Football

Football

By KamBreland

  • First Teams In the NFL

    First Teams In the NFL
    Only two teams currently in the NFL, the Decatur Staleys (now the Chicago Bears) and the Chicago Cardinals (now the Arizona Cardinals)

  • The First Game

    The First Game
    1920 – The legendary Jim Thorpe was named the president of the NFL, then known as the APFA. September 26, 1920- The first game featuring an APFA team was played at Rock Island's Douglas Park. A crowd of 800 watched the Independents defeat the St. Paul Ideals 48-0.

  • First Tv Game

    First Tv Game
    NBC was the first major television network to cover an NFL game, when on October 22, 1939, it broadcast a match between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Brooklyn Dodgers; the network was still only in its infancy, with only two affiliates, the modern day WRGB (now a CBS affiliate) in Schenectady and W2XBS in New York.

  • First Postseason Game

    First Postseason Game
    The first postseason game to be played under these rules was the 1958 NFL Championship Game between the Baltimore Colts and New York Giants (the so-called "Greatest Game Ever Played").

  • First Superbowl

    First Superbowl
    On January 15, 1967, the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) smash the American Football League (AFL)'s Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10, in the first-ever AFL-NFL World Championship, later known as Super Bowl I, at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles.

  • First Unbeaten Team

    First Unbeaten Team
    he 1972 Dolphins went 14–0 in the regular season and won all three post-season games, including Super Bowl VII against the Washington Redskins, to finish 17–0. The team remains the only NFL team to complete an entire season undefeated and untied from the opening game through the Super Bowl (or championship game).

  • Superbowl LII

    Superbowl LII
    Philadelphia Eagles VS New England Patriots will be the game for Superbowl LII. The game will take place February 4, 2018, 3:30 PM PST in U.S. Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, MN.