The National Football League (NFL) is the largest professional American football league, consisting of thirty-two teams from American cities. The league was formed in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, which adopted the name "National Football League" in 1922. The NFL is one of the major professional sports leagues of North America.
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Prior to the 1960s, the most popular version of American football was played
collegiately. The NFL's greatest spurt in popularity came in the 1960s and
1970s, after the 1958 NFL championship game which went into overtime, and with
the merger of the rival American Football League (1960-1969) which introduced
major on- and off-the-field innovations that were eventually adopted by the NFL.
In recent decades, the NFL traditionally started the regular season on Labor Day
Weekend and lasted through Christmas week. However, declining television ratings
on Labor Day have pushed the start of the regular season ahead one week (which
is where scheduling currently stands), although for the past two years, the
regular season has begun on the Thursday after Labor Day.
At the end of each season, the winners of the playoffs in the American Football
Conference and the National Football Conference meet in the NFL championship,
the Super Bowl, held at a pre-selected neutral site. One week later, selected
all-star players from both the AFC and NFC meet in the Pro Bowl, currently held
in Hawaii.
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