What year did the NFL start using the 16 game schedule?
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1978\n\nNumber of regular season games \n1935-1936 12 games \n1937-1942 11 games \n1943-1945 10 games \n1946 11 games \n1947-1960 12 games \n1961-1977 14 games \n1978-1981 16 games \n1982 9 games (strike) \n1983-86 16 games \n1987 15 games (strike) \n1988-present 16 games
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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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Super Bowl I debuted in 1967.
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08/04/1979 (Sat.) Washington Redskins @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers L, 9-7  \n08/11/1979 (Sat.) Miami Dolphins @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers L, 13-7 \n08/18/1979 (Sat.) New Orleans Saints @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers W, 14-7 \n08/25/1979 (Sat.) Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ Cincinnati Bengals W, 24-13 \n\nDont know about OT.
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It's all rotation. The AFC East played the North in '04, and they just played the West, so next year they get the South. As for inter-conference matchups, it's the same thing. I'm not sure how they determine the other two conference games though.
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Well Joe Montana was the QB for San Francisco.\n\nA 24-day players' strike reduced the 16-game season to 15. The games that were scheduled for the third week of the season were cancelled, but the games for weeks 4-6 were played with replacement players.\n\nDenver - Karcher\nSeattle - Mathison\nKansas City - Stevens\nLos Angeles - Evans\nSan Diego - Slick Rick Neuheisal
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Objective: American football is played by two teams who will have eleven players on the field at any one time. The object of the game is to get the ball to the opponents end of the field, and score more points than the opposing team.\n\nTo start a game, the referee will toss a coin. The visiting captain calls. The winner of the toss can decide whether to start in offense (receive the kick) or defense (deliver the kick). When play restarts in the second half, the captain who lost the toss at the beginning of the game chooses.\n\nIf a game goes into overtime, the first team to score wins, so the captain will almost always choose to go on the offense. Teams change ends at the start of the quarter.\n\nPlaying time lasts for one hour, divided into four fifteen minute quarters. There is a fifteen minute break between the second and third quarters (each half of the game).\n\nThe clock is stopped when the ball is not in play, when a foul has been committed, or when a fair catch has been caught. The clock is also stopped for time outs. Both teams are allowed three time outs, lasting a maximum of two minutes each, in each half.\n\nBoth the clock and the game itself are stopped two minutes from the end of each half by the referee to allow the teams to plan their strategies.\n\nIf the scores are level at the end of the fourth quarter, overtime will be played. In NFL games, only one period of overtime is played, and if the scores are still level, the game is declared a draw. For championship and playoff games, periods are played until a winner is decided (the first team to score).\n\n\n\n\nMORE COMPLEX RULES\n\n\n\nKick off \nTop of page\n\nPlay starts with a kick off at the start of the second half, but when the teams turn around and change ends at the start of the first and third quarters, play is started from the same position on the field as where it finished, but in the opposite half of the field. The same team will keep possession.\n\nThe kick-off is used to restart play after all point-afters and field goals. The kick-offs are always taken from the 35-yard line, unless a penalty has been given. The team making the point after always restarts the game with a kick-off. If the kick is unsuccessful, the defense starts play from their own 25-yard line and so they become the offense.\n\n\n\nScoring \nTop of page\n\nAs with many sports, the object is to score more points than the opponents. There are several different ways of scoring in American football.\n\nThe largest single score comes from a touchdown. This is worth six points. It is scored when an offensive player runs into the opposing end zone while in possession of the ball. A receiver can also make a catch delivered into the same area. The ball does not have to be actually 'touched down' on the ground for the points to be scored.\n\nA successful touchdown is followed by a kick through the goalposts, known as the conversion, or 'point-after'. This is worth one point. For this, the ball is placed on the 2-yard line and snapped (passed backwards through the legs) to the kicker, who tries to kick it over the crossbar and between the upright posts.\n\nA player can touch the ball onto the ground in the end zone without their whole body being in the end zone, and the touchdown still counts. However, the scoring player must not be pushed or helped in any way by other players.\n\nThe next type of scoring is called the field goal. A field goal counts as three points. It is taken from 10 yards behind the line of scrimmage (the line where the last play ended, so the next play is made from there), to give the kicker more time, and some protection from the defense. Again, the ball must be kicked through the posts. The kicker is credited for the kick from whatever distance it was taken from.\n\nThe fourth and final way of scoring is called the safety. Two points are awarded to the offensive team when the defensive team are caught in possession of the ball in their own end zone.\n
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Every team gets a bye week scheduled in by the NFL's schedulers, usually its anytime from week 4 to week 14.
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Based on avg. roster of about 44 players on roster a year over those 10 years 1983-19993 probabably between 350 to 400 (throwing injuries trades etc... into the mix). I have no idea what NFL roster limits were in the 50's or 60's they might not have been limits, I'd guess 25 to 35 between 1950-1960. The league was primarily made up of white americans at this time.
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XXXIX Feb. 6, 2005 New England 24, Philadelphia 21 \nXXXVIII Feb. 1, 2004 New England 32, Carolina 29 \nXXXVII Jan. 26, 2003 Tampa Bay 48, Oakland 21 \nXXXVI Feb. 3, 2002 New England 20, St. Louis 17 \nXXXV Jan. 28, 2001 Baltimore 34, N.Y. Giants 7 \nXXXIV Jan. 30, 2000 St. Louis 23, Tennessee 16 \nXXXIII Jan. 31, 1999 Denver 34, Atlanta 19
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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.
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www.nfl.com\n\nAll the info you need is there.
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The NFL has bigger footballs.
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XXXIX  Feb. 6, 2005  New England 24, Philadelphia 21\nXXXVIII  Feb. 1, 2004  New England 32, Carolina 29\nXXXVII  Jan. 26, 2003  Tampa Bay 48, Oakland 21\nXXXVI  Feb. 3, 2002  New England 20, St. Louis 17\nXXXV  Jan. 28, 2001  Baltimore 34, N.Y. Giants 7\nXXXIV  Jan. 30, 2000  St. Louis 23, Tennessee 16\nXXXIII  Jan. 31, 1999  Denver 34, Atlanta 19\nXXXII  Jan. 25, 1998  Denver 31, Green Bay 24\nXXXI  Jan. 26, 1997  Green Bay 35, New England 21\nXXX  Jan. 28, 1996  Dallas 27, Pittsburgh 17\nXXIX  Jan. 29, 1995  San Francisco 49, San Diego 26\nXXVIII  Jan. 30, 1994  Dallas 30, Buffalo 13\nXXVII  Jan. 31, 1993  Dallas 52, Buffalo 17\nXXVI  Jan. 26, 1992  Washington 37, Buffalo 24\nXXV  Jan. 27, 1991  N.Y. Giants 20, Buffalo 19\nXXIV  Jan. 28, 1990  San Francisco 55, Denver 10\nXXIII  Jan. 22, 1989  San Francisco 20, Cincinnati 16\nXXII  Jan. 31, 1988  Washington 42, Denver 10\nXXI  Jan. 25, 1987  N.Y. Giants 39, Denver 20\nXX  Jan. 26, 1986  Chicago 46, New England 10\nXIX  Jan. 20, 1985  San Francisco 38, Miami 16\nXVIII  Jan. 22, 1984  L.A. Raiders 38, Washington 9\nXVII  Jan. 30, 1983  Washington 27, Miami 17\nXVI  Jan. 24, 1982  San Francisco 26, Cincinnati 21\nXV  Jan. 25, 1981  Oakland 27, Philadelphia 10\nXIV  Jan. 20, 1980  Pittsburgh 31, L.A. Rams 19\nXIII  Jan. 21, 1979  Pittsburgh 35, Dallas 31\nXII  Jan. 15, 1978  Dallas 27, Denver 10\nXI  Jan.   9, 1977  Oakland 32, Minnesota 14\nX  Jan. 18, 1976  Pittsburgh 21, Dallas 17\nIX  Jan. 12, 1975  Pittsburgh 16, Minnesota 6\nVIII  Jan. 13, 1974  Miami 24, Minnesota 7\nVII  Jan. 14, 1973  Miami 14, Washington 7\nVI  Jan. 16, 1972  Dallas 24, Miami 3\nV  Jan. 17, 1971  Baltimore 16, Dallas 13\nIV  Jan. 11, 1970  Kansas City 23, Minnesota 7\nIII  Jan. 12, 1969  N.Y. Jets 16, Baltimore 7\nII  Jan. 14, 1968  Green Bay 33, Oakland 14\nI  Jan. 15, 1967  Green Bay 35, Kansas City 10
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Money Money Money is your answer\n\nThe first time the Super Bowl was played in February was 2002, following the 2001 season.  There was a week that was cancelled after 9/11, which pushed the Regular season back a week, therefore pushing the playoffs back as well.  \n\nMore recently, the NFL has shyed away from having their opening weekend be the same weekend as Labor Day.  That way, the NCAA can have their own big opening weekend bash, then the NFL can follow suit a week later.  Both of which allow for more money to be made by each organization.  That pushes the start of the NFL season more towards mid September, throw in the 17 week schedule, and your regular season takes you right up to, if not into the new year.  They tinkered with cutting out the week between the conference championships and the Super Bowl, but again, that didnt leave them enough time to get things together for the teams or fans, not to mention that it allows the NFL to make more money off the event.  \n\nHope this helps!
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radio has been around since the late 1800's and american football began in the early 1900's
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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.