) By the late 1940s, head coach Earle " Greasy " Neale and running back Steve Van Buren led the team to three consecutive NFL Championship Games, winning two of them in 1948 and 1949.

Also in 2003, Tomlinson accumalated 195 total yards from scrimmage in a late season game against the Packers to raise his season total to 2, 011 and became the first player in team history and the eighth player in NFL history to record consecutive 2, 000-yard seasons.

Black shoes were worn for the first several seasons, one of the few NFL teams that did in the late 1970s.

That Super Bowl proved to be the final NFL game in the stadium, which was demolished in late 1979.

Until the late 1970s, stripes were permissible for NFL footballs for night games and other special situations.

The Oilers kicked a field goal late in the game to send it into overtime, but Odomes ' interception in the extra period set up kicker Steve Christie's game winning field goal to give the Bills the biggest comeback win in NFL history.

Williams who is a former NFL cornerback, and the late Curtis Williams who was paralyzed while playing college football at the University of Washington.

NFL was used in the late 1960s and early 1970s for testing rocket engines used in the Space Program.

* Steve Belichick, late father of NFL coach Bill Belichick

It was the hometown of the late George Blanda-former NFL quarterback and placekicker.

Prominent NFL alumni include Senators Russ Feingold, Richard Lugar and William Frist, media visionary Ted Turner, Academy Award winners Patricia Neal and Don Ameche, Emmy award winners Kelsey Grammer and Shelley Long, television host Oprah Winfrey, news anchors Jane Pauley and the late David Bloom, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Federal National Mortgage CEO Franklin Delano Raines, actors Brad Pitt and Zac Efron, and musician David Cook.

Poor ratings caused this experiment to be dropped after one season, with MNF once again moving to 9 p. m. in, though in many NFL markets, the 8pm ET hour from 1999 until 2006 was replaced by affiliates with locally-produced sports discussion and coaches shows programmed locally, with ABC programming in that hour moved to late night or weekend slots ; by the end of the ABC run, the 8pm timeslot was filled with either newsmagazines and short-lived reality television programs which failed to make any ratings headways due to affiliate pre-emptions.

) Although the game was released in late 1991, all team rosters and player attributes were based on the prior 1990-91 NFL season, which means no rookies drafted in 1991, prior to the beginning of the 1991-1992 season, were added to the game.

The Kelleys, residing in the northernmost city in the NFL at the time, had the disadvantage of not being able to play at home during late November and early December, due to the harsh winters in northern Minnesota.

By the late twenties, Dayton was one of the league's doormats, winning just five of their 51 NFL contests from 1923-29.

* Kaye Young, now Kaye Young Cowher, the late wife of current NFL on CBS analyst and former Pittsburgh Steelers coach, Bill Cowher

In late 1959, when it became apparent that the NFL was intent on expanding to Dallas, Schramm told his friends in football that he was interested in running the team.

For the 2005 season, Rogers Sportsnet also began airing National Football League ( NFL ) games, splitting late games across the Pacific and West feeds, and the East and Ontario feeds.

Erving and former NFL running back Joe Washington fielded a NASCAR Busch Grand National Series team in the late 1990s, becoming the first ever NASCAR racing team at any level owned completely by minorities.

The trophy was named in honor of the late National Football League ( NFL ) legend Walter Payton, who starred at Jackson State University.

Based on an MRI, doctors told him in the late summer that he needed spinal fusion surgery and that at his age they could not guarantee his return to the NFL.

Beginning in the 2007 NFL season as part of Rogers Media's broadcast rights with the NFL ; two late regular season games are shown by CITY and Vancouver sister station CKVU-TV weekly, the opposite games air regionally on their respective Rogers Sportsnet feed.

Before the 1988 NFL season, the team moved to Tempe, Arizona, a college town suburb of Phoenix, and played their home games for the next 18 years at Arizona State University's Sun Devil Stadium.

They have been to the playoffs six times and have won six playoff games, three of which were victories during their run in the 2008-09 NFL Playoffs.

On December 11, 13 games into his first NFL season as head coach, Bobby Petrino resigned without notice to coach at the University of Arkansas, leaving the beleaguered players only a note in the locker room.

Before becoming the studio host for The NFL on NBC in 1984, Costas did play-by-play of NFL games with analyst Bob Trumpy.

In 2001, the Panthers won their season opener 24 – 13 over the Vikings, but set a ( then ) NFL record by losing 15 consecutive games to finish the season 1 – 15.

Their current preseason TV announcers on WFLD ( Channel 32 ), which also carries the majority of the team's regular season games through the NFL on Fox, are Sam Rosen ( play-by-play ), Erik Kramer ( color commentary ) and Lou Canellis ( sideline reporter ).

Most of the high-profile games ( the various games for AFC titles and regular season games ) between the two led to these changes in NFL rules.

Although rules for the high school, college, and NFL games are generally consistent, there are several minor differences.

( In the NFL overtime is decided by a 15-minute sudden-death quarter, and regular season games can still end in a tie if neither team scores.

Overtime for regular season games in the NFL began with the 1974 season.

They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference ( NFC ) in the National Football League ( NFL ), and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.

The 2008 team became the only team in NFL history to lose all 16 regular season games since the NFL went to a 16-game schedule in 1978.

The Lions also wore ' 50s-style jerseys during their traditional Thanksgiving Day games from 2001 to 2004 as the NFL encouraged teams to wear throwback jerseys on Thanksgiving Day.

In American football, the Scottish Claymores played WLAF / NFL Europe games at Murrayfield, including their World Bowl 96 victory.

They played home games from their inaugural season to the 2011 season at Sun Life Stadium, which they shared with the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League ( NFL ) and which was also called Joe Robbie Stadium, Pro Player Park, Pro Player Stadium, Dolphin Stadium, Dolphins Stadium, and Land Shark Stadium during their tenancy.

While in Baltimore the team advanced to the postseason ten times and won three NFL Championship games in 1958, 1959 and 1968.

Three years later Unitas would end his NFL career by starting four games for the 1973 Chargers ; his last win was a 34-7 win over the Bills.

2009 marked a low point, with the team's attendance averaging around 50, 000, causing seven of the eight home games to be blacked out, and leading NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to address the issue with owner Wayne Weaver.

While attendance figures were stagnant for most of the NFL, Jacksonville saw an increase of 36. 5 %, by far the highest in the league, and had none of their home games blacked out.

In 1972, the Dolphins completed the NFL's only perfect season culminating in a Super Bowl win, winning all 14 of its regular-season games, both of its NFL playoff games, and also Super Bowl VII.