Who Won the NFL?
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league. The NFL was founded in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (APFA) before renaming itself the National Football League for the 1922 season. The NFL agreed to merge with the American Football League (AFL) in 1966, and the first Super Bowl was held at the end of that season; the merger was completed in 1970. Today, the NFL has the highest average attendance (67,591) of any professional
Introduction
In American professional football, the National Football League (NFL) is the top level of the sport. Based in New York City, the NFL is composed of 32 teams divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). The NFL is a professional sports league and one of four major North American professional sports leagues, which also includes baseball’s Major League Baseball (MLB), basketball’s National Basketball Association (NBA), and hockey’s National Hockey League (NHL).
The Regular Season
During the regular NFL season, there are a total of 256 games played. Each team plays 16 games over a 17-week schedule. The last week of the season is considered Week 17 and is used as a tiebreaker in the standings if needed. At the end of the regular season, the top six teams from each conference (AFC and NFC) qualify for the playoffs. The playoffs consists of four rounds of games, Wild Card Weekend, Divisional Playoffs, Conference Championships, and Super Bowl Sunday.
In order for a team to make it to Wild Card Weekend, they must first win their respective division or have one of the two best records among all non-division winners in their conference. This year, the AFC had five division winners and three Wild Card teams while the NFC had four division winners and four Wild Card teams. These 12 teams were then seeded according to their record with the #1 seeds getting a bye week while the #2 seeds hosting the #7 seeds and #3 seeds hosting #6 seeds on Wild Card Weekend.
The Playoffs
The NFL playoffs are a single-elimination tournament held after the end of the National Football League (NFL) regular season to determine the NFL champion. Six teams from each of the league’s two conferences qualify for the playoffs based on regular season records, and a seventh team is added to each conference’s playoffs through a wild card berth. These seven teams advance to a four-round postseason tournament that culminates with the holding of the NFC and AFC Championship Games, followed by the final contest, known as the Super Bowl. The league’s championship game is one of the world’s most watched sporting events[1] and has served as the television ratings blockbuster that concludes each NFL season since 1971.
The Super Bowl
The NFL (National Football League) is the largest and most popular professional American football league. It was founded in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, before changing its name to the National Football League in 1922. The NFL is made up of 32 teams, split evenly between the two conferences — the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).
The Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the NFL, and is typically played between the winner of the NFC and AFC. The first Super Bowl was played in 1967, and since then it has become one of the most watched sporting events in the world.
