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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) 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.
After the league merged, it was reorganized into two conferences: the National Football Conference (NFC), consisting of most of the pre-merger NFL teams, and the American Football Conference (AFC), consisting of all of the AFL teams as well as three pre-merger NFL teams. [29] Today, the NFL is the most popular sports league in North America [30 ...
In 1960, the AFL began play with eight teams and a double round-robin schedule of fourteen games. New NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle took office the same year. [172] The AFL became a viable alternative to the NFL as it made a concerted effort to attract established talent away from the NFL, signing half of the NFL's first-round draft choices in ...
The 2025 NFL draft will begin with the first round on Thursday, April 24. Rounds 2 and 3 take place the following day, and the draft will conclude on its third day with Rounds 4-7 on Saturday ...
The Bears' NFL championships and overall victories are second behind the Green Bay Packers, [10] [11] [12] with whom they have a long-standing rivalry. [13] The franchise was founded in Decatur, Illinois, on September 20, 1919, [14] [15] [16] became professional on September 17, 1920, and moved to Chicago in 1921.
The race to Super Bowl 59 is approaching. Twelve of the 14 teams to make the postseason will begin their playoff journeys in mere weeks.. The wild-card round of the 2024-25 NFL playoffs are set to ...
The 14th annual NFL Honors is set for 9 p.m. ET on Thursday, Feb. 6 at the Saenger Theater in New Orleans. The red carpet show will air on NFL Network at 8 p.m. ET.