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2020 NFL season; Regular season; Duration: September 10, 2020 () – January 3, 2021 () Playoffs; Start date: January 9, 2021: AFC Champions: Kansas City Chiefs: NFC Champions: Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Super Bowl LV; Date: February 7, 2021: Site: Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, Florida: Champions: Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Pro Bowl; Site: Virtual (via ...
- January 9, 2021
- Kansas City Chiefs
- Las Vegas
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers
c. 2100–1900 BC: The beginning of the Middle Minoan civilization in Crete. [7] Bronze metallurgy and the potter's wheel are introduced, [8] as are Cretan hieroglyphs. [9] c. 2100–1800 BC – The Sintashta culture emerges in the northern Eurasian Steppe. [10] c. 2070 BC – Yu the Great establishes the Xia dynasty in China.
NFL timeline. 1920–1932: The Birth of the NFL. 1933–1939: Start of Championship Game. The 1940s: World War II mergers. The 1950s: AAFC merger. The 1960s: NFL and AFL. The 1970s: AFL–NFL merger. The 1980s and 1990s: Relocation and expansion. The 2000s: Realignment.
The 2020 NFL season was the 101st season of the National Football League (NFL). The regular season started with the NFL Kickoff Game on September 10, in which defending Super Bowl LIV champion Kansas City defeated Houston.
- Beginnings
- Birth of A New League
- Merger with The American Football League
- Modern Era
- Women
- International Expansion
- Franchise Relocations and Mergers
- Popularity
- Controversies
- See Also
American football first became a professional sport in the year of 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 Pennsylvania Senior Independent Football Conference. Throughout the 1890s and the early part of the 20th century, professional fo...
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 some of the teams declined participation. One month later on September 17, the league was renamed the American Professional Football Assoc...
In 1946, after World War II, the struggling league had headquarters in Chicago. Commissioner Elmer Layden could not handle the pressure of the AAFC set up in the same year. DeBenneville Bert Bell was hired to be the commissioner, and he accepted the office only on condition that the headquarters would move to Philadelphia. Bell had founded, owned, ...
In the 1970s and 1980s, the NFL solidified its dominance as America's top spectator sport,[citation needed] and its important role in American culture. The Super Bowl became an unofficial national holiday and the top-rated television program most years. Monday Night Football, which first aired in 1970, brought in high ratings by mixing sports and e...
In 1987, through a short stint with NBC Sports, Gayle Sierens became the first woman to do play-by-play for an NFL regular season football game when she called the December 27 game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Kansas City Chiefs. She was originally to be a regular play-by-play announcer for the season, but a contract dispute with WFLA preve...
In recent years, the NFL has expanded into new markets and ventures outside of the United States, beginning with a regular series of exhibition games known as the American Bowl, then with a European-based developmental league culminating in the now defunct NFL Europa, and starting in 2005 the league began hosting regular season games outside the Un...
In the early years, the league was not stable and teams moved frequently. Franchise mergers were popular during World War II in response to the scarcity of players. An example of this was the Steagles, temporarily formed as a merger between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles. Franchise moves became far more controversial in the late tw...
While baseball is known as "America's national pastime," football is the most popular spectator sport in the United States. According to the Harris Poll, professional football moved ahead of baseball as the fans' favorite in 1965, during the emergence of the NFL's challenger, the American Football League, as a major professional football league. Fo...
National Anthem controversy
In the 2016 preseason, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat and later knelt during the national anthem. He did it in protest of racial injustice and police brutality, and he referenced a series of African-American deaths caused by law enforcement. Inspired by Kaepernick, other NFL players conducted various forms of silent protests during the national anthem. The protests received highly polarized reactions, with some praising him and his stand against racism and others denounc...
Concussions
The league has been criticized for its efforts in preventing concussions, in which eight former players have died, and have also had concussions throughout their careers. In 1994, former commissioner Paul Tagliabue created the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee in order to study the effects of concussions on players. With the suicide of linebacker Junior Seau in 2012, concerns arose about the connection between player deaths and concussions.As a result, on April 9, 2013, a lawsuit involvin...
Feb 12, 2021 · A full 2020 NFL season seemed a tall task amid COVID-19, but the league got there. How did it do it, and what went into its toughest season yet?
Sep 1, 2022 · As the NFL prepares for its 100th season, Stacker takes a look at the league’s history from 1920–2019. What monumental football event took place in the year you were born?
