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	Arena Football League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eventual Arena Football League (AFL) founder Jim Foster, a former National Football League and United States Football League executive, originally had a contract in hand in 1983 to play an exhibition game on the NBC television network, two decades before the first regular season games appeared on that network.
		In conjunction with this, the league moved the beginning of the season from May to February (the week after the NFL's Super Bowl) and scheduled most of its games on Sunday instead of Friday or Saturday as it had in the past.
		Beginning with the 2003 season, the AFL made a deal with NBC to televise league games, which was renewed for another two years in 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arena_Football_League (687 words)

	eBay - National Football League
		Near the end of the season, the NFL likes to telecast two or three "marquis" games prior to the playoffs between the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference.
		The National Football League schedules its games according to a complex algorithm.
		Prior to the beginning of the season (around Labor Day), the NFL hosts two exhibition games, the American Bowl, and the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game.
	popular.ebay.com /ns/Sports-Collectibles/National+Football+League.html (334 words)

	National Football League Players' Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The National Football League Players' Association, or NFLPA, is the labor union of players in football's National Football League.
		National Football League, 352 U.S. (1957), that the NFL did not enjoy the same antitrust immunity that Major League Baseball did.
		The league did not formally recognize the NFLPA as the players' exclusive representative or enter into a contract with it, however, until 1968, after an abortive organizing drive led by Bernie Parrish of the Cleveland Browns backed by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and a short lockout and strike.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Football_League_Players'_Association (999 words)

	The Eclectric Omnibus - The Crystal Palace
		8th August 1862 : The National Temperance League annual fete was held.
		12th May 1905: The Colonial and Indian Exhibition was a display of products and manufactures of British possessions in almost every quarter of the globe - New Zealand, Barbadas, Jamacia, Trinidad, British Central Africa and many more.
		The rest of the space was left open to season ticket holders, the ladies sitting in the front.
	www.lexicon.net /fiawol/crystal.htm (999 words)

	The Eclectric Omnibus - The Crystal Palace
		8th August 1862 : The National Temperance League annual fete was held.
		2nd December 1901 - 1st February 1902: A children's exhibition with pictures, photos, school and toy books, music primers, dolls and other toys.
		24th May 1856 : The first flower show of the season.
	www.lexicon.net /fiawol/crystal.htm (999 words)

	The Eclectric Omnibus - The Crystal Palace
		8th August 1862 : The National Temperance League annual fete was held.
		1897: The Imperial Victorian Exhibition was held, forming a feature of the Golden Jubilee Celebrations.
		The rest of the space was left open to season ticket holders, the ladies sitting in the front.
	www.lexicon.net /fiawol/crystal.htm (999 words)

	Arena Football League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eventual Arena Football League (AFL) founder Jim Foster, a former National Football League and United States Football League executive, originally had a contract in hand in 1983 to play an exhibition game on the NBC television network, two decades before the first regular season games appeared on that network.
		The practice of playing one or two preseason exhibition games by each team prior to the start of the regular season was also discontinued at this time, and the regular season was extended from fourteen games, the length that it had been since 1996, to sixteen.
		In conjunction with this, the league moved the beginning of the season from May to February (the week after the NFL's Super Bowl) and scheduled most of its games on Sunday instead of Friday or Saturday as it had in the past.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arena_Football_League (678 words)

	Arena Football League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eventual Arena Football League (AFL) founder Jim Foster, a former National Football League and United States Football League executive, originally had a contract in hand in 1983 to play an exhibition game on the NBC television network, two decades before the first regular season games appeared on that network.
		The practice of playing one or two preseason exhibition games by each team prior to the start of the regular season was also discontinued at this time, and the regular season was extended from fourteen games, the length that it had been since 1996, to sixteen.
		In conjunction with this, the league moved the beginning of the season from May to February (the week after the NFL's Super Bowl) and scheduled most of its games on Sunday instead of Friday or Saturday as it had in the past.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arena_Football_League (523 words)

	Arena Football League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eventual Arena Football League (AFL) founder Jim Foster, a former National Football League and United States Football League executive, originally had a contract in hand in 1983 to play an exhibition game on the NBC television network, two decades before the first regular season games appeared on that network.
		In conjunction with this, the league moved the beginning of the season from May to February (the week after the NFL's Super Bowl) and scheduled most of its games on Sunday instead of Friday or Saturday as it had in the past.
		The Arena Football League (AFL) was founded in 1987 as an American football indoor league.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arena_Football_League (658 words)

	National League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The National League and American Association participated in an early version of the World Series seven times during their ten-year coexistence, though the series were only exhibition games arranged by the teams involved.
		Through the 2005 season, National League teams have won 41 and lost 60 of the 101 World Series played, although the National League have a rather better percentage of 28 and 34 in Series where the New York Yankees were not involved.
		National Football League, the major league of American football.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_League (1756 words)

	Western Australian Football Website : www.footballwa.net
		Football West have finalised the format of the amateur league for season 2006.
		In addition, he's rule the rule over numerous games at national league level and in November 2003 was in charge of Iraq's exhibition match against the State team.
		It is envisioned the Perth equivalent will cover all aspects of the world game, from the local level up through the national competition to the game abroad.
	members.iinet.net.au /~jacob@iinet.net.au/wasoccer (3356 words)

	USIA - Portrait of the USA, Ch. 11
		The teams were divided into two leagues, the National and American; during the regular season, a team played only against other teams within its league.
		The most victorious team in each league was said to have won the "pennant;" the two pennant winners met after the end of the regular season in the World Series.
		The studio system succumbed to two forces in the late 1940s: (1) a federal antitrust action that separated the production of films from their exhibition; and (2) the advent of television.
	usinfo.state.gov /usa/infousa/facts/factover/ch11.htm (3548 words)

	:: The Scene :: Issue 41 :: Sport Scene :: A Festival of Football in Hong Kong's Happy Valley ::
		With the national league starting Sunday week, it wont be long till the GAA 's 2005 season is upon us again.
		Since the tour's inception over 30 years ago, All-Stars have travelled to a wide variety of destinations to play their exhibition football and hurling games.
		:: The Scene :: Issue 41 :: Sport Scene :: A Festival of Football in Hong Kong's Happy Valley::
	www.scene.ie /issue41/all_stars_tour.shtml (715 words)

	Former Fire players Wolff, Beasley join Arena 'football'
		HERE AND THERE: Forward Earnie Stewart, who played 101 games for the U.S. national team, announced his retirement after concluding the season with VVV Venlo in the Dutch league.
		Bruce Arena, coach of the U.S. national team, continues to fine-tune his roster for Saturday's exhibition against England at Soldier Field, and his newest arrivals at training include two former Fire stars.
		Wolff, who has seven goals in 29 appearances for the national team, wasn't among the original invitees to this camp.
	www.suntimes.com /output/soccer/cst-spt-soccin25.html (811 words)

	All-Star Game Information - TextSheet.com
		The method of choosing teams varies, but the selection is usually based upon sub-divisions of the league or the nationalities of the players involved.
		An All-Star Game is an exhibition game played by the best players in their respective sports league.
		Major League Baseball All-Star Game ( National League vs. American League)
	forum.top5miami.com /encyclopedia/a/al/all_star_game.html (811 words)

	Pro Football Hall of Fame - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The American Professional Football Association, which was later renamed to the National Football League, was founded in Canton.
		The Pro Football Hall of Fame is technically the National Football League's Hall of Fame.
		Also, the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game an annual NFL pre-season exhibition game, is held a few days after the induction ceremonies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pro_Football_Hall_of_Fame (1051 words)

	Pro Football Hall of Fame - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pro Football Hall of Fame is technically the National Football League's Hall of Fame.
		Also, the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game an annual NFL pre-season exhibition game, is held a few days after the induction ceremonies.
		The American Professional Football Association, which was later renamed to the National Football League, was founded in Canton.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pro_Football_Hall_of_Fame (1214 words)

	National Football League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Exhibition game minimum is $10,000.00 These numbers are set by contract between the NFL and the players' union, the National Football League Players' Association.
		The next year 1969, another American Football League team, the Buffalo Bills were the first professional football team of the modern era to begin the season with a black, James Harris as their starting quarterback.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Football_League (4251 words)

	Florida - Sports
		Many Major League Baseball teams have their spring training camps in Florida and play exhibition games (in the "Grapefruit League") in the spring.
		Of the football teams, the Dolphins have been by far the most successful, winning the Super Bowl in 1973 (following the NFL's only undefeated season) and 1974, and appearing in three other Super Bowls (in 1972, 1983, and 1985).
		Three of the major collegiate football bowl games are played in the state: the Orange Bowl in Miami, the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, and the Florida Citrus Bowl in Orlando.
	www.city-data.com /states/Florida-Sports.html (395 words)

	Sports Venue Technology - Wimbledon FC Relocation to Milton Keynes
		Wimbledon FC needed to carry out work on their temporary home at the National Hockey Stadium, which is owned by the National Hockey Foundation, to bring it up to Football League standards for the 2003/2004 season.
		The League has imposed strict conditions in relation to the club playing at the National Hockey Stadium and a strict timetable for the construction of the new stadium by 2007.
		As well as the stadium, there will also be a 6,000-capacity multi-purpose sports arena, which will include conference and exhibition facilities, a 200-bed hotel with swimming and leisure facilities and car parking for 2,000 cars and 100 coaches on site.
	www.sportsvenue-technology.com /projects/wimbledon/index.html (1080 words)

	uefa.com
		The UEFA exhibition now on show at the National Football Museum takes football fans on a journey from the days when UEFA was born in Basel, Switzerland in June 1954, highlighting the competitions and great players of the past five decades in an enlightening tour which includes a wealth of fascinating mementoes and souvenirs.
		They have won little silverware since a purple patch in the 1880s, the period when they were regarded by many as the best club side in Europe, winning the first ever double in 1888/89 in English football's inaugural league season without losing a single game.
		The National Football Museum in Preston has provided UEFA with all manner of accompanying memorabilia, including old shirts, match programmes, a pair of 19th century shinpads, and football boots endorsed by Sir Tom Finney, the legendary Preston and England winger of the 1940s and 1950s.
	www.uefa.com /uefa/news/Kind=2/newsId=258827.html (548 words)

	Arena Football League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eventual Arena Football League (AFL) founder Jim Foster, a former National Football League and United States Football League executive, originally had a contract in hand in 1983 to play an exhibition game on the NBC television network, two decades before the first regular season games appeared on that network.
		The Arena Football League (AFL) was founded in 1987 as an American football indoor league.
		The AFL was founded in 1987 as an American football indoor league.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arena_Football_League (659 words)

	Western Australian Football Website : www.footballwa.net
		In addition, he's rule the rule over numerous games at national league level and in November 2003 was in charge of Iraq's exhibition match against the State team.
		Football West have finalised the format of the amateur league for season 2006.
		Similarly, the bottom two teams from each division will be relegated to the next lowest division.
	members.iinet.net.au /~jacob@iinet.net.au/wasoccer (3356 words)

	The Year in American Soccer - 1929
		Some ASL teams played a series of "round robin" exhibition games with EPSL teams for a couple weeks, until the league merged with the EPSL to begin a new Spring 1930 season (as the Atlantic Coast League) on November 9, 1929.
		Although the league dispensed with a championship series, the American Cup was revived one last time, with the Providence Gold Bugs defeating the New York National 2-2 and 4-2.
		The Soccer War was a momentous event in the annals of US Soccer History, one which not only served as a decisive battle for power between the United States Football Association and the American Soccer League, but also led to the end of the first golden era of American Soccer.
	www.sover.net /~spectrum/year/1929.html (3356 words)

	JS Online: NFL fines Broncos' Brown
		According to a league spokesman, the fine specifically was for hitting a defenseless receiver with the helmet on a pass play, a new point of emphasis for the National Football League this season.
		The National Football League fined Brown 1/17th of his base salary of $418,000, or $24,588.24, for his hit on Freeman in the second quarter of Green Bay's 22-7 exhibition victory Monday night.
		Brown lost a paycheck, the Packers lost Freeman, who suffered a concussion, for their next exhibition game, and the Packers' young receivers gained a chance to move up on the depth chart.
	www.jsonline.com /packer/news/aug01/packsid23082201.asp (849 words)

	American Bowl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The American Bowl is the name of a series of National Football League pre-season exhibition games that are held at international sites outside the United States.
		The league started the American Bowls in 1986 primarily to promote American football in other countries.
		Since 1990, games were also played in Montreal and Berlin to promote the new World League of American Football (later NFL Europe) which started in 1991.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Bowl (211 words)

	America West Arena
		The arena has hosted the 1995 NBA All-Star game, many concerts, arena football, indoor soccer and NHL exhibition games.
		The arena, which got hockey when the National Hockey League's Winnipeg Jets moved south for the 1996 season, also this season became the sixth in the league to go to a seamless glass system.
		October 14, 1996- America West Arena wins the dubious distinction of having the most ear-splitting public-address system in the league, cranking out music that will surely turn the Coyotes beat writers' ear drums to corn-meal by midseason.
	www.sfo.com /~csuppes/NHL/PhoenixCoyotes (1255 words)

	National Football League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		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.
		The league played a regular-season NFL game in Mexico City in 2005 and intends to play more such games in other countries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NFL (4231 words)

	89th US Congress
		The revelation of Rozelle's remarks before Congress were made by Angelo Coniglio, a 34-year-old hydraulic engineer who lives in Amherst, N. Y., and the same freedom-fighter who also is bringing a lawsuit against those National Football League clubs that make the buying of exhibition games a mandatory obligation for regular season ticket holders.
		There was so much of a financial desire on the, part of football's owners to merge the leagues and save money in the bidding for players that all kinds of sweet, romantic words were cunningly cooed to the press and public.
		The first point Rozelle made, quoting from the official text of the pro football merger, as put before the Anti-Trust Subcommittee of the 89th Congress, second session, dealt specifically with where the teams would play.
	www.conigliofamily.com /89thCongress.htm (1412 words)

	America West Arena
		The arena has hosted the 1995 NBA All-Star game, many concerts, arena football, indoor soccer and NHL exhibition games.
		The arena, which got hockey when the National Hockey League's Winnipeg Jets moved south for the 1996 season, also this season became the sixth in the league to go to a seamless glass system.
		The Coyotes entered the league as the Winnipeg Jets in 1979, and the team has yet to capture again the glory days of the early 70s, when the Jets were World Hockey League champs with Bobby Hull on their front line.
	www.sfo.com /~csuppes/NHL/PhoenixCoyotes (1255 words)

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