There are 3 games with the record of most penalty flags used. These 3 games have all had 22 penalties occur. Two games were in 1944 with Brooklyn taking on Green Bay and the other game was Chicago taking on Philadelphia. Fifty four years later, there would be another game in 1998 with 22 penalties when San Francisco took on Buffalo.
The NFL penalty flags were never red. They were white. They changed the flags from white to yellow in 1965.
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Yes, a horse collar tackle is considered a penalty in the NFL.
In the NFL, the penalty for hands to the face is a 15-yard penalty and can result in a player being ejected from the game for repeated infractions.
There have been fewer than five NFL games that have been played without any penalty flags thrown. The games occured during the 1930s and the 1940s and there have not been any flag-free games since (as of August of 2013).
The flags are red and yellow
According to the NFL rulebook, illegal formations, motions and substitutions all carry a five-yard penalty.
Yes, the horse collar tackle penalty is still enforced in the NFL.
There are no points for penalties in an NFL game.
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I think it is loss of down or a 10 yard penalty.