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Two teams, the Birmingham Vulcans and Memphis Southmen, made unsuccessful efforts to move from the WFL to the NFL. In 1982 and 1987 there were player strikes. The 1982 NFL strike, which lasted for eight weeks, forced the 1982 season to be shortened to 9 games per team.
The NFL realigned to create four divisions in each conference with four teams in each division. Arizona (NFC East) and Seattle (AFC West) joined the NFC West. NFC Central renamed NFC North. AFC Central renamed AFC North. NFC South created. Tampa Bay moved from the old NFC Central. New Orleans, Atlanta, and Carolina moved from the NFC West.
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.
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Only four NFL teams have not played in a Super Bowl – the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Houston Texans and Jacksonville Jaguars. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Super Bowl ...
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]
And on this date in Texas history, the Longhorns rolled to a 38-7 win over North Texas in Charlie Strong's first game as the head coach of the football program. In the victory, UT limited North ...
In March 1998, McNair learned that the NFL officially awarded Cleveland its promised expansion franchise, making it the NFL's 31st team; NFL Commissioner Tagliabue said that the league would likely add a 32nd team in the next two years, with the three top candidates being Toronto (which would have been the NFL's first franchise outside the US, and the fifth largest market in North America ...