holder of the Orlando Panthers and became the first woman to play in the Atlantic Coast Football League. [1] The Women's Professional Football League operated again between 1999 and 2007.
At the eighth annual Women’s Forum, in February 2024, all of the full-time female NFL coaches (12 at the time) sat on the same stage together for the first time—and while on the surface that ...
Beginning with the 1933 season, the NFL featured a championship game, played between the winners of its two divisions.In this era, if there was a tie for first place in the division at the end of the regular season, a one-game playoff was used to determine the team that would represent their division in the NFL Championship Game.
The Browns, Vikings and Steelers all put together six-year runs of division title wins in the middle of the 20th century. Until the mid-2010s, those streaks were tied for the second-longest in NFL ...
Early championships between 1920 and 1932 were awarded to the team with the best won-lost record, initially rather haphazardly, as some teams played more or fewer games than others, or scheduled games against non-league, amateur or collegiate teams; this led to the 1920 title being determined during a league meeting after the season, [3] the 1921 title being decided on a controversial ...