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As an NFL game ends and fans begin leaving the stadium, it is best to avoid the nearby roads.  One study showed that the ''average'' fan at many NFL games has a blood-alcohol level higher than safe level for driving as recommended by the NTSB.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/14/national-transportation-safety-board-drunken-driving/2158107/</ref>

As an NFL game ends and fans begin leaving the stadium, it is best to avoid the nearby roads.  One study showed that the ''average'' fan at many NFL games has a blood-alcohol level higher than safe level for driving as recommended by the NTSB.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/14/national-transportation-safety-board-drunken-driving/2158107/</ref>

The league is composed of 32 professional [[American Football|football]] teams from the [[United States]], divided into two conferences (the American and the National), each of which have four, four-team divisions. Teams play sixteen regular season games. Each team also receives a "bye" week in which it doesn't play, resulting in a 17-week regular season. Twelve teams qualify for the playoffs (the winners of each division and four "wild-card" teams, the two teams in each conference with the best record among non-division winners).  The playoff consists of four rounds:

The league is composed of 32 professional [[American Football|football]] teams from the [[United States]], divided into two conferences (the American and the National), each of which have four, four-team divisions. Teams play sixteen regular season games over seventeen weeks (each team receives a "bye" week in which it doesn't play), comprised of six games in a home-and-home against the other three teams in its division, six games against other conference opponents (two from each of the other conference divisions, over a six-year period every team will play every other conference opponent home-and-home), and four teams against all the opponents of a division from the other conference (over an eight-year period, every team will play every other team in the other conference home-and-home).

 

Twelve teams qualify for the playoffs (the winners of each division and four "wild-card" teams, the two teams in each conference with the best record among non-division winners).  The playoff consists of four rounds:

*The first round features the two wild card teams from each conference against the two division winners with the poorer records (the division winners with the best records are given a bye).

*The first round features the two wild card teams from each conference against the two division winners with the poorer records (the division winners with the best records are given a bye).

*The second round features the winners from the first round, who will go up against the two division winners that had the first-round bye.

*The second round features the winners from the first round, who will go up against the two division winners that had the first-round bye.