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The National Football League was the idea of legendary athlete Jim Thorpe and Leo Lyons. Lyons started in his home state of New York, challenging a handful of professional teams in Buffalo to a championship in 1919; the Buffalo Prospects took the challenge and won.
On August 1920 in Canton, OH that the league was formalized as the American Professional Football Conference. A month later the league was renamed the American Professional Football Association, adding Buffalo and Rochester from the New York league, Detroit, Hammond, and several other teams from nearby circuits. Only four of the founding teams finished the 1920 schedule and the undefeated Akron Pros claimed the first championship.
Membership of the league increased to 22 teams (including more of the New York teams) in 1921, but throughout the 1920s the membership was unstable and the league was not a major national sport. On June 24, 1922, the organization changed its title a final time to the National Football League.
Two charter members, the Chicago Cardinals (The AZ Cardinals) and the Decatur Staleys (The Chicago Bears), are still in existence.
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What year did Minnesota enter the NFL?
The Vikings joined the NFL as an expansion team in 1961.
What was the first NFL football team in Indianapolis?
The first NFL team in Indianapolis is the Colts.
Does a NFL team enter the playoffs when it earns a wildcard?
Yes.
Which NFL team was the first to defy convention and enter the field as a team at the Super Bowl?
Being introduced by the PA is a "modern era" football convention. You fishing for the Patriots.
Who was named America's team first in the NFL?
The Dallas Cowboys were the first team known as "America's Team". The nickname for the Cowboys was first coined in 1978, in an NFL Films highlight show.
