In which year was the National Football League (NFL) founded in the USA?

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).

The NFL is one of the four major North American professional sports leagues and the highest professional level of American football in the world. Its eighteen-week regular season runs from early September to early January, with each team playing seventeen games and having one bye week.

Following the conclusion of the regular season, seven teams from each conference (four division winners and three wild card teams) advance to the playoffs, a single-elimination tournament culminating in the Super Bowl, which is usually held on the first Sunday in February and is played between the champions of the NFC and AFC. The league is headquartered in New York City.

The NFL was formed in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (APFA) before renaming itself the National Football League for the 1922 season.

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Al Breyette

Would have been a good question but again with Lilly only one answer option was realistic. The other three options were ridiculous.

Nicholas Miernicki

The two remaining charter members of the league just played one another last Sunday: Arizona Cardinals (previously the St. Louis Cardinals and before that the Chicago Cardinals) and the Chicago Bears (previously the Decatur Staleys). I can remember my uncle listening to the Chicago Cardinals games on the radio, in the years before the NFL was televised. That was a long time ago.

Alex Markin

I knew it. Only Lilly would come up with 3 improbable options.

Jerry Edwards

LevibatteryCSA (Dave), Bennet Omalu, a world renowned pathologist, identified the main reasons why so many American footballers suffer with brain injuries playing the sport.. I strongly recommend the film "Concussion" with Will Smith.