Professional football is played in fall and winter. Preseason starts in August. Regular season starts around the first of September and goes to January. Playoffs are in January and the Super Bowl is played the last week of January or the first week of February.
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George Blanda played for 26 seasons. He was 48 years and 109 days old when he retired from the game.
Reeves has never appeared in an NFL game to date.
The first professional football game took place on November 12, 1892 between the Allegheny Athletic Association and the Pittsburgh Athletic Club. This game is commonly recognized as the first professional game because one of the Allegheny players, William Heffelfinger, was openly paid $500 to particpate. Click on the 'Pro Football's First Game' link on this page to read more about the game and who the first professional players were that followed Heffelfinger.
According to the National Football Hall of Fame. The first game was played in 1892 in Pittsburg, PA. This is the first recorded evidence that one of the players (Heffelfinger) was paid $500 to play the game.
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