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Oldest player to record first rushing touchdown: Butch Songin, 36 years, 158 days (AFL); Bobby Hebert, 36 years, 62 days (NFL) Oldest player to record first rushing attempt: Charles Woodson, 39 years, 78 days; Oldest player to record first rushing yard: Jeff Gossett, 39 years, 304 days; Oldest player to score first point: Bill Irgens, 39
Rank Player Position Career Points 41 Jerry Rice: Wide receiver: 1985–2004 1,256 59 Emmitt Smith: Running back: 1990–2004 1,052 67 LaDainian Tomlinson
The 1920 Akron Pros were named the first APFA (NFL) champions. The National Football League champions, prior to the merger between the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) in 1970, were determined by two different systems. The National Football League was established on September 17, 1920, as the American Professional Football Association (APFA). The APFA changed ...
NFL records include: List of NFL individual records, a list of all-time records for individual NFL players; List of NFL team records, a list of all-time records for teams and franchises; List of NFL team playoff records, a list of records in the NFL playoffs; List of Super Bowl records, a list of records set by teams and players in Super Bowl games
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 ...
The Lions would play the Bears in the first ever Thanksgiving Day NFL game in 1934. The site would be the University of Detroit Stadium with 26,000 people in attendance, according to the Pro ...
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 ...
The winner of the "bonus pick" was eliminated from the draw in future years. By 1958 all twelve clubs in the league at the time had received a bonus choice and the system was abolished. [2] [3] Before the merger agreements in 1966, the American Football League (AFL) directly competed with the NFL and held a separate draft. This led to a massive ...