The National Football League (NFL)
is the highest level of professional American football in the United States. 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, for a total of 16 teams in each conference. The NFL is organized as an unincorporated 501(c)(6)[1][2][3] association, a federal nonprofit designation for tax-exempt professional football leagues,[4] comprised of its 32 teams.[5][6] The NFL is by far the most attended domestic sports league in the world by average attendance per game, with 67,509 fans per game in the latest regular season (2009).[7]
The regular season is a seventeen-week schedule during which each team plays sixteen games and has one bye week. 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. At the end of each regular season, six teams from each conference (at least one from each division) 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.
NFL Power Rankings Week 8:
Week 7 of NFL football brought us incredible upsets and ridiculous blowouts, and now it's time to power-rank all of the teams in the league as we move towards Week 8.
Teams like the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New England Patriots have continued their dominance throughout the season, and preseason favorites like the Minnesota Vikings and the Dallas Cowboys continue to struggle.
The San Francisco 49ers couldn't get it together after a Week 6 win over the Oakland Raiders, and the New York Giants have left yet another team banged-up.
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Buffalo Bills vs. Kansas City Chiefs Live Online
Match Details
When: 31-10-2010 from 16:00 until 19:30(GMT/UTC)
Week 8 - NFL Regular Season 2010/2011
is the highest level of professional American football in the United States. 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, for a total of 16 teams in each conference. The NFL is organized as an unincorporated 501(c)(6)[1][2][3] association, a federal nonprofit designation for tax-exempt professional football leagues,[4] comprised of its 32 teams.[5][6] The NFL is by far the most attended domestic sports league in the world by average attendance per game, with 67,509 fans per game in the latest regular season (2009).[7]
The regular season is a seventeen-week schedule during which each team plays sixteen games and has one bye week. 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. At the end of each regular season, six teams from each conference (at least one from each division) 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.
NFL Power Rankings Week 8:
Week 7 of NFL football brought us incredible upsets and ridiculous blowouts, and now it's time to power-rank all of the teams in the league as we move towards Week 8.
Teams like the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New England Patriots have continued their dominance throughout the season, and preseason favorites like the Minnesota Vikings and the Dallas Cowboys continue to struggle.
The San Francisco 49ers couldn't get it together after a Week 6 win over the Oakland Raiders, and the New York Giants have left yet another team banged-up.
Today Watch The competition match
Buffalo Bills vs. Kansas City Chiefs Live Online
Match Details
When: 31-10-2010 from 16:00 until 19:30(GMT/UTC)
Week 8 - NFL Regular Season 2010/2011
