when nfl teams were founded?
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The NFL was founded as the American Professional Football Association in 1920; it renamed itself the National Football League two years later. Two of its 10 charter teams still exist: the Decatur Staleys (now the Chicago Bears) and Racine Cardinals (now the Arizona Cardinals). In 1969, the NFL and AFL merged.
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Founded in 1959 as the Boston Patriots, an original member of the American Football League (AFL), the team joined the NFL in the leagues' 1970 merger, then changed its name when it moved to Foxborough in 1971.
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The American Football Conference (AFC) is one of the two conferences of the National Football League (NFL), the highest professional level of American football in the United States. This conference and its counterpart the National Football Conference (NFC), currently contain 16 teams organized into 4 divisions.
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Arizona Cardinals, American professional gridiron football team based in Phoenix. The Cardinals are the oldest team in the National Football League (NFL), but they are also one of the least successful franchises in league history, having won just two NFL championships (1925 and 1947) since the team's founding in 1898.
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The National Football Conference (NFC) is one of the two conferences of the National Football League (NFL), the highest professional level of American football in the United States. This conference and its counterpart, the American Football Conference (AFC), currently contain 16 teams organized into 4 divisions.
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There were actually two original NFL teams. The Chicago Bears and Chicago Cardinals known as the Arizona Cardinals today. Both were the original NFL teams in the 1920 season.
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The NHL, founded in 1917, had a lineup of teams that was continually in flux during the first two-plus decades of existence. The first NHL teams were the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators and Toronto Arenas.
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San Francisco 49ers, American professional gridiron football team based in Santa Clara, California, that plays in the National Football League (NFL). The 49ers have won five Super Bowl titles (1982, 1985, 1989, 1990, and 1995) and seven National Football Conference (NFC) championships.
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Has an NFL team ever played a CFL team? Between 1941 and 1961, 10 games occurred between CFL teams and teams from the NFL and AFL (These two leagues would merge in 1966 to form the NFL as we know it today.)
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One of the NFL's original franchises plays in a stadium which lacks in many ways. The Chicago Bears have played in Chicago since 1921, and on the shores of Lake Michigan since 1971. ... Most teams around them have built massive new stadiums with retractable roofs and modern amenities, but the Bears took another approach.
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XFL (2001) The original XFL was a professional American football league that played its only season in 2001.
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From 1966–1969 prior to the merger in 1970, the NFL and the AFL agreed to hold an ultimate championship game, first called the AFL-NFL World Championship Game and later renamed the Super Bowl after 1968. Following the merger in 1970, the Super Bowl name continued as the game to determine the NFL champion.
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Detroit Lions, American professional gridiron football team based in Detroit. The Lions play in the National Football Conference (NFC) of the National Football League (NFL) and have won four NFL championships (1935, 1952, 1953, and 1957). The franchise was founded in 1930 and was based in Portsmouth, Ohio.
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Green Bay Packers, American professional gridiron football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. One of the most-storied franchises in the history of the sport, the Packers have won the most championships, 13 in total, of any National Football League (NFL) team.
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Instead of having one owner or a handful of partners like every other NFL team, the Packers are owned by hundreds of thousands of fans. In 1923, four years after the team was founded, the fledgling Packers found themselves on the verge of bankruptcy, so they sold shares to the community to keep the lights on.
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The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division.
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a professional American football team based in Tampa, Florida. The Buccaneers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division.