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1920–1932: The Birth of the NFL 1920. The American Professional Football Association is formed September 17, 1920, at Canton, Ohio, with Jim Thorpe elected president. 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 National Football League (NFL) was founded in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (APFA) with ten teams from four states, all of whom existed in some form as participants of regional leagues in their respective territories. The league took on its current name in 1922. The NFL was the first professional football league to ...
The National Football League ( NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and the highest professional level of ...
Since 2002, the league has consisted of 32 teams based across the United States. Each NFL season since 2021 has started with a three-week preseason in August, followed by the 18-week regular season which runs from early September to early January, with each team playing 17 games and having one bye week. Following the conclusion of the regular ...
Lists of NFL team seasons. 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 Super Bowl LVII (as of February 2023 ). Team.
Ownership history: He inherited the team after his father's death in 1991, but his dad, Paul, didn't own the majority—in 2011, Mike purchased an additional 30% of the team's shares for $200 ...
NFL Network. Release. December 3, 2015. ( 2015-12-03) –. February 2, 2018. ( 2018-02-02) The Timeline is a documentary series developed by NFL Films and airs on NFL Network that documents select events of the National Football League.
The National Football League (NFL) regular season begins on the weekend following the first Monday of September (i.e, the weekend following the Labor Day holiday) and ends in early January, after which that season's playoffs tournament begins. It consists of 272 games, with each of the NFL's 32 teams playing 17 games during an 18-week period ...