NFL History

The NFL began as the APFA, The American Professional Football Association. It first start with 40 teams, some still existing in the NFL today. It was a 100$ membership fee to join the NFL.

Dayton vs. Columbus

The first match-up in NFL history begins with the Dayton flyers and the Columbus Panhandles.

SCORE

14-0

Dayton wins

The Akron Pros are the first ever NFL Champions. At the end of the season only 14 teams remained, but many more will come.

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​The Champions of the NFL

​Between 40 years the football league changed through alot, some not important but some changes

​Important changes

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• APFA changes into NFL

• The NFL holds its first draft and first televised game

• Cleveland Rams move to LA, bringing football to the west coast

• The Los Angeles Rams sign former UCLA stars Kenny Washington and Woody Strode, who will become the first African Americans to play in the NFL

​In 1960, Lamar Hunt and Bud Adams create a new football league called the American Football League (AFL)

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​The AFL logo is one of the bald eagle holding a football

Only the Kansas City Chiefs has the AFL logo left

• Joe Namath causes drafting problems in AFL and NFL

• AFL becomes televised more than NFL

• In 1966, both leagues make a championship game that determines the true football champion

• NFL team Green Bay Packers beat AFL Team Chiefs in Super Bowl I

• Green Bay Packers win Super Bowl II against AFL Team Oakland Raiders

• NFL is considered superior

• Joe Namath of the AFL team New York Jets play against NFL team Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III

• Jets win and proves AFL is also superior

• NFL and AFL merge to make one big NFL with all teams included

​The Merge

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• More teams join in while some move out of cities, as the Rams leave LA to St Louis

• Within time, the NFL becomes more popular than the MLB which makes more cities wanting to join in

• Miami, Tampa, Charlotte, Jacksonville, Baltimore, Cleveland and Indianapolis all become new cities in the NFL

• With Houston Oilers moving to Tennessee to make the Tennessee Titans, NFL fans were enrage causing Houston to have a team again in 2002 called the Houston Texans, they are the latest team in the NFL

• St louis Rams and San Diego Chargers move to LA in 2016

• Oakland Raiders leave to move to Las Vegas, the are the latest team to relocate

• In Super Bowl LV, NFL quarterback Tom Brady becomes the first and only player to receive 7 super bowl wins in his 20+ seasons

  (6 super bowls in New England Patriots, 1 super bowl in Tampa Bay Buccaneers)