When was the NFL football started?

Answer 1

In 1920, the American Football League(AFL) started. Then, in 1922, it adopted the name, National Football League(NFL).

Answer 2

Representatives from several clubs in the East and Midwest gathered in Canton, Ohio, in 1920 to form the American Professional Football Association, which in 1922 changed its name to the National Football League.

Answer 3

I just read that the first College Football game was played Nov. 6, 1869 between Princeton and Rutgers, and has been professionally played since 1895. The NFL was formed in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association. The name was changed to National Football League in 1922.

It started professionally in 1920

1920.

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American footballleague that constitutes one of the four major professional sports leagues in North America. It is composed of 32 teams divided equally between the National Football Conference(NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). The highest professional level of the sport in the world,[4] the NFL runs a 17-week regular season from the week after Labor Dayto the week after Christmas, with each team playing sixteen games and having one bye week each season. Out of the league's 32 teams, six (four division winners and two wild-card teams) from each conference compete in the NFL playoffs, a single-elimination tournamentculminating in the Super Bowl, played between the champions of the NFC and AFC. The champions of the Super Bowl are awarded the Vince Lombardi Trophy. Various other awards exist to recognize individual players and coaches. Most games are played on Sunday afternoons; some games are also played on Mondays and Thursdays during the regular season. There are games on Saturdays during the first two playoff weekends. Sometimes, there are also Saturday games during the last few weeks of the regular season.

The NFL was formed on August 20, 1920, as the American Professional Football Conference; the league changed its name to the American Professional Football Association(APFA) on September 17, 1920, and changed its name to the National Football League on June 24, 1922, after spending the 1920 and 1921 seasons as the APFA. Following the NFL's merger with the All-America Football Conference at the end of 1949, the league adopted the name National-American Football League, but reverted back to National Football League three months later.[5] In 1966, the NFL agreed to mergewith the rival American Football League (AFL), effective 1970; the first Super Bowl was held at the end of that same season in January 1967. Today, the NFL has the highest average attendance (67,591) of any professional sports league in the world[6] and is the most popular sports league in the United States. The Super Bowl is among the biggest club sporting events in the world[7] and individual Super Bowl games account for many of the most-watched television programs in American history.[8] At the corporate level, the NFL is a nonprofit 501(c)(6) association. The NFL's executive officer is the commissioner, who has broad authority in governing the league.

Each team is allowed to have up to 53 players during the regular season, but only 46 can be active (eligible to play) on game days. Teams are given exclusive rights to sign free agents that have three or fewer seasons in the league, but free agents that have been in the league at least four years can sign with any team of their choosing. Each team is subject to a salary cap. The champions of the most recent season, the 2013 season, are the Seattle Seahawks, who defeated the Denver Broncos by a score of 43-8 in Super Bowl XLVIII. The team with the most championships is the Green Bay Packers, who have won 13 championships. The team that currently has the most Super Bowl championships is the Pittsburgh Steelers, who have won six.

Answer 4

NFL stands for National Football League. The league was founded in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association. The league's name was changed to the National Football League in 1922. Of the 11 original teams only two still remain: The Decatur Staleys/Chicago Bears, and the Chicago/St. Louis/Arizona Cardinals.

Answer 5

The National Football League is a loose coalition of technically independent football teams from across the state of Ohio that had existed in some form since the 1890s. An unofficial "championship" was contested since 1903. "League" powerhouses included the Canton Bulldogs, Ironton Tanks and the Massillon Tigers. The American Professional Football Association was founded in 1920 at a Hupmobile dealership in Canton, Ohio. The eleven founding teams initially struck an agreement over player poaching and the declaration of an end-of-season champion. Legendary athlete Jim Thorpe of the Canton Bulldogs was elected president. 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 in 1921, but throughout the 1920s the membership was unstable and the league was not a major national sport. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League

Answer 6

the game was a mix of Baseball and Wrestling when played fist in Canada it was played with a humman foot and not a ball

Answer 7

Canton, Ohio

Answer 8

1934