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At the end of each
regular season, six
teams from each
conference play in the
NFL playoffs, a
twelve-team
single-elimination
tournament that
culminates with the
championship game, known
as the Super Bowl. This
game is held at a
pre-selected site which
is usually a city that
hosts an NFL team.
Commercials during the
Super Bowl tend to be
quite popular among the
general public. Selected
all-star players from
both the AFC and NFC
meet in the Pro Bowl,
previously held in
Honolulu, Hawaii; up to
and including 2009, this
game took place the
weekend after the Super
Bowl. In 2010, it will
take place a week prior
to the Super Bowl, in
Miami Gardens, Florida. |
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The National Football
League (NFL) is the
largest Professional
American Football league
in the world. It was
formed by eleven teams
in 1920 as the American
Professional Football
Association, with the
league changing its name
to the National Football
League in 1922. The
league currently
consists of thirty-two
teams from the United
States. The league is
divided evenly into two
conferences — the
American Football
Conference (AFC) and
National Football
Conference (NFC), and
each conference has four
divisions that have four
teams each. The NFL is
organized as a
unincorporated
association of its 32
teams.
The regular season is a
seventeen-week schedule
during which each team
has one bye week and
plays sixteen games.
Teams play all three
other teams in their
division twice. They
also play each team from
one other division in
their conference, and
each team from one
division in the opposite
conference. The final
two games come against
the teams who finished
in the same place the
previous season in the
two divisions of their
conference not
previously played. The
season currently starts
on the Thursday night in
the first full week of
September (the Thursday
after Labor Day) and
runs weekly to late
December or early
January.
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