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The start of the NFL
a meeting was held by representatives of the Akron Pros, Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Indians, and Dayton Triangles at the Jordan and Hupmobile auto showroom in Canton, Ohio. This meeting resulted in the formation of the American Professional Football Conference, a group who, according to the Canton Evening Repository, intended to "raise the standard of professional football in every way possible, to eliminate bidding for players between rival clubs and to secure cooperation in the formati -
NFL changes there name to NFL
changed its name to the National Football League on June 24, 1922, after spending the 1920 and 1921 seasons as the APFA. -
First Champions are Declared
In 1932, the season ended with the Chicago Bears (6-1-6) and the Portsmouth Spartans (6-1-4) tied for first in the league standings.[13] At the time, teams were ranked on a single table and the team with the highest winning percentage (not including ties, which were not counted towards the standings) at the end of the season was declared the champion. -
Pete Rozelle
After 23 rounds of inconclusive balloting, the NFL's owners elect young Rams executive Pete Rozelle to serve as NFL Commissioner. Rozelle will hold the post for 29 years. -
NFL and AFL merg
Up until the 1960s, the NFL was the dominant professional football league and faced little competition. Rival leagues included three separate American Football Leagues and the All-America Football Conference (AAFC), none of which lasted for more than four seasons (although several teams from the AAFC joined the NFL after the league dissolved in 1949). A new professional league, the fourth American Football League (AFL), began play in 1960. The upstart AFL began to challenge the established NFL i -
Desegregation of football
Receiver Bobby Mitchell signs with the Washington Redskins, becoming the first black player on the last all-white team in the NFL. The league's segregationist era is over. -
The First 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. -
Target Market
The leagues target market is sports fans with a slight majority as male but mostly any one who watches the game of football.
Demographics:
Sports Fans
All ages
NFL viewers/Supporters
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Future of the NFL
The NFL will contiune its anual season for years and years to come, with so many viewers and due to its past success this sports league will strive off the fan base and the athletes of the game forever. -
Total Revenue
The NFL including the teams make a combined amount of roughly $9.2 Billion which mostly comes from ticket sales which are split 60-40 between the home and away team.
