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The National Football League (NFL) has been playing games in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, since 1959 when an interleague game between the Chicago Cardinals of the NFL and the Toronto Argonauts (often shortened as Argos) of the Canadian Football League (CFL) took place at Exhibition Stadium. Subsequently, a number of neutral site preseason and ...
The following list contains all urban areas in the United States and Canada containing at least one team in any of the six major leagues. The number of teams in the big four leagues (B4) and the big six leagues (B6), and the city's teams in the National Football League (NFL), [2] Major League Baseball (MLB), [3] the National Basketball Association (NBA), [4] the National Hockey League (NHL ...
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and the highest professional level of American ...
The American Bowl was a series of NFL pre-season exhibition games that were held at sites outside the United States between 1986 and 2005. The league started the American Bowl series in 1986 primarily to promote American football in other countries. The American Bowl was a fifth pre-season game, played the same weekend as the Pro Football Hall ...
Overview of American and Canadian professional sports teams. Previously the Chicago Cardinals (1920–1959) and St. Louis Cardinals (1960–1987). Previously the Boston Braves (1871–1952) and Milwaukee Braves (1953–1965). Previously the Tri-Cities Blackhawks (1949–1951), Milwaukee Hawks (1951–1955) and St. Louis Hawks (1955–1968).
The NFL International Series logo used between 2009 and 2016; the year was updated annually. Opening ceremony at Wembley Stadium before the Denver Broncos vs. San Francisco 49ers game in 2010. The NFL International Series is a series of American football games during the National Football League (NFL) regular season that are played outside the ...
Ohio Independent Championship (Ohio League), 1903–1919 [ 20 ] Interprovincial Rugby Football Union, 1907–1959 [ 21 ] New York Pro Football League, c. 1913–1920 [ 22 ] American Football League, 1926, 1936–1937, and 1940–1941 (all unrelated, three separate leagues) California Winter League, [ 23 ] 1927–1928.
The NFL has beaten back other significant rival football leagues, often placing expansion or relocation teams in those cities following that league's demise: the World Football League of 1974–1975 (the NFL added two teams in 1975), the United States Football League of 1983–1985 (the NFL relocated one team to a USFL market in 1988), and the ...