whet year did the NFL start?
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nfl strated in 1922 in 1920 was the apfl.
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During the 1820s a group of students at Princeton began playing what was then known as 'ballown'. There were no hard and fast rules applied to this earliest attempt at the game we now call football. At Harvard, the freshman and sophomore classes competed in a football-type game played on the first Monday of each school year. This event came to be known as 'Bloody Monday' because of the roughness of the game. Pick up games, similar in style to that played on 'Bloody Monday', soon became popular on the Boston Common, catching on in popularity around 1860. Soon after the end of the American Civil War, around 1865, colleges began organizing football games. \n\nIn 1867, Princeton led the way in establishing some rudimentary rules of the game. Also in that year, the football itself was patented for the very first time.\n\nIn 1873, representatives from Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, and Yale met in New York City to formulate the first intercollegiate football rules for the increasingly popular game still being played with many of the rules of soccer. These four teams established the Intercollegiate Football Association, and set the number of players allowed on each team as fifteen. Walter Camp, the coach at Yale with a desire for an eleven man team, helped begin the final step in the evolution from rugby-style play to the modern game of American Football. The IFA 's rules committee, led by Camp, soon cut the number of players from fifteen to eleven, and also instituted the size of the playing field, at 110 yards. In 1882 Camp also introduced the system of downs, but the system of downs was not finished until 1912, when the fourth down was added. Tackling below the waist was legalized in 1888.
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Corner Flag`s were on the Football Field, when the very first set of formal rules were introduced. First mentioned in 1848, but the year on the set of rules is 1862. so they have been around for a long time.
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The origins of football (soccer) are thought to be over 2000 years old. Indeed, in 2004, football's governing body FIFA officially acknowledged that China was the birthplace of football, when people played the sport of cuju around 200 BC. The rules would be changed over time into the sport played today.\n\nIt was widely play in england from middle ages (the origins are allegedly roman, but no one knows for sure), but it wasn't until 1848 the first set of rules resembling the modern game were produced at Trinity College, Cambridge. This is considered as the birth of modern football.
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The Saints joined the NFL as an expansion team in 1967.\n\nThe Saints began playing in the Superdome in 1975.
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Rugby was around long before American Football.  In fact American Football is a spin-off from Canadian Football which is a spin off from Rugby League which is a spin off from Rugby Union which is the game that we normally call Rugby.  \n\nThe famous story is that at Rugby School in England, one fine day while they were playing football (soccer), a cheeky young gent decided to pick up the ball and run with it for a lark.  The other guys ran after him and tackled him.  They soon figured out that this was kinda fun and decided to make a new game of it.  Rugby.\n\nSome scholars doubt the veracity of the story but it is a good one.\n\nAnyway the Rugby game became popular in England and Northern France before the game was ever played in North America.  Of course as Brits came to North America, they brought their games with them too.\n\nRugby was played in both Canada and the US from very early on.  It was actually Canada that developed the North American game first.  Rugby had already subdivided into Rugby League and Rugby Union.  Rugby Union is the game that most associate with the game 'Rugby' but there is another game called Rugby League which is the missing link between Rugby and American Football.\n\nIn Rugby Union, the game continues after a tackle.  In Rugby League, the game stops after a tackle and the game is restarted by the player who was tackled heeling the ball back to a team-mate.  This is the precursor to a snap in football.\n\nThis restart feature developed into an offensive line with a snap to a quarterback.  Canadians pioneered this new game and soon Americans were playing it too but they further refined the rules.  Canadian Football also predates American Football.  (yup, its true!)\n\nThere are still a few remnants of rugby in the game of American football but they are tricky to spot.  The word 'touchdown' refers to the fact that in Rugby you not only have to cross the end zone line, you also have to physically touch the ball to the ground for the score to count.  Its ironic that in American Football, you use the word 'touchdown' but you don't actually have to touch the ball down.\n\nAlso in Rugby you are allowed to pass the ball as many times as you like but it always has to be backwards.  Thus in American football you can 'lateral' the ball as much as you like.  This is from rugby.  \n\nActually in the early days of American football forward passes were not allowed.  This was a feature added later.\n\nThe conversion after a touchdown is also from Rugby.  \n\nIts really an interesting story if you look into it...
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Super Bowl V in January 1971 (following the 1970 season).  MVP was Chuck Howley, linebacker for the Cowboys who lost to the Colts 16-13 in the first Super Bowl played after the NFL and AFL merger.  The Colts, along with the Steelers and Browns, had just started playing in the AFC with the 10 teams from the AFL.\n\nDue to the number of turnovers between the two teams, Super Bowl V has always been dubbed the "Stupor Bowl."
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12-7-1963 in an Army/Navy game was the first time it was used.  Now, if you want to know about reviewing a call on the field, then it was in 1999 that the NFL adopted the challenge system.  It's been tweaked a little since then, and the NCAA has adopted its own version for its uses.
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The chinese invented football in the 2nd century BC during the Hun Dynasty.  Contrary to popular belief that the English invented football!
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There is only one kind of "football".........American football . \n\nWhy is soccer called soccer and what exactly is a soccer?\n\nAmerican football was started in 1879 with rules instituted by Walter Camp.\nDerived from the English game of rugby, American football was started in 1879 with rules instituted by Walter Camp, player and coach at Yale University. He was general athletic director and head advisory football coach at Yale University from 1888-1914, and chairman of the Yale football committee from 1888-1912. Camp played football at Yale and helped evolve the rules of the game away from Rugby and Soccer rules into the rules of American Football as we know them today.\n\nOne precursor to Walter Camp's influence was William Ebb Ellis, a student at the Rugby School in England. In 1823, Ellis was the first person noted for picking up the ball during the soccer game and running with it, thereby breaking and changing the rules. In 1876, at the Massosoit convention, the the first attempts at writing down the rules of American football were made. Walter Camp edited every American Football rulebook until his death in 1925.\n\nWalter Camp contibuted the following changes from Rugby and Soccer to American football: \n\none side retained undisputed possession of the ball, until that side gives up the ball as a result of its own violations \nthe line of scrimmage \n11 on a team instead of 15 \ncreated the quarter-back and center positions \nforward pass \nstandardized the scoring system, numerical scoring \ncreated the safety, interference, penalties, and the neutral zone \ntackling as low as the knee was permitted - 1888 \na touchdown increased in value to six points and field goals went down to three points - 1912
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1986 Chicago (oops - Bears) / Jim McMahon \n1990 San Francisco 49ers
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first superbowl for patriots was in 1986 (85 season) and the qb was Tony Eason\nTHATS IT I'M DONE!
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The first two Superbowls were not called "Superbowl".  They were called AFL-NFL World Championship Game.  They changed it in '69.
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Look up American football on wikipedia.  That should help you.  Also check out "Football for Dummies" by former Raiders player Howie Long and "The Idiot's Guide to Football" by former Redskins QB Joe Theismann.
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the texans became the kc chiefs in 1963.  there was no "buying," though, lamar hunt has owned the chiefs/texans from day one, since the start of the AFL in 1960.
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There's two parts to this:\nThe origin of American football is in the history of the world's most popular sport: soccer. When soccer -- more universaly known as "football" (which of course makes sense because soccer players use their feet) -- participants decided to change their centuries-old game with restrictions such as the no-use of hand rules, people who disliked this broke away to create rugby. In the states we have created our own version of the game under the same old name "football" with more of a rugby style, the whole time forgetting why we call it that.\n\nThe word "soccer" actually comes from England, where the   modern version of the game originated.\nIn England, there were two types of football: rugby football and association football. The slang term for rugby football was "rugger," and the slang for association football was "assoc." The word "assoc" gradually evolved into "soccer," which was much easier to say.\nWhen association football was introduced to North America, gridiron football (the type played by the NFL and in the Super Bowl) was already well established. To avoid confusion, Americans adopted the British nickname "soccer" for the new sport.
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Actually the NFL dates back to 1869. Collage teams back then, but for more in depth information go to www.nfl.com and click history and it has the decades of football information and how it all got started. You can also look up the 40 Super Bowl stats.