The National Football League
(NFL) is the largest professional American football league in the world.
It is an unincorporated/ non-profit organization 501(c)(6) association
controlled by its members. The National Football League (NFL) was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the
American Professional Football Association (the league changed the name
to the National Football League in 1922). The league currently consists
of thirty-two teams from the United States. The league is divided
into two conferences - the American Football Conference (AFC) and
National Football Conference (NFC), and each conference has four
divisions that have 4 teams each.
The regular season is a seventeen-week schedule during which each team
has one bye week and plays sixteen games. This schedule includes six
games against a team's divisional rivals, as well as several
inter-division and inter-conference games. The season currently starts
on the Thursday night in the first full week of September (the Thursday
after Labor Day) and runs weekly to late December or early January.
List of NFL
Teams
Following is a list of
professional football teams in the National Football League (NFL) along
with links to the team's website.
American
Football Conference (AFC) Football Teams
The American Football
Conference (AFC) is one of the two conferences of the National Football
League (NFL). The other is the National Football Conference (NFC). This
conference, along with the NFC, contains 16 teams. These two conferences
make up the 32 teams of the NFL.
List of
Teams in the American Football Conference (AFC):
The National Football
Conference (NFC) is one of the two conferences of the National Football
League (NFL). The NFC was created after the league merged with the
American Football League (AFL) in 1970. The NFC had 13 teams that year,
all of which played in the NFL before the merger. Meanwhile, all of the
former AFL teams along with the NFL's Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh
Steelers, and Baltimore Colts formed the American Football Conference
(AFC).
List of
Teams in the National Football Conference (NFC):
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