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After the regular football season, the NFL schedule moves into the playoffs, which ultimately lead up to the Super Bowl. In regular-season games, teams compete for the best win-loss records, and those teams with the best records advance to the playoffs. The playoffs, meanwhile, decide who goes on to the Super Bowl.
The NFL schedules all those regular-season games — 512 in a typical season — to separate the good teams from the bad. On every level of sports, people want to declare a champion. In the NFL, a total of 12 teams qualify for what amounts to the road to the Super Bowl.
The Super Bowl is the NFL championship game. It pits the winner of the AFC against the champion of the NFC. The game was born out of the merger agreement between the former AFL and the NFL in 1966.
Six teams from each conference qualify for the playoffs, with the four division winners qualifying automatically. These winners are joined by two teams called wildcard teams, who qualify based on the win-loss records of the remaining teams in each conference that didn’t finish first in their respective divisions. Read the rest of this entry »
Football is one of the most popular games played in almost every corner of the globe. But, do you know about the invention of football and how the game has developed over the years? Let’s take a look at the history of this wonderful game.
There are many sports being played all over the world, but if we need to acknowledge one as the king of all sports, it has to be football. But, wait a minute; what sport are we talking about? Different parts of the world relate football to different sports. For us, here in the US and Canada, it’s American football, down under they mean Australian rules football, in Ireland it is Gaelic football and the rest of the world understands it as what we know as soccer. Damn! That’s a lot of interpretations. While we discuss the invention of football, we’ll talk in brief only about the two most popular and widespread forms of football i.e. American football and Soccer. Read the rest of this entry »
For those of you who are too young, the United States Football League (USFL) was a league that competed against the NFL back in the middle 1980’s that featured great future NFL players such as Steve Young and Jim Kelly. It also almost forced the NFL to create a merger due to the popularity of the league.
However, a merger never occurred and just like the XFL and other leagues it collapsed and has been forgotten by many. At my age, I do not remember the XFL and was not alive when the USFL was around. I did, however, get to go to Arena Football League (AFL) games. I absolutely loved them and while I do not know why, AFL games just felt different than NFL games. Read the rest of this entry »