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American Football, also known as Gridiron outside of North America, is a sport originating in 1869. The game involves two teams of eleven players competing on a rectangular field to score the most points. The sport is very popular in America, having millions of fans.

History

For a comprehensive overview on the history of the sport, please refer to the Wikipedia article on American Football.

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league comprised of 32 teams that are based out of various regions across the United States and divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). Since its foundation in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (APFA) and renaming to the National Football League in 1923, the NFL has continuously evolved into the most popular sports league in the United States over the course of almost a century. Every year, the NFL season begins with each team playing four or five pre-season exhibition matches, followed by 16 games per team during the regular season, from which the six best-performing teams of both conferences advance to the postseason playoffs in a single-elimination tournament that culminate in the annual Super Bowl game between the champions of the NFC and AFC.

The Super Bowl

The NFL agreed to merge with the American Football League (AFL) in 1966, and the first Super Bowl was held at the end of that season; the merger was completed in 1970. . The Super Bowl is among the biggest club sporting events in the world and individual Super Bowl games account for many of the most watched television programs in American history, all occupying the Nielsen’s Top 5 tally of the all-time most watched U.S. television broadcasts by 2015.

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In the United States, American football has consistently ranked as the most popular professional sport in the poll for over three decades since 1985, when it surpassed baseball for the first time. It also boasts one of the most extensively organized league systems for any competitive team sports in the world, which consists of professional-level (NFL), collegiate-level (NCAA), high school (NFHS) and youth football leagues (in the order of popularity). The NFL is the most popular sports league out of the four major professional sports played in North America, the other three being the Major League Baseball (MLB), National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Hockey League (NHL), and it enjoys the highest average attendance (67,591) of any sports league in the world. In addition, the Super Bowl, the annual championship game of the NFL, is widely considered an unofficial national holiday and consistently ranks among the most-watched club sporting events in the world.

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