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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 history and records of the AFL were incorporated into the NFL. In the 105-year history of the NFL, there have been 531 head coaches, 32 of whom are currently active as head coaches. George Halas has the longest tenure of any NFL head coach, with a career spanning 40 years, however, these seasons were not consecutive as they were spread out ...
Reid is the oldest active coach at 66 years old while the youngest is Mike Macdonald at 37. McVay at 30 was the youngest head coach at the time of hiring in modern NFL history and the youngest to win a Super Bowl at 36.
[39] [40] In 2020, the 49ers played in Super Bowl LIV making Sowers the first female and first openly gay coach in Super Bowl history. [41] Also in 2020, Callie Brownson became the first woman to coach an NFL position group in a regular-season game when she filled in for the Cleveland Browns tight ends coach Drew Petzing. [42]
Halas was the oldest person in NFL history to serve as a head coach, aged 72 years and 318 days when he coached the final game of his career in December 1967, a record that stood for over 50 years until Romeo Crennel became the interim head coach of the Houston Texans in October 2020, aged 73 years and 115 days.
The team was established in Chicago in 1898 and was a charter member of the NFL in 1920. The team has played their home games at the State Farm Stadium since 2006 and is the oldest franchise in the NFL. [1] [2] The team has moved to numerous cities during its history.
Prior to his tenure as head coach during the 1958 NFL season, McLean and Hugh Devore served as interim head coaches for the last two games of the 1953 NFL season after Ronzani resigned. [8] McLean led the Packers to their worst season by winning percentage and total wins, going 1–10–1 for a winning percentage of .125 in 1958.
Current Chiefs head coach Andy Reid. The Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL) have had 13 head coaches in their franchise history. The franchise was founded in 1960 by Lamar Hunt and were known as the Dallas Texans when the team was located in Dallas, Texas. [1]