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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]].]]

[[Image:2006 Pro Bowl.jpg|thumb|350px|NFL quarterback [[Peyton Manning]] of the [[Indianapolis Colts]] attempts a pass at the 2007 [[Pro Bowl]].]]

The '''National Football League (NFL)''' is a professional sports league for [[American]] football in the [[United States]].  It is one of the four major sports leagues in the United States (the others being [[MLB]], [[NBA]], and [[NHL]], though it has never had a franchise in Canada).

The '''National Football League (NFL)''' is a professional sports league for [[American]] football in the [[United States]].  It is one of the four major sports leagues in the United States (the others being [[MLB]], [[NBA]], and [[NHL]], though it has never had a franchise in Canada). More so than other televised sports, the NFL encroaches on religious holidays such as [[Thanksgiving]], when it reportedly drew 42 million viewers in 2022.<ref>https://frontofficesports.com/nfl-most-watched-regular-season-game/</ref>

The league would begin to supplant baseball as America's most popular spectator sport in 1958, when the then-NFL Championship Game between the then Baltimore 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.  Today NFL franchises are a leading example of [[crony capitalism]],<ref>https://frontofficesports.com/anheuser-busch-ending-exclusive-super-bowl-deal-with-nfl/</ref> such that team owners rake in billions of dollars by milking taxpayers and promoting vices like [[beer]] and [[gambling]].  The NFL has $110 billion in media deals annually, and yet supports shockingly little [[charity]].  Far more people are harmed by the NFL than genuinely helped by it.

The league would begin to supplant baseball as America's most popular spectator sport in 1958, when the then-NFL Championship Game between the then Baltimore 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.  Today NFL franchises are a leading example of [[crony capitalism]],<ref>https://frontofficesports.com/anheuser-busch-ending-exclusive-super-bowl-deal-with-nfl/</ref> such that team owners rake in billions of dollars by milking taxpayers and promoting vices like [[beer]] and [[gambling]].  The NFL has $110 billion in media deals annually, and yet supports shockingly little [[charity]].  Far more people are harmed by the NFL than genuinely helped by it.