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    History of the National Football League - Wikipedia

    • The National Football League (NFL) was founded in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (APFA) with ten teams from four states, all of whom existed in some form as participants of regional leagues in their respective territories. The league took on its current name in 1922. The NFL was the first professional football league to successfully estab… See more

    Beginnings

    American football first became a professional sport in 1892, when Pudge Heffelfinger and Ben "Sport" Donnelly each received a gigantic sum of cash to play for the Allegheny Athletic Association of the Western P… See more

    Birth of a new league

    On August 20, 1920, at a Hupmobile dealership in Canton, Ohio, the league was formalized, originally as the American Professional Football Conference, initially consisting only of the Ohio League teams, although so… See more

    The Birth of the National Football League - HISTORY
    Learn how 14 pro football teams formed the American Professional Football Association (APFA) in 1920 and renamed it the National Football League (NFL) in 1922. Discover the challenges, controv…
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