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Awards include the Associated Press NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award (since 1971), Pro Football Writers Association NFL Defensive Player of the Year (since 1969), and Newspaper Enterprise Association Defensive Player of the Year Award (1966–1997).The Associated Press award has been presented annually at the NFL Honors since 2012. [8] [9]
List of NFL MVP awards; Newspaper Enterprise Association NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award; NFL 50th Anniversary All-Time Team; NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time Team; NFL 100th Anniversary All-Time Team; NFL Alumni; NFL Moment of the Year Award; NFL Rookie of the Week; NFL Teacher of the Year; NFLPA Alan Page Community Award
The NFL Honors is an annual awards presentation in the National Football League (NFL). From 2012–2021, it was held on the day before the Super Bowl . Since 2022, the ceremony is held on the Thursday before the Super Bowl, in the game's host city. [ 1 ]
Since the 2011 season, the NFL has held the annual NFL Honors ceremony, which recognizes the winner of the Associated Press MVP award. [ 2 ] The first award described as a most valuable player award was the Joe F. Carr Trophy , presented by the NFL from 1938 to 1946 .
The 1920 Akron Pros were named the first APFA (NFL) champions. The National Football League champions, prior to the merger between the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) in 1970, were determined by two different systems. The National Football League was established on September 17, 1920, as the American Professional Football Association (APFA). The APFA changed ...
The rival All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and American Football League (AFL) have since merged with the NFL (the only two AAFC teams that currently exist, the Cleveland Browns and the San Francisco 49ers, joined the NFL in 1950), but AAFC Championship Games and records are not included in the NFL's record books.
The NEA NFL Rookie of the Year award was founded in 1964 by the Newspaper Enterprise Association. [ 87 ] and was created by Murray Olderman , the senior sports editor for the NEA. From 1971 through 1976 winners for both the American Football Conference and National Football Conference were chosen, except in 1974.
The Sporting News (formerly Sporting News from 2002 to 2022) began awarding a National Football League (NFL) player of the year award in 1954. From 1970 to 1979, The Sporting News chose American Football Conference (AFC) and National Football Conference (NFC) players of the year, and returned to a single winner in 1980.