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The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing its name to the National Football League in 1922...

Timeline of Events

1920

8.20.1920

The National Football League, (NFL), is founded in the United States.

9.17.1920

The National Football League is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States.

1922

6.24.1922

The American Professional Football Association formally changes its name to the National Football League.

1966

11.8.1966

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.

1973

10.21.1973

Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.

1982

9.20.1982

The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.

1994

11.30.1994

The National Football League announces that the Jacksonville Jaguars will become the league's 30th franchise.