National
Football League (NFL) is the highest professional sports league in the
United States. NFL was founded in
august 20, 1920. At the time of its formation, its name was the American
Professional Football Conference. Only one month later, the name was changed as
the American Professional Football Association in September 17, 1920 and the
name was finally changed as the National
Football League (NFL) in June 24, 1922.
Currently 32 teams are playing in the National Football League which are divided equally between the
American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). NFL
season typically lasts for 17 weeks starting from the week after Labor Day to
the week after Christmas. Each team has to play 16 games throughout the season,
once a week.
Out of NFL’s current 32 teams, 6 teams never win a
championship in National Football League, 4 teams have never appeared in at
least one Super Bowl and 18 teams have win at least one Super Bowl. The Green
Bay Packers have made achieved the enormous victory of winning the most National Football League championship
(13 times). The Chicago Bears have won the second highest NFL championships (9
times). The present champion of National
Football League is the Baltimore Ravens.
The primary aim of NFL is not making profit. NFL is a
non-profit association that’s why this entity gets full exemption from income
tax. But the teams who are playing in the NFL have to pay income taxes as they
are making profit. NFL has three distinct officers, namely- the commissioner,
secretary and treasurer. The commissioner enjoys highest authority in the National Football League.
The
commissioner is elected by the votes of member teams. In order to be the
commissioner, an individual has to get 18 or two-third affirmative votes from
the 32 member teams. An elected commissioner has the right to appoint the
secretary and the treasurer. Besides, he has the extensive responsibilities of
negotiating television contracts, settling disputes or grievances among the
teams, employees, coaches or players of National Football League etc.
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