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  National Football League - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The NFL is the only organization among the four major professional sports leagues of North America to have all of its teams in the United States; the MLB, NBA, and NHL have one, one, and six teams in Canada, respectively.
The NFL is able to utilize the possible relocation of a franchise to Los Angeles as a threat, for example when trying to persuade local governments to contribute to the cost of new stadiums for its other franchises.
For the 2004 season, the NFL's salary cap was $80.582 million, an increase of $5.5 million from 2003.
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The NFL is one of the major professional sports leagues of North America.
The minimum salary for an NFL player is $230,000 in his first year, and rises after that based on the number of years in service.
The 1958 NFL championship in New York -- considered by many to be the most-important game in the rise of the NFL -- drew record TV viewership and made national celebrities out of Unitas and his Baltimore Colts teammates.
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The NFL's greatest spurt in popularity came in the 1960s and 1970s, after the 1958 NFL championship game which went into overtime, and with the merger of the rival American Football League (1960-1969) which introduced major on- and off-the-field innovations that were eventually adopted by the NFL.
At the end of each season, the winners of the playoffs in the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference meet in the NFL championship, the Super Bowl, held at a pre-selected site, usually in a city that hosts an NFL team.
The NFL season begins with most teams playing four "pre-season" exhibition games from early August through early September; the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game and American Bowl don't count towards the normal allottment of four games and therefore the four teams playing in those games play five exhibition games.
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 ESPN.com - Page2 - The List: 10 greatest NFL records
Sanders and Smith were the running backs of the '90s; in the eight seasons between 1990 and 1997, Sanders led the NFL in rushing four times; the other four times, Smith led the league.
Coming into this season, in which the quadragenarian is playing at his usual extraordinary level for the Raiders, Rice held no less than eight receiving records, including most career pass receptions, most consecutive games with a reception, most seasons with 1,000 or more yards receiving, and most receiving TDs in a season.
Beginning with Cleveland in 1960, and continuing through 19 seasons with the Vikings from 1961 through 1979, the defensive end was a quiet mainstay of the Purple People Eaters, the line that anchored one of the greatest defenses in NFL history.
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 ESPN.com - NFL - Cap cuts: Teams begin salary cap purge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Steelers release two veterans: Nine-year veteran quarterback Tommy Maddox, who resurrected his NFL career with the Pittsburgh Steelers but lost his starting job to then-rookie Ben Roethlisberger in 2004, was released on Friday, as the Super Bowl XL champions continued to make moves to get under the 2006 salary cap.
Though he had no realistic chance to play again, the Falcons continued to list him as questionable on the injury reports they filed to the NFL through Week 16.
Though they plan to keep Dexter Coakley, they have released Chris Claiborne, whom they signed to be their starting middle linebacker last season.
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 ESPN.com - Page2 - The List: NFL's most overpaid
Calculating NFL salaries is part science, part art, with "caponomics" pretty much being a profession in and of itself.
He conceded the season a few weeks ago, then blamed his players, while appearing to take the blame himself ("We've done a lousy job of teaching 'em so far," a classic of pithy doublespeak that shows he has learned something during his months in D.C.).
Even before the two-time Pro Bowl defensive end was sidelined early in October for the remainder of the season, the Packers were disappointed by their new free agent's performance.
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 National Football League Biography,info
[edit] Regular season games played outside of the U.S. To date, only one NFL regular season game has been played outside of the U.S., that being the 2005 game between the Arizona Cardinals and the San Francisco 49ers, which was played in Mexico City.
National broadcasts of marquee matchups usually occur on Sunday and Monday nights, and later in the season (after the completion of the NCAA football season) on Thursday and Saturday nights as well.
During the last week of the season, the league could also re-schedule games as late as six days before the contests so that all of the television networks will be able to broadcast a game that has playoff implications.
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 National Football League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For more details on this topic, see NFL Playoffs.
Players and their agents may negotiate with clubs for higher salaries, and frequently do.
NFL TV and Radio Broadcast Partner Schedule, NFL.com
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The Indianapolis Colts are the NFL's last unbeaten team, improving to 8-0 with a 27-20 victory at New England on Sunday night.
Indianapolis went 13-0 last year before losing and is the second team ever to start consecutive seasons with eight wins.
Green Bay did it for three seasons, 1929-31.
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