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The 1961 NFL season was the 42nd regular season of the National Football League (NFL). The league expanded to 14 teams with the addition of the Minnesota Vikings, after the team's founders declined to be charter members of the new American Football League. The schedule was also expanded from 12 games per team to 14 games per team where it would ...
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Game Date Opponent Result Record Venue Attendance Recap Sources 1 September 17 at Dallas Cowboys: L 24–27 : 0–1 2 September 24 New York Giants: L 14–17 : 0–2 3 October 1 at Los Angeles Rams
The 1961 NFL draft and the 1961 AFL Draft were separate drafts, and players could end up being drafted by both leagues. The 1961 NFL Draft, which involved fourteen teams choosing college players during twenty rounds, took place on December 27 and 28, 1960. It occurred after the Eagles' win in the NFL Championship Game on December 26.
The Cowboys played in the NFL's Western Division for the 1960 season, but were a "swing team" and played each of the other 12 teams in the league that year. When the Minnesota Vikings joined the league for the 1961 season, the owners of the Eastern Division teams were allowed to vote on which expansion franchise they wanted to be permanently ...
The 1961 Los Angeles Rams season was the team's 24th year with the National Football League and the 16th season in Los Angeles.The team opened up losing 6 of its firs 7 games, en route to a 4–10 record and a sixth place finish in the NFL's Western Conference.
The NFL on NBC is the branding used for broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games that are produced by NBC Sports, and televised on the NBC television network and the Peacock streaming service in the United States. NBC had sporadically carried NFL games as early as 1939, including the championship and Pro Bowl through the 1950s and ...