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NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
By: Marcus Williams
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 NFL Born
HOW IT ALL STARTED
 The NFL was born during a beer-fueled,
late-night meeting held in August 1920
inside the Hupmobile auto showroom in
Canton, Ohio
 1920’s new teams came and went the
league fluctuated in size from as many
as 22 to as few as ten franchises.
 The NFL is a rapid changing league
from rules to teams to logos.
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THE MERGER
 AFL-NFL Merger of 1970
 Bud Adams founder of AFL
 NFL founded in 1920
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Founders of the NFL
George Halas · Jim Thorpe · Leo
Lyons · Carl Storck · Art Ranney ·
Ralph Hay · Doc Young · Stan
Cofall · Jimmy O'Donnell · Frank
Nied
 AFL owner and commissioner of
the time Al Davis did not want an
AFL-NFL merger, thought AFL
would prosper
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EARLY STRUGGLES
NFL Commissioner Bert
Bell—an old-timer who had
been involved in running the
league since 1933—died of a
heart attack suffered in the
final minute of an intense
Steelers-Eagles game in
Philadelphia.
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The NFL barely survived World War Two, which
carried away most of its players and fans to
serve on the battlefields of Europe and the
Pacific. Several teams survived only by
temporarily merging with their rivals; for
example, the remnants of the Philadelphia
Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers joined forces to
play the 1943 season as the Phil-Pitt Steagles.
NEW COMMISSIONER
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Early the next year, after
23 rounds of disputed
voting by the league's
owners, a bright young
Los Angeles Rams
executive named Pete
Rozelle was elected the
new Commissioner.
Rozelle would serve in the
position for nearly thirty
years, overseeing the
NFL's rise to the pinnacle
of the American sports
business.
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2. Rozelle quickly followed up by
negotiating the NFL's first leaguewide TV deal in 1961. The CBS
network paid $4.65 million a year
for the right to broadcast NFL
games through the 1962 and '63
seasons.
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3. The NFL has never
looked back. Over the years,
the value of the league's
television contracts has
grown exponentially; the
current six-year deals with
NBC, CBS, FOX, and ESPN,
which are locked in through
2011, will pay the NFL's 32
teams a staggering total of
more than $12.7 billion.
PROFITABILITY
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• The National Football League is today the most
profitable and valuable economic force in sports
• The league receives more than $2 billion a year from its
television contracts alone and rakes in billions more
from sales of tickets, advertising, and merchandise
• A hard salary cap on player contracts, which fixes
spending on players' salaries at 59.5% of gross revenues,
all but guarantees profitability for even the worst NFL
teams while allowing the players to enjoy an average
salary of more than $2.1 million a year
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PLAYER SALARY
Average salary
• The average salary is 2.1
million.
• Each NFL team has 53 total
players. There are 32 NFL
teams for a total of 1,696
players. That's almost four
times the number of players
in pro football than in the
NBA
• NFL teams only play a
fraction of the number of
games each of the other
sports leagues play per year
thus less opportunities for
income.
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Highest Paid
Aaron Rodgers 22.2
Million per year
Russell Wilson
21.19Million
Ben Roethlisberger
21.85 Million
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THE SEASON AND POSTSEASON
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The NFL Season
The NFL season is 17 Weeks
long with one bye week.
Each team will play there
division rivals 2 times a year
consuming 6 of there
games.
The teams will then play 2
divisions of 4 teams such as
the AFC West , and NFC
East
The last 2 games are
determined on your record
you will play the teams
with the closest record to
yours
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The Post Season
• The first round is the wild
card round with 2 teams from
each division who had the
highest records but didn't win
the division and they will
play teams of same division to
advance to the divisional
round.
• The winner of the divisional
round will advance to the
conference championship.
• The winners will then play in
the super bowl 2 weeks after
with a pro bowl in between
for the best players to show
off their skills.
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FUN FACTS
 Super Bowl trophy valued over
$25,000.
 If you signed up for the Green Bay
Packers season ticket waiting list
today, you’d have to wait almost
1,000 years to get your tickets.
 It takes about 600 cows to make one
full season’s worth of NFL footballs.
 Though football games usually last
around 3 hours, the ball is typically in
play for only 11 minutes. Around 56%
of the game on TV is devoted to
replays.
 On Super Bowl Sunday, pizza delivery
drivers get into more accidents than
any other day of the year.
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Team, S. e. (2011, November 11). NFL History. Retrieved from shmoop.com: • http://www.shmoop.com/nfl-history/economy.html
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