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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.
Bridged together by song and pigskin, music and football have found a way to unite the world in ways that many can only dream of. Here's a look at how the 1971 hit became the NFL's German anthem.
The American Professional Football Association is reorganized at Akron, Ohio on April 30, 1921, with Joe F. Carr elected as new league president. [1] With the low entry barrier of a $100 membership fee, the number of teams balloons to 21. [1]
The NFL is the wealthiest professional sports league in the world by revenue, [7] and the sports league with the most valuable teams. [8] The NFL also has the highest average attendance (67,591) of any professional sports league in the world [9] and is the most popular sports league in the United States. [10]
NFL Country is a compilation album released by the National Football League that featured country musicians performing songs with NFL stars. The album made it to 66 on the Top Country Albums and was released the same day as NFL Jams , an album with a similar concept but with hip hop music instead.
Singer-songwriter Pink performed the theme song in NBC's first year airing Sunday Night Football in 2006. Country singer Faith Hill, who sang a new arrangement of the Jett "I Hate Myself for ...
Notably, Ralph, in 2023, was the first to perform the song in the Super Bowl stadium. Keys, in 2021, performed the song in a pre-recorded broadcast. Mary Mary performed it outside the stadium in 2022.
The NFL, which had played a 12-game schedule since 1947, changed to a 14-game schedule in 1961, a year after the American Football League instituted it. The AFL also introduced the two-point conversion to professional football 34 years before the NFL instituted it in 1994 (college football had adopted the two-point conversion in the late 1950s ...