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The **National Football League** (**NFL**) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). The NFL is one of the four major North American professional sports leagues and the highest professional level of American football in the world. Its eighteen-week regular season runs from early September to early January, with each team playing seventeen games and having one bye week. Following the conclusion of the regular season, seven teams from each conference (four division winners and three wild card teams) advance to the playoffs, a single-elimination tournament culminating in the Super Bowl, which is usually held on the first Sunday in February and is played between the champions of the NFC and AFC. The league is headquartered in New York City.

The NFL was formed in 1920 as the **American Professional Football Association** (**APFA**) before renaming itself the National Football League for the 1922 season. After initially determining champions through end-of-season standings, a playoff system was implemented in 1933 that culminated with the NFL Championship Game until 1966. Following an agreement to merge the NFL with the rival American Football League (AFL), the Super Bowl was first held in 1967 to determine a champion between the best teams from the two leagues and has remained as the final game of each NFL season since the merger was completed in 1970. The NFL has the highest average attendance (67,591) of any professional sports league in the world and is the most popular sports league in the United States. The Super Bowl is also among the biggest club sporting events in the world, with the individual games accounting for many of the most watched television programs in American history and all occupying the Nielsen's Top 5 tally of the all-time most watched U.S. television broadcasts by 2015. The NFL is the wealthiest professional sports league by revenue and the sports league with the most valuable teams.

The Green Bay Packers hold the most combined NFL championships with thirteen, winning nine titles before the Super Bowl era and four Super Bowls afterwards. Since the creation of the Super Bowl, the Pittsburgh Steelers and New England Patriots have the most championship titles at six.

## Overview

In 2017, TV5 and the NFL signed an agreement to air NFL games on the said network, beginning with the 2017 NFL season. The season would start airing on TV5 beginning September 22, 2017, with the Los Angeles Rams-San Francisco 49ers match being the first match to air on the network. The league's matches would be aired on the network every Monday, Tuesdays and Fridays (the days when primetime matches are played).

In November 2017, following the adjustment to Daylight Time, the matches' airtime was moved an hour later, as a result, Aksyon Sa Tanghali's timeslot was adjusted to accommodate for the adjustment of the match's time.

On November 9 2018, Thursday Night Football matches were moved to AksyonTV after Winter Daylight time took effect, however, Sunday Night and Monday Night Football matches continued to air on TV5.

For the 2019 season, NFL matches were moved to the 5 Plus network instead of being aired on TV5.

In March 2020, 5 Plus would rebrand to One Sports, carrying over the NFL to the newly rebranded channel.

However, following the closure of ABS-CBN's sporting division as a result of the denial of the aforementioned network's franchise, One Sports would prematurely terminate their NFL broadcasting rights after acquiring the NBA's broadcasting rights following the closure of the former rights holder.

## Broadcast history

### TV5-related

* Sports5 on TV5 (September 21, 2017 – October 8, 2017)
* ESPN5 (October 13, 2017 – January 17, 2020)
* One Sports (March 8, 2020 - July 27, 2020)