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[[Image:2006 Pro Bowl.jpg|thumb|350px|NFL quarterback [[Peyton Manning]] of the [[Indianapolis Colts]] attempts a pass at the 2007 [[Pro Bowl]].]]
 
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The '''National Football League (NFL)''' is a professional sports league for American football in the [[United States]].  In its televised form, the combination of uncertainty, patterns of multiple moving players, violence, and [[emotional gambling]] is highly addictive in some people, and has been described by many as [[demonic]].
 
  
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== History ==
 
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The NFL was originally formed in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association and adopted its current name in 1922.  Only two teams from the league's founding remain in operation today: the Chicago Cardinals (now the [[Arizona Cardinals]]) and the Decatur Staleys (now the [[Chicago Bears]]).<ref>The [[Green Bay Packers]], considered one of the NFL's historic franchises, played its first two seasons as an independent club before joining in 1921.</ref>  Then Staleys coach (and owner) George Halas is credited with being the father of the league and is compared to [[George Washington]] by many enthusiasts of the game.
 
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During its existence it has merged with all or parts of three rival football leagues:
 
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*In 1937 the Cleveland Rams -- now the [[Los Angeles Rams]] -- switched from the American Football League (no relation to the 1960's league of the same name) to the NFL.
 
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*In 1950 it absorbed three teams from the All-America Football Conference (the [[Cleveland Browns]], the [[San Francisco 49ers]], and a team called the Baltimore Colts which is not related to the current franchise called the [[Indianapolis Colts]]).
 
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*In 1970 it merged with the American Football League, which began operations in 1960.  As part of the merger agreement, beginning in 1967 it hosted a championship game between the leagues, which is now today's [[Super Bowl]].  Also, in order to equalize the number of teams between what would be the [[National Football Conference]] (comprised of NFL teams) and the [[American Football Conference]] (comprised of AFL teams), three NFL teams -- the Browns, the Colts and the [[Pittsburgh Steelers]] -- were moved to the AFC.
 
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Otherwise, the league has grown through expansions into new markets, which has proven tremendously successful: as an example it expanded into [[Dallas]] in 1960 with the [[Dallas Cowboys]] franchise, which is the league's most valuable and among the most valuable of all sports franchises worldwide.  It is also very active in teams relocating to other markets (and sometimes returning, such as the Los Angeles Rams moving from Cleveland to Los Angeles, then moving to St. Louis and then returning back to Los Angeles).
 
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The league would begin to supplant baseball as America's most popular spectator sport in 1958, when the then-NFL Championship Game between the Colts and the [[New York Giants]] was broadcast nationwide (though ironically not in New York City) and ended in a sudden-death overtime win by the Colts.
 
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==Arrangement and League Play==
 
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The league is composed of 32 professional [[American Football|football]] teams from the [[United States]] (of the four major professional sports leagues it is the only one not to have a team located in [[Canada]], and in its long history never has), divided into two conferences (the American and the National), each of which have four, four-team divisions.  Although the divisions have "directional" names (East, North, South, and West) they have little meaning geographically (for example, the NFC East is comprised of the New York Giants, Philadelphia, Washington and Dallas, notwithstanding that Carolina is further east and geographically closer than Dallas to the other three teams) and much to do with rivalry and media (the aforementioned NFC East comprises four top-10 media markets, and all four teams have long-standing historic rivalries with each other; Dallas-Washington being the most well-known).
 
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|+<big>NFL Teams by Conference</big>
 
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!colspan="4"|AFC
 
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!colspan="4"|NFC
 
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!East Division !! North Division !! South Division !! West Division!!East Division !! North Division !! South Division !! West Division
 
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*[[Buffalo Bills]]
 
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*[[Miami Dolphins]]
 
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*[[New England Patriots]]
 
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*[[New York Jets]]
 
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*[[Baltimore Ravens]]
 
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*[[Cleveland Browns]]
 
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*[[Pittsburgh Steelers]]
 
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*[[Houston Texans]]
 
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*[[Indianapolis Colts]]
 
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*[[Denver Broncos]]
 
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*[[Kansas City Chiefs]]
 
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*[[Las Vegas Raiders]]
 
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*[[Los Angeles Chargers]]
 
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*[[Dallas Cowboys]]
 
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*[[New York Giants]]
 
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*[[Philadelphia Eagles]]
 
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*[[Washington Football Team]]
 
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*[[Chicago Bears]]
 
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*[[Detroit Lions]]
 
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*[[Green Bay Packers]]
 
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*[[Minnesota Vikings]]
 
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*[[Carolina Panthers]]
 
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*[[New Orleans Saints]]
 
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*[[Tampa Bay Buccaneers]]
 
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*[[Arizona Cardinals]]
 
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*[[Los Angeles Rams]]
 
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*[[San Francisco 49ers]]
 
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*[[Seattle Seahawks]]
 
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Each team is permitted to have 55 players on its roster; however, only 48 may be active (eligible to play) on game day.  Each team is also allowed 12 additional players on a "practice squad"; any team can sign a player from another team's practice squad to its main roster without compensating the other team.
 
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The NFL does not operate a minor league system nor does it have working arrangements with any other football league (such as the [[Canadian Football League]]) for player development.  A player may be drafted (or sign as an undrafted free agent) once the player has been out of high school for three seasons.  A player may declare himself eligible for the draft and is permitted a window whereby he can revoke his decision, except if the player has signed with a sports agent the decision is irrevocable.
 
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Teams play 16 regular season games (eight at home and eight on the road) over 17 weeks, with each team receiving a "bye" week roughly in the middle of the season, comprised of:
 
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*Six games in a home-and-home against the other three teams in its division (the 17th week of the season features only divisional matchups),
 
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*Four teams against all the opponents of a designated division from the other conference,
 
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*Four teams against all the opponents of a designated division from the same conference, and
 
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*Two games against conference opponents of the non-designated divisions of the same conference for that year; the teams will be those which finished in the same place in the standings in their respective divisions (i.e. the first place team plays the other two first place teams, etc.).
 
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As an example, the [[Green Bay Packers]] finished first in the NFC North after the 2020 season.  They will therefore play the following teams during the 2021 season:
 
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*[[Chicago Bears|Chicago]], [[Detroit Lions|Detroit]] and [[Minnesota Vikings|Minnesota]], their NFC North Division Rivals,
 
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*All four teams from the AFC North ([[Baltimore Ravens|Baltimore]] [[Cincinnati Bengals|Cincinnati]], [[Cleveland Browns|Cleveland]] and [[Pittsburgh Steelers|Pittsburgh]], which is their designated inter-conference division for that year,
 
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*All four teams from the NFC West ([[Arizona Cardinals|Arizona]] [[Los Angeles Rams]], [[San Francisco 49ers|San Francisco]] and [[Seattle Seahawks|Seattle]], which is their designated intra-conference division for that year, and
 
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*The other teams from the NFC (besides the West) which also finished first in their divisions: that would be [[New Orleans Saints|New Orleans]] (NFC South) and [[Washington Football Team|Washington]] (NFC East).
 
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The season generally begins on the Thursday after [[Labor Day]] and concludes the week after [[Christmas]].  Most games are played on Sunday, with one or more games played on Monday and on Thursday as well.  Games are not played on Friday or Saturday during most of the season due to federal laws prohibiting NFL games competing with high school or college games; the league will play some Saturday games once the college football season ends and has very rarely played on Friday.
 
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At season's end, seven teams from each conference (the winners of each division and three "wild-card" teams which are the teams in each conference with the best record among non-division winners), or 14 teams total, make the playoffs.  The remaining 18 teams, in strict reverse order of finish, receive the first 18 picks in each of the seven rounds of the subsequent NFL Draft (the NFL does not use a "lottery" system like the [[NBA]]), which can be freely traded between teams subject to league rules (or, if a team is disciplined for conduct, can be forfeited).
 
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The playoff teams are seeded in each conference as 1 (the division winner with the best record in the conference; that team gives a first-round bye and has home-field advantage through the conference championship), 2 through 4 (the next three division winners based on record; they will have home-field advantage against any lower-seeded opponent through the conference championship), and 5 through 7 (the three wild-card teams based on record; they will play their initial playoff games on the road and would only host a playoff game against a lower-seeded wild-card team with the 7 seed not able to host any games).  A division winner will always be seeded higher than a wild-card team even if the wild-card team has a better regular-season record.
 
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The playoff consists of four rounds:
 
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*The first round features the 2 through 4 division winners vs. the 5 through 7 wild-card teams, with the matchups being 2-7, 3-6, and 4-5.
 
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*The second round features the winners from the first round and the 1 seed; the playoff matchups are based on the prior week's results with the 1 seed hosting the lowest-remaining seed and the highest-remaining seeded team hosting the second-lowest seeded team remaining (for example, if the 2, 4, and 6 seeds win, the matchups would be 1-6 and 2-4).
 
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*The third round is the "conference championship", featuring each second round winner; the team with the highest seed hosts.
 
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*The playoffs culminate in the NFL's championship game, the [[Super Bowl]], featuring the winners from each conference.  The Super Bowl is played at a pre-determined location: not until Super Bowl LV would a team play a Super Bowl game in its own stadium (the [[Tampa Bay Buccaneers]] in Raymond James Stadium).
 
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The league's "all-star game", the Pro Bowl, is played the week before the Super Bowl; as such, in order to avoid injuries which could affect the outcome of the Super Bowl, Pro Bowl players from the Super Bowl participating teams do not play in that game.  The night before the Super Bowl is when regular season awards are announced, such as the league MVP and new entrants into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
 
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==Controversy==
 
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{{See also|Unplug the NFL}}
 
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The NFL is a [[politically correct]] sports league that is subsidized by taxpayers to the tune of $1 billion per year, and is so heavily influenced by the [[liberal media]] that [[Christian]] players are typically not even allowed to express their [[faith]].  The league relies heavily on [[emotional gambling]] and monetary [[gambling]], as well as violence, for its popularity among television viewers.  Due to its dependence on the pro-gay media, the NFL typically promotes the [[homosexual agenda]]. While fining its players for doing various acts of self-expression, including patriotic and pro-police acts, the NFL does not fine players for dishonoring the United States, our flag, and our [[National anthem|anthem]].<ref>Nolte, John (September 25, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2017/09/25/nfl-hates-america-9-pieces-proof/ The NFL Hates America: 9 Pieces of Proof]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved September 26, 2017.</ref>
 
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The NFL is the only sports league that excludes a player for quoting frequently from the [[Bible]], as the NFL apparently did in banishing [[Tim Tebow]] despite his success when allowed to play.
 
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Poor cities are routinely looted by NFL owners under threat of moving the team to another location, which leaves the cities with huge bills to pay on empty stadiums.  Minneapolis taxpayers had to pony up $500 million in 2012 to prevent the Vikings from moving to L.A., and $350 million in taxpayer funding was not enough for St. Louis to keep the Rams.  The city of Pontiac, Michigan, has had to sue to seek repairs of safety and zoning violations at the abandoned Pontiac Stadium, which hosted the [[Super Bowl]] in 1982.
 
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{| class="wikitable"
 
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! NFL-related activity !! Amount in Revenue
 
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| [[Fantasy football]] ([[gambling]]) || $11 billion per year
 
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| Televised games and team sales || $10 billion per year
 
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| Taxpayer subsidies || $1 billion per year
 
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| Charity || Very small
 
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No other sports league bilks the taxpayers as much as the NFL does, and 29 out of 30 current stadiums<ref>The New York Giants and the New York Jets share a stadium, as do the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers.</ref> were built using millions of dollars in taxpayer funding.<ref name="HuffPost">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/taxpayers-nfl-stadiums_55f08313e4b002d5c077b8ac  One of the exceptions is MetLife Stadium, where taxpayers are still paying for the old stadium that was torn down.</ref>  "Taxpayers have spent nearly $3 billion on the 16 stadiums that" hosted the NFL games that opened the 2015 season.<ref name="HuffPost"/>  "Field of Schemes" is a website that exposes many of these ripoffs of the public by the NFL, such as how the [[Democrat]] governor of [[Missouri]] was "proposing to hand $400 million to [the] Rams owner," including $100 million to pay off the debt on the last stadium that was built for the team.<ref>http://www.fieldofschemes.com/2015/10/07/9912/st-louiss-taxpayers-hidden-rams-stadium-costs-arent-quite-worth-215m-but-theyre-still-pretty-bad/</ref>
 
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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>
 
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The NFL was recently listed as one of numerous leftist-controlled companies that have gone "[[woke]]" and now support the criminal rioters of [[Antifa]] and [[Black Lives Matter]] in the wake of the [[2020 leftist riots]].<ref>[https://gab.com/a/posts/104311289660016704 Here Are The Companies That Support Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and Want You Dead] at Gab.com</ref>
 
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==References==
 
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{{Reflist}}
 
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== External links ==
 
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*[http://www.nfl.com/ Official Site of the National Football League]
 
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*[http://www.nfl.com/history NFL History]
 
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