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The National Football League (NFL) was founded in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (APFA) with ten teams from four states, all of whom existed in some form as participants of regional leagues in their respective territories. The league took on its current name in 1922.
The champions of the NFC receive the George Halas Trophy, [100] named after Chicago Bears founder George Halas, who is also considered one of the co-founders of the NFL. The AFC champions receive the Lamar Hunt Trophy , [ 101 ] named after Lamar Hunt , the founder of the Kansas City Chiefs and the principal founder of the American Football League.
The American Professional Football Association is formed on September 17, 1920, at Canton, Ohio, with Jim Thorpe elected president. [1] The fourteen teams were mainly drawn from the Ohio League, Chicago Circuit, New York Pro Football League and other teams from the lower midwest.
The Cardinals and the Chicago Bears (the latter founded as the Decatur Staleys before moving to Chicago in 1921 and being renamed the Chicago Staleys, then in 1922 being renamed the Chicago Bears) are the only charter members of the NFL still in existence, though the Green Bay Packers, which joined the league in 1921, existed prior to the ...
NFL: Chicago Bears (6) 41–21 Washington Redskins: Wrigley Field: 34,320 1944: NFL: Green Bay Packers (6) 14–7 New York Giants: Polo Grounds: 46,016 1945: NFL: Cleveland Rams (1) 15–14 Washington Redskins: Cleveland Municipal Stadium: 32,178 1946: NFL: Chicago Bears (7) 24–14 New York Giants: Polo Grounds: 58,346 1947: NFL: Chicago ...
The NFL owners are a parallel universe of private wealth, and as such are one of greatest under-recognized power centers in our country. They don’t call this America’s most exclusive club for ...
Throughout the years, a number of teams in the National Football League (NFL) have either moved or merged.. In the early years, the NFL was not stable and teams moved frequently to survive, or folded only to be resurrected in a different city with the same players and owners, while the Great Depression era saw the movement of most surviving small-town NFL teams to larger cities to ensure ...
On Sunday, the NFL will hold its first Super Bowl in Las Vegas, a city built on gambling. Even in 2003, gambling was as much a part of the NFL as tailgating, helmets and shoulder pads.