Super BowlThe Super Bowl is the league championshipfinal game of the National Football League (NFL) of the United States. It has served as the final game of every NFL season since 1966 replacing the NFL Championship Game and also served as the final game of every American Football League season from 1966 to 1967 prior to the AFL–NFL merger replacing the AFL championship game. Since 2022, the game has been played on the second Sunday in February. Prior Super Bowls were played on Sundays in early to mid-January from 1967 ...
American Football LeagueThe American Football League (AFL) was a major professional American football league that operated for ten seasons from 1960 until 1970, when it merged with the older National Football League (NFL) and became that league's American Football Conference (AFC). The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence. It was more successful than earlier rivals to the NFL, including not only the organizations founded under the AFL name in 1926, 1936, and 1940, but also th...
National Football LeagueThe National Football League (NFL) is a professionalAmerican 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 an 18-week regular season, which runs from...
National Football ConferenceThe National Football Conference (NFC) is a conference of the National Football League (NFL), the highest level of professional American football in the United States. The NFC and its counterpart, the American Football Conference (AFC), each have 16 teams organized into four divisions. Both conferences were created as part of the 1970 NFL merger with the rival American Football League (AFL). All ten of the former AFL teams and three NFL teams formed the AFC while the remaining thirteen NFL clubs formed the NFC. ...
AFL–NFL mergerThe AFL–NFL merger was the merger of the two major professional American football leagues in the United States at the time: the National Football League (NFL) and the American Football League (AFL). It paved the way for the combined league, which retained the "National Football League" name and logo, to become the most popular sports league in the United States. The merger was announced on the evening of June 8, 1966. Under the merger agreement, the leagues maintained separate regular-season schedules for the ...
Athletic conferenceAn athletic conference is a collection of sports teams which play competitively against each other in a sports league. In many cases conferences are subdivided into smaller divisions, with the best teams competing at successively higher levels. Conferences often, but not always, include teams from a common geographic region.Denver BroncosGeneral informationFoundedAugust 14, 1959 (1959-08-14)StadiumEmpower Field at Mile HighDenver, ColoradoHeadquarteredBroncos Park Powered by CommonSpirit, Dove Valley, ColoradoColorsSunset orange, midnight navy, summit whiteMascotThunder (live horse)Miles (costume suit)Websitedenverbroncos.comPersonnelOwnerRob WaltonCEOGreg PennerGeneral managerGeorge PatonHead coachSean PaytonPresidentDamani LeechNicknamesOrange Crush (defense, 1977–1983)No Fly Zone (defense, 2014–2018)Team historyDenver Broncos (1960–pres...
Division (sport)In sports, a division is a group of teams who compete against each other for a championship.
AFC Championship GameThe AFC Championship Game is the annual championship game of the American Football Conference (AFC) and one of the two semifinal playoff games of the National Football League (NFL), the largest professional American football league in the world. The game is played on the last Sunday in January by the two remaining playoff teams, following the AFC postseason's first two rounds. The AFC champion then advances to face the winner of the NFC Championship Game in the Super Bowl. The game was established as part of the...New England PatriotsGeneral informationFoundedNovember 16, 1959 (November 16, 1959)StadiumGillette StadiumFoxborough, MassachusettsHeadquarteredGillette Stadium Foxborough, MassachusettsColorsNautical blue, red, new century silver, whiteFight songs"Crazy Train""This Is Our House""I'm Shipping Up to Boston"MascotPat PatriotWebsitepatriots.comPersonnelOwnersKraft GroupRobert Kraft, ChairmanCEORobert KraftGeneral managerEliot WolfHead coachMike VrabelPresidentJonathan KraftNicknamesThe PatsGrogan's Heroes (1976)The Evil EmpireThe Bost...
American footballAmerican 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 field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with possession of the oval-shaped football, attempts to advance down the field by running with the ball or throwing it, while the 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 off...
2025 NFL seasonThe 2025 NFL season was the 106th season of the National Football League (NFL). The regular season began on September 4, 2025, with reigning Super Bowl champion Philadelphia defeating Dallas in the NFL Kickoff Game, and ended on January 4, 2026. The playoffs began on January 10, and concluded on February 8 with Super Bowl LX, the league's championship game, in which Seattle defeated New England at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.