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In October 2006, NFL club owners approved a plan to stage up to two international regular season games per season beginning in 2007 and continuing through at least 2011. [33] The New York Giants and the Miami Dolphins played at Wembley Stadium in London on October 28, 2007, for the first of these games.
Early championships between 1920 and 1932 were awarded to the team with the best won-lost record, initially rather haphazardly, as some teams played more or fewer games than others, or scheduled games against non-league, amateur or collegiate teams; this led to the 1920 title being determined during a league meeting after the season, [3] the 1921 title being decided on a controversial ...
NFL regular season games accounted for 31 out of the top 32 most-watched programs in the fall season and an NFL game ranked as the most-watched television show in all 17 weeks of the regular season. At the local level, NFL games were the highest-ranked shows in NFL markets 92% of the time. [129]
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In 2017, the NFL shortened overtime from 15 minutes to 10 minutes for regular season games with the intent of reducing the risk of injury. [ 52 ] [ 53 ] Through Week 13 of the 2024 season, a total of 109 regular season games went to overtime under these rules, 7 (6.4%) of which ended in a tie.
With the addition of a 17th game, the NFL's single-season records will be under assault. ... No fan wants to see that Mahomes is 3.7 yards per game behind Manning in Week 16, and then have to ...
The 1987 NFL strike, which lasted for 24 days, forced the 1987 season to be shortened to 15 games per team. The founding of the United States Football League in the early 1980s would prove to be the longest sustained challenge to the NFL's dominance since the 1970 merger, lasting three seasons.
The NFL has staged 42 games in Europe since 2007. ... The 2017 Cleveland Browns made a London appearance on their way to becoming the second 0-16 team in NFL history, as did the legendarily bad ...