The National Football League (NFL) is a proficient American football federation that consists of 32 units, separated equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).
The NFL is one of the foremost proficient sports unions in the United States and Canada and the highest skilled level of American football in the world.
Each NFL season initiates yearly with a three-week preseason in August, followed by the 18-week normal season, which varies from early September to early January, with each unit playing 17 games and keeping one bye week.
Following the close of the normal season, seven teams from each forum, including four division champs and three wild card teams, advance to the playoffs, a single-elimination contest, which tops in the Super Bowl, played in early February between the victors of the AFC and NFC championship matches.
The NFL was begun in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (APFA) before renaming itself the National Football League for the 1922 season.
After originally choosing winners through end-of-season standings, a playoff plan was executed in 1933 that topped the NFL Championship Game until 1966.
Following an accord to connect the NFL with the rival American Football League (AFL), the Super Bowl was first kept in 1967 to pick a winner between the best groups from the two leagues and controls the final game of separately NFL seasons since the union was finished in 1970.
The NFL is the richest professional sports association in the world by income and the sports league with the most practical teams.
The NFL also holds the highest moderate attendance (67,591) of any proficient sports coalition in the world and is the numerous popular sports club in the United States.
The Super Bowl is also among the most-watched sporting occasions in the globe, with the respective games accounting for numerous of the most-watched television agendas in American record and all amusing the top five of Nielsen’s all-time most-watched U.S. television broadcasts by 2015. It is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan.
The Green Bay Packers keep the multiple combined NFL titles with thirteen, succeeding nine titles before the Super Bowl era and four Super Bowls later.
Since the outcome of the Super Bowl, the New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers are tied for the multiple Super Bowl wins at six each. The reigning club winners are the Kansas City Chiefs, who beat the San Francisco 49ers by a score of 25–22 in Super Bowl LVIII.