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The NFL officially counts and includes the statistical records logged by teams that played in the American Football League (AFL) as part of NFL history. Therefore, these teams' pre-merger win–loss records are accounted for. However, the NFL does not officially count All-America Football Conference statistics, despite the 1950 NFL–AAFC ...
The 40-0 skull-dragging isn’t anywhere close to the worst blowout in NFL history. That honor belongs to the 1940 championship, a Chicago-Washington nailbiter that the Bears won 73-0. (For the ...
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.
In sports, a blowout or rout is an easy or one-sided victory. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It occurs when one athletic team or individual performer outscores another by a large margin or in such a fashion that the second team or individual has little chance of a victory.
TV viewership for NFL games has also slowly increased in the UK, with a small but dedicated fan base watching more and more games, and last season's Super Bowl smashing the single-game viewing record.
The Commodores also mustered their worst offensive output of the season in terms of points and second-worst by yardage, while also suffering their worst blowout of the year, 47-6, on Saturday.
The longest losing streaks in the postseason in NFL history The Chicago Cardinals have the longest regular season losing streak, losing 29 consecutive games from 1942 through 1945. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have the longest losing streak since the 1970 AFL–NFL merger , losing the first 26 games in franchise history in 1976 and 1977.
Starting in 1933, the NFL decided its champion through a single postseason playoff game, called the NFL Championship Game. During this period, the league divided its teams into two groups, through 1949 as divisions and from 1950 onward as conferences. Divisions (1933–1949): Eastern and Western; Conferences (1950–1952): American and National