NFL Facts
NFL Facts
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| Interesting NFL Facts: |
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| The NFL is a non-profit unincorporated organization. Because it does not make a profit it does not have to pay income tax. All teams except the Green Bay Packers pay tax because they make a profit. |
| The first televised NFL game was in 1939. Approximately 500 TV sets broadcast the game in New York. |
| The NFL league is divided into the NFC and AFC conferences. Each conference is divided into four divisions with four teams in each division. |
| Each team in the NFL plays 16 games, and has one week off. At the end of the 16 games, the top six teams advances into the playoffs. |
| An NFL season consist of four weeks of pre-season, seventeen weeks of regular season, and single elimination playoff season between 12 teams. The championship game is the Super Bowl. |
| The Vince Lombardi Trophy is given each year to the winning team of the Super Bowl. It is made of sterling silver and worth more than $25,000. |
| A large percentage of professional football players are bankrupt within a few years of retiring. |
| The last segregated team in the NFL was the Washington Redskins. At the time they were also the worst team in the league. |
| Professional football players in the NFL were not required to wear helmets until 1943. |
| The NFL season is the shortest professional sports season of any major American sport. |
| In the United States more food is consumed on Super Bowl Sunday than on any other day of the year, with the exception of Thanksgiving. |
| On Super Bowl Sunday each year fewer people get married than on any other day in the United States. |
| The Green Bay Packers joined the league in 1921 and they are the longest oldest franchise in the history of the NFL. |
| In 2011, a 30 second commercial played during the Super Bowl cost the advertiser approximately $3 million. |
| It is estimated that the Super Bowl draws over 100 million viewers each year. |
| One of the most valuable NFL teams estimated to be worth $1.5 billion. |
| The longest field goal in NFL history was kicked by Tom Dempsey in 1970. He was a 22 year old New Orleans Saints kicker. Tom had been born without half of his right foot. He was also born without four fingers on his right hand. |
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