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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.
Pittsburgh franchise changed its nickname from the Pirates to the Steelers before the start of the 1940 season. The NFL raised the maximum number of players allowed on a league roster from 30 to 33 players effective with the 1940 season. [3]
Meanwhile, all black players in the NFL (including future Hall of Famer Fritz Pollard) were summarily kicked out prior to the 1927 season for reasons unexplained [citation needed]. From 1928 to 1932, no more than one black player could be found in the league each season, and none played more than two seasons.
NFL regular season games accounted for 31 out of the top 32 most-watched programs in the fall season and an NFL game ranked as the most-watched television show in all 17 weeks of the regular season. At the local level, NFL games were the highest-ranked shows in NFL markets 92% of the time. [130]
After the 1969 season and Super Bowl IV, the AFL and NFL fully merged and underwent a re-alignment for the 1970 season. Three of the pre-merger NFL teams were transferred to the AFC (Browns, Colts, and Steelers) to level the conferences (AFC and NFC) at 13 teams each; each conference split into three divisions.
The current formula has been in place since 2021, the last year that the NFL expanded its regular season. Generally, each team plays the other three teams in its own division once at home and once away, all four teams from a single division in the AFC once, all four teams from a single division in the NFC once, two additional intraconference ...
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