NFL – National Football League Products Overview of the NFL The
National Football League is the professional American football
organization and was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the
American Professional Football Association, changing to the
National Football League in 1922. The league consists of 32
teams from the United States and 2 conferences — the American
Football Conference (AFC) and National Football Conference
(NFC), each with 4 divisions and with 4 teams in each. The NFL
is organized as an association of its 32 teams. It is the best
attended sports league in the world by average attendance per
game, with over 65,000 fans per game in a recent regular season.
The regular season is a 17 week schedule of each team playing 16
games. The season starts on a Thursday during the 1st full week
of September (the Thursday after Labor Day) and runs weekly till
late December or early January. At the end of each regular
season, 6 teams from each conference play in the playoffs, a 12
team single-elimination tou