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In league meetings prior to the 1933 season, three new teams, the Pirates, the Cincinnati Reds, and the Eagles, were admitted to the NFL. [5] [6] Ten teams were then in the NFL and, at George Preston Marshall's urging, with Halas' support, the NFL was reorganized into an Eastern Division and a Western Division.
As a result, the league dropped from 22 to 12 teams, and a majority of the remaining teams were centered around the East Coast instead of the Midwest, where the NFL had started. The New York Yankees were added from the American Football League (AFL I) and the Cleveland Bulldogs returned.
[6] Five defunct NFL franchises (the Akron Pros/Indians, Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Bulldogs/Indians, Frankford Yellow Jackets, and Providence Steamrollers) had previously won NFL championships. The most recent franchise to become defunct was the Dallas Texans, which folded in 1952 after one season in the league. [7]
Super Bowl 9: Pittsburgh Steelers 16, Minnesota Vikings 6 Super Bowl 10: Pittsburgh Steelers 21, Dallas Cowboys 17 Super Bowl 11: Oakland Raiders 32, Minnesota Vikings 14
This is a list of the active National Football League teams' all-time win, loss, tie, and winning percentage records. [1] The teams are listed by year each became active. Updated through the 2024 regular season .
The 1960 season represents the start of the modern era in professional football.That's the year that Lamar Hunt founded the American Football League, and that led to the AFL-NFL World Championship ...
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league composed of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference ...
The team started as the "Boston Patriots" in 1959 and was part of the old American Football League, or AFL, before joining the NFL in 1970. They became the New England Patriots when they moved to ...