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United States Football League (USFL), 2022–2023 [38] Indoor leagues. World Series of Football, 1902–03; Arena Football League, 1987–2008, 2010–2019;
For many decades after its inception, American football was widely regarded as a second-tier sport behind baseball which was long-regarded as America's national pastime. As a result, even the elite levels of American football generally lacked both the financial wherewithal to build their own facilities and the political clout to secure significant public funds to construct such venues, and as ...
The American Football League (AFL) was a major professional American football league that operated for ten seasons from 1960 until 1970, when it merged with the older National Football League (NFL), and became the American Football Conference. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence.
The NFL was formed in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (APFA) before renaming itself the National Football League for the 1922 season. After initially determining champions through end-of-season standings, a playoff system was implemented in 1933 that culminated with the NFL Championship Game until 1966.
The following is a list of American Football League (AFL) seasons since the inception of the league in 1960 to 1969, the year before it merged with the National Football League (NFL). Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PCT= Winning Percentage, PF= Points For, PA = Points Against
United States Football League (2022) (7 C, 7 P) X. XFL (2020) (7 C, 8 P) Pages in category "American football leagues in the United States"
The 1969 AFL playoffs were only the second time a U.S. major professional football league allowed teams other than the first place teams (including ties) to compete in post-season playoffs (the first was the seven-team All-America Football Conference's 1949 four-team playoff).
This category comprises articles related to the American Football League that played from 1960 to 1969, then merged into the National Football League in 1970.. NOTE: Due to technical restrictions, the Tennessee Titans are listed in this category, even though not they but their predecessors, the Houston Oilers, were in the American Football League.