NFL

The National Football League (NFL) is the biggest professional American football league in the world, a non-profit organization, controlled by its members. Formed by eleven teams in 1920 originally known as the American Professional Football Association, the league changed the name to the National Football League in 1922 and currently consists of thirty-two teams from the United States and is divided evenly into two conferences ? the American Football Conference (AFC) and National Football Conference (NFC) with each conference having four divisions that each have 4 teams. The regular season is a seventeen-week schedule during where each team has one bye week and plays sixteen games. This schedule includes six games against a team's divisional rivals, as well as several inter-division and inter-conference games. The season currently starts on the Thursday night in the first full week of September and runs weekly to late December or early January. At the end of each regular season, six teams from each conference play in the NFL playoffs, a twelve-team single-elimination tournament that concludes with the championship game, the Super Bowl.