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NFL
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league in the United States. Composed of 32 teams, it is 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 American football in the world. Each NFL season begins annually 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 season, seven teams from each conference, including the four division winners and three wild card teams, advance to the playoffs, a single-elimination tournament, which culminates in the Super Bowl, played in early February between the winners of the AFC and NFC championship games. The NFL is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NFL On CBS
''NFL on CBS'' is an American television sports presentation show broadcast by CBS. It aired from September 30, 1956 to January 23, 1994. The show returned since September 6, 1998. The branding is used for the presentation of the National Football League. From 2014 to 2017, CBS also broadcast ''Thursday Night Football'' games during the first half of the NFL season, through a production partnership with NFL Network. History CBS' coverage began on September 30, 1956 (the first regular season broadcast was a game between the visiting Washington Redskins against the Pittsburgh Steelers), before the 1970 AFL–NFL merger. Prior to 1968, CBS had an assigned crew for each NFL team. As a result, CBS became the first network to broadcast some NFL regular season games to selected television markets across the country. From 1970 until the end of the 1993 season, when Fox won the broadcast television contract to that particular conference, CBS aired NFL games from the National Footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia Eagles
The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia. The Eagles compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC East, East division. The team plays its home games at Lincoln Financial Field in the South Philadelphia Sports Complex. The franchise was established in 1933 as a replacement for the bankrupt Frankford Yellow Jackets when a group led by Bert Bell secured the rights to an NFL franchise in Philadelphia. Since their formation, the Eagles have appeared in the NFL playoffs, playoffs 31 times, won 16 division titles (including 13 in the NFC East), appeared in four pre-AFL–NFL merger, merger NFL Championship Games, winning three of them (1948 NFL Championship Game, 1948, 1949 NFL Championship Game, 1949, and 1960 NFL Championship Game, 1960), and appeared in five Super Bowls, winning Super Bowls Super Bowl LII, LII and Super Bowl LIX, LIX. The Philadelphia Eagles rank among the best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NFL On NBC
''NFL on NBC'' is an American television sports presentation show broadcast by NBC. It aired from October 22, 1939 to January 25, 1998. The show returned since August 6, 2006. The branding is used for the presentation of the National Football League. NBC had sporadically carried NFL games as early as 1939, including the championship and Pro Bowl through the 1950s and early 1960s. Beginning in 1965, NBC signed an agreement to carry the American Football League (AFL)'s telecasts, which carried over with the American Football Conference (AFC) when the AFL merged with the NFL. NBC would continuously carry the AFL/AFC's Sunday afternoon games from 1965 through the 1997 season, after which NBC lost the AFC contract to CBS. NBC's current flagship NFL program, ''NBC Sunday Night Football'', began airing on NBC in 2006. Alongside Sunday Night Football, NBC airs the annual preseason Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, the NFL Kickoff game, the primetime game on Thanksgiving Day, and one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NFL Network
NFL Network (occasionally abbreviated on-air as NFLN) is an American sports-oriented pay television network owned by the National Football League NTP and is part of NFL Media, which also includes NFL.com, NFL Films, NFL Mobile, NFL Now and NFL RedZone. Dedicated to American football, the network features game telecasts from the NFL, as well as NFL-related content including analysis programs, specials and documentaries. The network is headquartered in the NFL Los Angeles building located next to SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, and broadcasts its worldwide feed from Encompass Digital Media (formerly Crawford Communications, and Broadcast Facilities Inc.) in Atlanta, Georgia. The network has secondary East Coast facilities in the NFL Films building in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. As of June 2023, NFL Network was available in 51.5 million television households in the United States, which was down from approximately 71.1 million households as of February 2015, as cord cut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Bay Packers
The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC North, North division. They are the third-oldest franchise in the NFL, established in 1919, and are the only non-profit, community-owned Major professional sports teams of the United States and Canada, major league professional sports team based in the United States. Since 1957, home games have been played at Lambeau Field. They hold the record for the most wins in NFL history. The Packers are the last of the "small-town teams" that were common in the NFL during the league's early days of the 1920s and 1930s. Founded in 1919 by Earl "Curly" Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun, the franchise traces its lineage to other semi-professional teams in Green Bay dating back to 1896. Between 1919 and 1920, the Packers competed against other semi-pro clubs from around Wisconsin a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NFL On Fox
The ''NFL on Fox'' (also known as ''Fox NFL'') is the branding used for broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games produced by Fox Sports (United States), Fox Sports and televised on the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox broadcast network. Game coverage is usually preceded by ''Fox NFL Kickoff'' and ''Fox NFL Sunday'' and is followed on weeks when the network airs a Doubleheader by ''The OT''. The latter two shows feature the same studio hosts and analysts for both programs, who also contribute to the former. In weeks when Fox airs a doubleheader (television), doubleheader, the late broadcast (which airs nationwide in nearly all markets, there typically being only one to three games taking place at the time) airs under the brand ''America's Game of the Week'', almost always featuring the Dallas Cowboys due to their America's Team, national appeal. Fox aired its inaugural NFL game telecast on August 12, 1994, with a NFL preseason, preseason game between the 1994 Denver Bronc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Football
American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at each end. The offense (sports), offense, the team with possession of the oval-shaped Ball (gridiron football), football, attempts to advance down the field by Rush (gridiron football), running with the ball or Forward pass#Gridiron football, throwing it, while the Defense (sports), defense, the team without possession of the ball, aims to stop the offense's advance and to take control of the ball for themselves. The offense must advance the ball at least ten yard, yards in four Down (gridiron football), downs or plays; if they fail, they turnover on downs, turn over the football to the defense, but if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs to continue the Glossary of American football#drive, drive. Points are scored primarily b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professional Gridiron Football
In the United States and Canada, the term professional football () includes the professional forms of American and Canadian gridiron football. In common usage, it refers to former and existing major football leagues in either country. Currently, there are multiple professional football leagues in North America: the two longest-running leagues are the National Football League (NFL) in the United States, and the Canadian Football League (CFL) in Canada. American football leagues have existed in Europe since the late 1970s, with competitive leagues all over Europe hiring American imports to strengthen rosters. The Austrian Football League and German Football League top division are known as the best leagues in Europe. The Japanese X-League is also a strong league that has a long history since 1971. The NFL has existed continuously since being so named in 1922. The best American football players are among the highest paid athletes in the world, with the highest salaries reaching ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NFL On ABC
The ''NFL on ABC'' is the branding used of broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games produced by ESPN and aired on ABC. Since their first time broadcasting NFL games in 1949, ABC had been a long time broadcast member of the NFL, with the network airing ''Monday Night Football'' from 1970 to 2005, playoff games and multiple Super Bowls. In 2006, ESPN took over as the exclusive rights holder to ''Monday Night Football'', and the ABC Sports division was merged into ESPN Inc. by parent company Disney. Afterward, ABC did not broadcast any game from the NFL, whether exclusive or a simulcast from ESPN, until they simulcasted an NFL Wild Card playoff game in 2016. ABC would then return to ''Monday Night Football'' in 2020, when they aired three games as simulcasts from ESPN. Since 2021, ABC simulcasts or exclusively airs some ''Monday Night Football'' games, two Saturday games during Week 18, one Wild Card playoff game, and the Pro Bowl in conjunction with ESPN. Beginning i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Goodell
Roger Stokoe Goodell (born February 19, 1959) is an American businessman who has served as the National Football League Commissioner, commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) since 2006. Goodell began his NFL career in 1982 as an administrative intern in the league office in New York under then-Commissioner Pete Rozelle. The position was secured through a letter-writing campaign to the league office and each of its then 28 teams. In 1983, he joined the New York Jets as an intern, but returned to the league office in 1984 as an assistant in the public relations department. In 1987, Goodell was appointed assistant to the president of the American Football Conference, Lamar Hunt, and under the Commissioner Paul Tagliabue filled a variety of football and business operations roles, culminating with his appointment as the NFL's executive vice president and chief operating officer in December 2001. As the NFL's COO, Goodell took responsibility for the league's football operat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Current National Football League Broadcasters
This is a list of active NFL broadcasters, including those for each individual team as well as those that have national rights. Unlike the other three Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada, major professional sports leagues in the U.S. (Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, NBA and the National Hockey League, NHL), all regular-season and post-season games are shown on American television on one of the national networks. Most preseason games are still televised by regional/local broadcasters, with selected preseason games simulcast on national networks. Background All regular-season and postseason games are shown in the United States on one of following national networks: the broadcast networks of NFL on ABC, ABC, NFL on CBS, CBS, NFL on Fox, Fox, or NFL on NBC, NBC; the cable channels NFL on ESPN, ESPN or NFL Network Exclusive Game Series, NFL Network; or streamed exclusively on NFL on Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video, ESPN+, Netfl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NFL On ESPN
National television broadcasts of the National Football League (NFL) first aired on ESPN in 1980, when the network broadcast the 1980 NFL draft. ESPN did not air live NFL games until 1987, when it acquired the rights to '' Sunday Night Football.'' In 2006, ESPN lost the rights to ''Sunday Night Football'' and began airing ''Monday Night Football'' (''MNF'') instead. Under its current broadcasting deals lasting through 2033, ESPN has live coverage of ''MNF'', sister broadcast network ABC airs selected exclusive or simulcast ''MNF'' games, and ESPN+ streams one exclusive game. ESPN/ABC also has a Saturday doubleheader during the last week of the regular season, the Pro Bowl games, the NFL Draft, one Wild Card round playoff game, one Divisional round playoff game, and the Super Bowl in 2027 and 2031. Studio programming includes ''Monday Night Countdown,'' '' Sunday NFL Countdown'', '' NFL Live'', '' NFL Primetime'', '' NFL Matchup'', ''Monday Blitz'', and ''Fantasy Football Now''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
