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National Football LeagueThe National Football League (NFL), formed in 1920,as the American Professional Football Association. The APFA adopted the name of the National Football League in 1922. The NFL is the largest and most popular professional American football league in the world. It consists of thirty-two teams from American cities.At the end of each season, the winners of the playoffs meet in the Super Bowl.
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Between 1933 and 1966, the NFL decided its champion through a single postseason playoff game. During this period, the NFL was divided into two groupings, sometimes referred to as divisions and sometimes called conferences. The first place team in each of the two groupings at the end of the regular season played a title game to determine the championship. If there was a tie for first place, an extra playoff game was played in order to determine which team would play the title game. At various times during this period, the two groupings were called Eastern Division and Western Division ( 1933-1949); American Conference and National Conference(1950-1952); Eastern Conference and Western Conference(1953-1966).
After expansion in 1967, the NFL split the Eastern Conference into the Capitol and Century Divisions and the Western Conference into Coastal and Central Divisions, and the playoff schedule was expanded from a single game between two teams to a four team tournament, with the four divisional champions participating. The NFL champion played the AFL champion in Super Bowls I through IV.
After 1970, the AFL and NFL fully merged and underwent a realignment. Six divisions were allocated among two conferences, and after this time the Super Bowl champion was also the NFL champion. See Super Bowl for a complete list of Super Bowl winners.
In 2002, the National Football League realigned again, this time into eight divisions of four teams each. The realignment was to accommodate a 32nd team.
| Year | Team | Wins-Losses-Ties |
|---|---|---|
| 1920 | Akron Pros | 8-0-3 |
| 1921 | Chicago Staleys | 9-1-1 |
| 1922 | Canton Bulldogs | 10-0-2 |
| 1923 | Canton Bulldogs | 11-0-1 |
| 1924 | Cleveland Bulldogs | 7-1-1 |
| 1925 | Chicago Cardinals | 11-2-1 |
| 1926 | Frankford Yellow Jackets | 14-1-2 |
| 1927 | New York Giants | 11-1-1 |
| 1928 | Providence Steam Roller | 8-1-2 |
| 1929 | Green Bay Packers | 12-0-1 |
| 1930 | Green Bay Packers | 10-3-1 |
| 1931 | Green Bay Packers | 12-2-0 |
| 1932 | Chicago Bears | 7-1-6 |
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below Lightfoot the hunter passed. He was no longer studying the
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bounded away through the Green Forest, after watching the hunter
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hunter will come there. I'll just run over and make Paddy a
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Green Forest. He knew that he couldn't afford to be careless for
that most of the sad things and dreadful things that happen in
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before and they might do it again. So Lightfoot was careful to
the pond from which the Merry Little Breezes were blowing toward
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