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In 2010, NFL Network aired The Top 100: NFL's Greatest Players, an all-time top 100 list, with wide receiver Jerry Rice being voted as the number-one player. The following year, the network debuted their annual NFL Top 100, with quarterback Tom Brady being voted at the top. Brady holds the record for most number-one selections, with four (2011 ...
[1] [2] [3] They are among the most high-profile athletes in North America and are typically viewed as the team's leader. [4] The success of a National Football League (NFL) franchise often rests on the quarterback; thus, teams will go to great lengths to find a franchise quarterback to build around.
Aaron Charles Rodgers (born December 2, 1983) is an American professional football quarterback for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the California Golden Bears (where he set several career passing records, including lowest single-season and career interception rates [1]), before being selected in the first round of the 2005 NFL draft by ...
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 ...
Combined with his official post-1949 record of 58–31–1 (.652), his overall estimated record is 65–39–1 (.625). ^e Graham also started 55 games for the Cleveland Browns when they were in the All-America Football Conference (1946–1949), and is estimated to have gone 48–4–3.
Most NFL teams defeated at least once, career: 32, Brett Favre, [150] Peyton Manning, [151] Drew Brees, [152] and Tom Brady [153] Most wins against a single opponent, regular season, by a starting quarterback : 33, Tom Brady , New England Patriots , 2001–2019, Tampa Bay Buccaneers , 2021 vs. Buffalo Bills .
On December 29, 1965, CBS acquired the rights to the NFL regular season games in 1966 and 1967, with an option to extend the contract through 1968, for $18.8 million per year (in sharp contrast to the $14.1 million per year it paid for the rights in 1964).
The single-season scoring record is held by LaDainian Tomlinson of the San Diego Chargers who, in 2006, scored 186 points and broke the 46-year-old record held by Paul Hornung. [ 7 ] [ 1 ] Three players, Gino Cappelletti , Don Hutson , and Stephen Gostkowski , have led the league a record five times each, all having done so in at least four ...