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HIstory of Football

By valercri000

  • AFL-NFL

    n 1920 the American Professional Football Association was formed. This league changed its name to the National Football League (NFL) two years later, and eventually became the major league of American football.

  • Pro Football Begins.

    Representatives of four Ohio football teams meet in a automobile showroom to form a new professional football league. Called the American Professional Football Association, the organization will eventually be renamed the National Football League.

  • First Footall Game.

    First Footall Game.
    The first matchup between NFL teams, the Dayton Flyers defeat the Columbus Panhandles by the score of 14-0.

  • New Teams, Same Problems.

    More than 40 different teams will join the league, only to quickly drop out or go out of business.

  • The NFL Begins.

    The American Professional Football Association officially renames itself the National Football League.

  • 1st Playoff Game.

    At the end of the 1932 season, the Chicago Bears and the Portsmouth Spartans were tied with the best regular-season records. To determine the champion, the league voted to hold its first playoff game. Because of cold weather, the game was held indoors at Chicago Stadium, which forced some temporary rule changes

  • Football as favorite sport.

    For the first time, more people polled in a national survey choose pro football than baseball as their favorite sport.

  • 1st Super Bowl.

    The NFL's Green Bay Packers easily defeat the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs to win the first Super Bowl. More than 32,000 tickets go unsold for the game, held in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, but the game draws more television viewers than any previous sporting event.

  • 1st Halftime Show.

    Super Bowl XVI, held just outside Detroit in Pontiac, Michigan, includes the first Super Bowl musical performance by a major recording industry superstar: Motown's own Diana Ross. Ross's performance will kick off a new era in elaborately produced pregame and halftime entertainment.

  • Brett Favre Retires.

    Green Bay Packers' Brett Favre announces his retirement from football after seventeen seasons. He was the only three time MVP in NFL history and started 253 consecutive games at quarterback. He left holding the league's all-time records in passing attempts, completions, yards, touchdowns, and wins as a starting quarterback. August 2008