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Kansas City Chiefs
The Chiefs boast one of the most loyal fan bases in the NFL . Kansas City is the sixth - smallest media market with an NFL team , but they have had the second - highest attendance average over the last decade . Studies by Bizjournals in 2006 gave the Chiefs high marks for consistently drawing capacity crowds in both good seasons and bad . The Chiefs averaged 77,300 fans per game from 1996 to 2006 , second in the NFL behind the Washington Redskins . The franchise has an official fan club called Chiefs Kingdom which gives members opportunities to ticket priority benefits and VIP treatment .
NFL playoffs
Team Appearances Green Bay Packers 32 Dallas Cowboys 32 New York Giants 32 Pittsburgh Steelers 31 Minnesota Vikings 29 Cleveland / St. Louis / Los Angeles Rams 28 Baltimore / Indianapolis Colts 27 San Francisco 49ers 25 Chicago Bears 25 Philadelphia Eagles 25 Boston / New England Patriots 25 Washington Redskins 24 Cleveland Browns 24 Miami Dolphins 23 Denver Broncos 22 Los Angeles / Oakland Raiders 22 Houston Oilers / Tennessee Titans 22 Dallas Texans / Kansas City Chiefs 20 San Diego / Los Angeles Chargers 18 Buffalo Bills 18 Portsmouth Spartans / Detroit Lions 17 Seattle Seahawks 16 Cincinnati Bengals 14 New York Jets 14 Atlanta Falcons 14 New Orleans Saints 11 Chicago / St. Louis / Phoenix / Arizona Cardinals 10 Baltimore Ravens 10 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 10 Carolina Panthers 8 Jacksonville Jaguars 7 Houston Texans
National Football League team captains
Number of Team Captains Coin Toss Procedures Choice on Penalty Option Change of ( Team ) Captains
Cleveland Browns
The Bills rivalry had its roots back to the days of the AAFC , when there was a team from Buffalo with the same name in that league . The Browns and AAFC Bills played six games , including a league championship game , before the Browns were selected to merge into the NFL and the Bills left out . After the current incarnation of the Bills joined the NFL , the Browns and Bills have played each other from time to time . Though the Browns and Bills are in different AFC divisions , a mellow rivalry has since developed between the teams due to the similarities between Buffalo and Cleveland and shared misfortune between the teams . There have been some competitive moments between the Bills and Browns as well , such as a playoff game in 1990 and two games with playoff - implications in 2007 and 2014 . Baltimore
Football
Two teams of usually between 11 and 18 players ; some variations that have fewer players ( five or more per team ) are also popular . A clearly defined area in which to play the game . Scoring goals or points by moving the ball to an opposing team 's end of the field and either into a goal area , or over a line . Goals or points resulting from players putting the ball between two goalposts . The goal or line being defended by the opposing team . Players being required to move the ball -- depending on the code -- by kicking , carrying , or hand - passing the ball . Players using only their body to move the ball .
History of the Buffalo Bills
This article details the history of the Buffalo Bills . The team began play in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League ( AFL ) and won two consecutive AFL titles in 1964 and 1965 . The club joined the National Football League ( NFL ) as part of the 1970 AFL - NFL Merger . The Bills have the distinction of being the only team to advance to four consecutive Super Bowls , but also has the dubious distinction of losing all four of them .
Super Bowl
For four decades after its 1920 inception , the NFL successfully fended off several rival leagues . However , in 1960 , it encountered its most serious competitor when the American Football League ( AFL ) was formed . The AFL vied heavily with the NFL for both players and fans , but by the middle of the decade , the strain of competition led to serious merger talks between the two leagues . Prior to the 1966 season , the NFL and AFL reached a merger agreement that was to take effect for the 1970 season . As part of the merger , the champions of the two leagues agreed to meet in a world championship game for professional American football until the merger was effected .
NFL playoffs
Often , teams will finish a season with identical records . It becomes necessary , therefore , to devise means to break these ties , either to determine which teams will qualify for the playoffs , or to determine seeding in the playoff tournament . The rules below are applied in order until the tie is broken . If three teams are tied for one playoff spot and the third team is eliminated at any step , the tie breaker reverts to step one for the remaining two teams . If multiple playoff spots are at stake , the rules are applied in order until the first team qualifies , then the process is started again for the remaining teams .
Pro Football Hall of Fame
There are also 13 at - large delegates ( usually cities that lose NFL teams keep representation on the board ; this category currently comprises St. Louis , Missouri and San Diego , California ) , and one representative from the Pro Football Writers Association . Except for the PFWA representative , who is appointed to a two - year term , all other appointments are open - ended and terminated only by death , incapacitation , retirement , or resignation . Voting
History of the National Football League
League membership gradually stabilized throughout the 1920s and 1930s as the league adopted progressively more formal organization . The first official championship game was held in 1933 . The NFL stopped signing black players in 1927 but reintegrated in 1946 following World War II . Other changes followed after the war ; the office of league President evolved into the more powerful Commissioner post , mirroring a similar move in Major League Baseball . Teams became more financially viable , the last team folding in 1952 and the league absorbing teams from the briefly more successful All - America Football Conference in 1950 , two of which survive to the present day . By 1958 , when that season 's NFL championship game became known as `` The Greatest Game Ever Played '' , the NFL was on its way to becoming one of the most popular sports leagues in the United States .
NFL playoffs
Just before the 2010 -- 11 Seahawks - Saints playoff game , McKay wanted to revisit the previous proposal to reseed teams during wild - card weekend . However , sportswriter Peter King wrote that he believed league owners were still hesitant on implementing any such changes at this time due to the then - pending 2011 work stoppage , the proposals to extend the regular season from 16 to 18 games and how it will impact the postseason , and the simple fact that not enough teams have been seriously disadvantaged by the current format .
NFL playoffs
The Super Bowl began as an inter-league championship game between the AFL and NFL , an idea first proposed by Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt . This compromise was the result of pressures the upstart AFL was placing on the older NFL . The success of the rival league would eventually lead to a full merger of the two leagues .
List of New England Patriots seasons
AFL champions ( 1960 -- 1969 ) Super Bowl champions ( 1966 -- present ) Conference champions Division champions Wild Card berth One - Game Playoff Berth
Southern United States
Though not as popular on a wider basis as the collegiate game , professional football also has a growing tradition in the Southern United States . Before league expansion began in the 1960s , the only established professional team based in the South was the Washington Redskins , who still retain a large following in many pockets of the region . Later on , the merger - era National Football League began to expand into the football - crazed Deep South in the 1960s with franchises like the Atlanta Falcons , New Orleans Saints , Houston Oilers , Miami Dolphins , and most prominently the Dallas Cowboys , who overtook Washington as the region 's most popular team and eventually became widely considered the most popular team in the United States . In later decades , NFL expansion into Southern states continued , with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers , Jacksonville Jaguars , and Carolina Panthers added to the league , while the Houston Oilers were replaced by the Houston Texans after the Oilers relocated to Nashville to become the Tennessee Titans .
History of the National Football League
On August 31 , 2007 , a story in USA Today unveiled the first changes to the league 's shield logo since 1980 , which took effect with the 2008 season . The redesign reduced the number of stars in the logo from 25 ( which were found not to have a meaning beyond being decorative ) to eight ( for each of the league 's divisions ) , repositioned the football in the manner of the Vince Lombardi Trophy , and changed the NFL letters to a straight , serifed font . The redesign was created with television and digital media , along with clothing , in mind . The shield logo itself dates back to the 1940s .
List of NFL tied games
In 2012 , the league instituted a modified sudden death overtime . If the team that received the opening kickoff instead scored a field goal , the other team had an opportunity to tie or surpass that score ; if the other team was able to tie the score , the game became a true sudden death , where the next team to score any points by any method would win . Five tied games occurred between 2012 and 2016 , averaging one per season . In three of these five games , both teams managed to score a field goal each before the 15 minutes expired in the overtime period . In the other two games , neither team scored during the overtime period ( these games would have therefore been ties under the pre-2012 overtime rules also ) . During these seasons , a total of 83 regular season games went to overtime , so 7000600000000000000 ♠ 6.0 % of overtime games finished tied under this overtime procedure .
History of the National Football League
While baseball is known as `` America 's national pastime , '' football is the most popular spectator sport in the United States . According to the Harris Poll , professional football moved ahead of baseball as the fans ' favorite in 1965 , during the emergence of the NFL 's challenger , the American Football League , as a major professional football league . Football has remained America 's favorite sport ever since . In a Harris Poll conducted in 2008 , the NFL was the favorite sport of as many people ( 30 % ) as the combined total of the next three professional sports -- baseball ( 15 % ) , auto racing ( 10 % ) , and hockey ( 5 % ) . Additionally , football 's American television viewership ratings now surpass those of other sports , although football season comprises far fewer games than the seasons of other sports .
National Football League on television
During each half of a network - televised game , there are ten prescribed commercial breaks following the official kickoff . Two are firmly scheduled , and eight others are worked in during breaks in the play .
Los Angeles Chargers
The Chargers announced their 50th Anniversary Team in 2009 to honor the top players and coaches in the team 's history . The Chargers were founded in 1959 . The team included 53 players and coaches selected from 103 nominees . The Chargers originally stated that only 50 members would be selected . Online voting by fans accounted for 50 % of the voting results ; votes from Chargers Hall of Famers and five members of the local media made up for the other 50 % . Over 400,000 votes were cast online . Dan Fouts and LaDainian Tomlinson received the first and second most votes , respectively . The team features 7 Pro Football Hall of Fame members and 11 players that were active on the 2009 Chargers team .
2017–18 NBA season
Advertisements begin to appear on league uniforms starting this season . With this , the NBA became the first of the `` Big Four '' North American professional sports league to use corporate sponsorship patches on its jerseys . As of March 6 , 2018 , there are 21 NBA teams that had signed uniform sponsorship contracts :
Philadelphia Eagles
Although the method may vary , studies that attempt to rank the 32 fan bases in the NFL consistently place Eagles fans among the best in the league , noting their `` unmatched fervor . '' Eagles fans have numerous dedicated web communities , ranking the Eagles just behind the Phillies as the dominant Philadelphia sports presence on the web .
Philadelphia Eagles
The studies note that -- win or lose -- Eagles fans can be counted on to pack their stadium . As of August 2008 , the team had sold out 71 consecutive games , and 70,000 were on the team 's waiting list for season tickets . Despite finishing with a 6 -- 10 record in the 2005 -- 2006 season , the Eagles ranked second in the NFL in merchandise sales , and single - game tickets for the next season were sold out minutes after phone and Internet lines opened .
Pro Football Hall of Fame Game
Because this game and the Hall of Fame 's induction ceremonies are scheduled on the weekend before the league 's regular four - week exhibition season begins , both teams end up playing five exhibition games instead of the normal four , and unlike the Canadian Football League ( which plays its two - game exhibition season over three weeks ) , the league does not remove antone . The last four expansion teams to have been added to the league each played in the Hall of Fame Game as their first game . In 1995 , expansion clubs Jacksonville and Carolina played each another , and in 2002 , Houston was one of the participants . When the Cleveland Browns returned to the league with a rebooted roster in 1999 , they too played in the Hall of Fame Game . The Baltimore Ravens , while officially considered as being established in 1996 , did not play in the Hall of Fame Game until 2018 . With the Ravens ' participation in the 2018 game , all 32 current NFL teams have now played in the Hall of Fame game at least once .
National Football League on television
Since the 1960s , all regular season and playoff games broadcast in the United States have been aired by national television networks . Until the broadcast contract ended in 2013 , the terrestrial television networks CBS ( $3.73 B ) , NBC ( $3.6 B ) and Fox ( $4.27 B ) -- as well as cable television 's ESPN ( $8.8 B ) -- paid a combined total of US $20.4 billion to broadcast NFL games . From 2014 to 2022 , the same networks will pay $39.6 billion for the exact same broadcast rights . The NFL thus holds broadcast contracts with four companies ( CBS Corporation , Comcast , 21st Century Fox and The Walt Disney Company / Hearst Corporation , respectively ) that control a combined vast majority of the country 's television product . League - owned NFL Network , on cable television , also broadcasts a selected number of games nationally . In 2017 , the NFL games attracted the top three rates for a 30 - second advertisement : $699,602 for NBC Sunday Night Football , $550,709 for Thursday Night Football ( NBC ) , and $549,791 for Thursday Night Football ( CBS ) .
National Football League on television
Between 1970 and 1977 , and again since 2003 , there has been no Monday night game during the last week of the season . From 1978 until 2002 , a season - ending Monday night game was scheduled . The 2003 revision permits the NFL to have all eight teams involved in the Wild Card playoffs to have equal time in preparation , instead of the possibility of one or two teams having a shorter preparation for their playoff game if they were picked to play on Saturday , instead of Sunday . This scenario , in which a team finishing its season on Monday night had a playoff game the following Saturday , never occurred .
History of the National Football League
However , the Harris Poll only allows one unaided selection of a `` favorite sport . '' Other studies and polls such as the ESPN Sports Poll and the studies released by the Associated Press ( AP ) and conducted by Sports Marketing Group ( SMG ) from 1988 to 2004 , show far higher levels of popularity for NFL football since they list from thirty to over 100 sports that each respondent must rate . According to the AP , the SMG polls from 1988 to 2004 show NFL football to be the most popular spectator sport in America . The AP stated that `` In the most detailed survey ever of America 's sports tastes '' researching `` 114 spectator sports they might attend , follow on television or radio or read about in newspapers or magazines , the NFL topped all sports with 39 percent of Americans saying they loved it or considered it one of their favorites . '' In a 2003 study conducted by SMG and released by the AP , the NFL was loved or liked a lot by 42.8 % of Americans over 18 .
National Football League on television
For this reason , if two teams share a primary media market , their games are never scheduled on the same network on the same day ( unless they play each other ) . Otherwise , the networks could theoretically have to cut away from one team 's game to show the other . Currently , three pairs of teams are affected by this rule , and are subject to additional rules described below :
History of the San Diego Chargers
In 1959 , the team began as the `` Los Angeles Chargers '' when they entered the American Football League ( AFL ) , joining seven other teams : the Denver Broncos , Dallas Texans , Oakland Raiders , New York Titans , Houston Oilers , Buffalo Bills , and Boston Patriots . The Chargers ' first owner was Barron Hilton , the son of Conrad Hilton , founder of the Hilton Hotels corporation . Lamar Hunt , who was instrumental in organizing the AFL , said that he had asked Gene Mako for a suggestion for somebody to start a team in Los Angeles and he recommended Hilton . Hunt said that he visited Hilton for less than an hour and Hilton immediately agreed to start a team .
National Football League on television
Under the current contracts , regionally shown games on Sunday afternoons are televised on CBS and Fox , which primarily carry games of AFC and NFC teams respectively ( the conference of the road team determines the broadcaster of an inter-conference game ) . Nationally televised regular season games on Sunday and Monday nights are aired on NBC and ESPN , respectively , while NBC , CBS and NFL Network share Thursday night games during the regular season . During the postseason , ESPN airs one game , NBC airs two , while CBS and Fox air the rest of the AFC and NFC games , respectively . The Super Bowl has rotated annually among CBS , Fox , and NBC since 2007 .
American football
In the United States , American Football is called `` football '' . The terms `` gridiron '' or `` American football '' are favored in English - speaking countries where other codes of football are popular , such as the United Kingdom , Ireland , New Zealand , and Australia .
NFL playoffs
In 1971 , the teams with the two best records in each conference met in the divisional round . In 1972 , the Dolphins had to take their perfect record to Three Rivers Stadium to face the Pittsburgh Steelers , who went 11 - 3 , in the AFC championship game . In 1973 , the Cowboys finished 10 - 4 but hosted two 12 - 2 teams , the Los Angeles Rams and Minnesota .
List of NFL tied games
At the NFL Spring League Meeting on May 23 , 2017 , a rule change was approved for the upcoming 2017 NFL season , which shortened overtime from 15 minutes to 10 minutes for preseason and regular season games . The intent of reducing overtime to 10 minutes was to reduce fatigue and injuries , despite concerns that doing so could also result in more tie games . However , the 2017 regular season ended without a single game ending in a draw .
NFL playoffs
The playoff structure used from 1933 to 1966 was considered inequitable by some because of the number of times it failed to match the teams with the two best records in the championship game , as only the conference winners would qualify for playoff contention . Four times between 1950 and 1966 ( in 1951 , 1956 , 1960 , and 1963 ) the team with the second - best win - loss record did not qualify for the playoffs while the team with the best record in the other conference , but only the third - best in the league , would advance to the championship game .
History of the National Football League
Lyons ' vision of a national league of existing football clubs ( which , at the time , was competing with another proposed league , again backed by baseball ) was cut short by the United States ' entry into World War I and further hampered by a flu pandemic in 1918 , which forced most of the Ohio League teams to suspend operations due to either travel restrictions or loss of players to the war effort . New York 's teams , although they were forced to reduce their schedules , continued and ( along with the few other remaining teams that survived the suspension , including the OL 's Dayton Triangles and Michigan 's Detroit Heralds ) picked up many of the stars that remained stateside . This had the effect of spreading out the talent across a broader geographic area . Over the course of 1919 , as professional football had increased in parity , teams began reaching out and participating in more barnstorming tours . By then , two informal but distinct interstate circuits had developed : one around the Eastern Seaboard ( particularly New York City , New Jersey and Philadelphia ) that played mostly on Saturdays due to blue laws , and another centered around the Midwestern region ( Illinois , Indiana , Minnesota , Wisconsin , Ohio , and upstate New York ) that played on Sundays . It was the latter that formed the basis of what would eventually become the modern National Football League .
Super Bowl
The leagues ' owners chose the name `` AFL -- NFL Championship Game '' , but in July 1966 the Kansas City Star quoted Hunt in discussing `` the Super Bowl -- that 's my term for the championship game between the two leagues '' , and the media immediately began using the term . Although the league stated in 1967 that `` not many people like it '' , asking for suggestions and considering alternatives such as `` Merger Bowl '' and `` The Game '' , the Associated Press reported that `` Super Bowl '' `` grew and grew and grew - until it reached the point that there was Super Week , Super Sunday , Super Teams , Super Players , ad infinitum '' . `` Super Bowl '' became official beginning with the third annual game . Roman numerals were first affixed for the fifth edition , in January 1971 . The
2008 New England Patriots season
As of the Patriots ' first training camp practice at Gillette Stadium on July 24 , they had the NFL maximum of 80 players signed to their roster . First - round draft pick Jerod Mayo , who was not signed until after training camp began , did not count against that limit until his signing .
New England Patriots strategy
In the view of some experts , there are only approximately five or six major offensive systems run in the NFL today .
Comparison of American football and rugby league
Prior to the 1960s , and in arena football ( an indoor variant of the American game ) from 1988 to 2007 , American football did use a one - platoon system in which most players were required to play all facets of the game , severely limiting substitution , much as rugby league ( and most other sports ) continue to do . Most levels of American football abolished the one - platoon system in the late 1940s and early 1950s , although college football re-implemented it for a short time in the 1950s and 1960s .