Skorich was considered the logical choice after the club gave Norm Van Brocklin permission to seek the head coaching job with the Minnesota Vikings, the newest National Football League entry.

He was the lawyer for Ted Collins' old Boston Yankees in the National Football League.

Expansion and modernization of Raymond Field was completed in the fall of 2007 and features the installation of an eight-lane all-weather running track and a move to the same premium artificial turf used by the New England Patriots of the National Football League for its main playing field.

FC Zaanstreek was formed in 1964, continuing the professional adventure of the Kooger Football Club ( KFC ).

The American Football League ( AFL ) was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League ( NFL ) merged with it.

A. S. Roma was founded in the summer of 1927 when a secretary of the National Fascist Party, Italo Foschi, initiated the merger of three older Italian Football Championship clubs from the city of Rome ; Roman FC, SS Alba-Audace and Fortitudo-Pro Roma SGS.

The only major Roman club to resist the merger was S. S. Lazio because of the intervention of the army General Vaccaro, member of the club and executive of Italian Football Federation.

According to The Football Money League published by consultants Deloitte, in the season 2010 – 11, Roma was the 15th highest earning football club in the world with an estimated revenue of € 143. 5 million.

In 1896, delegates from the stronger and wealthier VFA clubs — Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne — met to form a breakaway competition and in 1897, the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), was born as an eight-team competition.

The Australian National Football Council's primary role was to govern the game at national level to facilitate interstate representative and club competition.

In 1908, a Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival was held to celebrate 50 years of Australian Football.

In 1978, the term Barassi Line was used to describe the dichotomy that existed in Australia's football culture, where Australian Football was most popular in all states bar New South Wales and Queensland.

For the centenary of the VFL / AFL in 1996, the Australian Football Hall of Fame was established.

In 1993, he was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

His master's thesis was entitled Flank Formation Football -- Stress :: Defense.

His success with the 49ers was rewarded with his election to the Professional Football Hall of Fame in 1993.

On Monday Night Football that week, the 49ers ' win was not included in the famous halftime highlights.

A reserves team has played in the Northern Conference of the North East Australian Football League since the competition was established in 2011.

The team was founded in the 1940s as a charter franchise in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ), with Paul Brown, the team's namesake and a pioneering figure in professional football, as its first coach.

The AAFC was to compete with the dominant National Football League once it began operations at the end of World War II, which had forced many professional teams to curtail activity, merge or go on hiatus as their players served in the U. S. military.

Former Browns RB Jim Brown, who was a prominent member of the 1964 NFL Championship team, the team's all-time leader in rushing yards, and a Pro Football Hall of Fame member.

In 1951, Labatt launched its Pilsener Lager ; when it was introduced in Manitoba, the beer was nicknamed " Blue " for the colour of its label and the company's support of Winnipeg's Canadian Football League ( CFL ) franchise, the Blue Bombers.

The National Football League introduced sudden death during the regular season in the NFL in 1974 and had always had it in its playoffs.

Besides play-offs, the Royal Belgian Football Association ( KBVB ) also introduced Christmas football in order to complete the extra matches in time.

The Football Conference introduced play-offs in 2002 after the Football League agreed to a two-club exchange with the Conference.

The South Australian National Football League, introduced finals in 1898, and other leagues soon followed.

Football was introduced to Bilbao by two distinct groups of players, both with British connections ; British steel and shipyard workers and Basque students returning from schools in Britain.

Football was introduced to San Sebastián in the early 1900s by students and workers returning from Britain.

Football was introduced to Santos in 1902 via the Instituto Presbiteriano Mackenzie, and the students created the two aforementioned clubs as a result.

Stoke were one of the twelve founding members of The Football League when it was introduced in 1888.

On 18 January 2010, the BBC introduced a local Football League highlight show called Late Kick Off.

* Football Oreo football-shape Oreos, introduced in 1976

In 1956, the Canadian Football Council was formed Sunday, January 22, at Winnipeg and national negotiation lists were introduced.

On 8 December 2010, in response to a call from the Football Supporter's Federation, he introduced a bill to parliament to introduce safe standing areas into English and Welsh football, the first of its kind since the Taylor Report.

In 1974, Cairns was introduced by Robert Menzies to George Harris, a Melbourne businessman and president of the Carlton Football Club.

* Chicago Bliss, one of two teams that were introduced to the Lingerie Football League in 2004 ( the other being Dallas Desire )

Cairns was introduced by Robert Menzies to George Harris, a Melbourne businessman and president of the Carlton Football Club.

Wigan finished the season just one point outside the promotion places in the final season before the Football League introduced the play-off system for promotion and relegation.

During the mid sixties the Football League introduced a minimum admission price for all clubs in all four divisions, attempting to help boost revenue for lower clubs.

After these two seasons the team hit form in the 1973 – 74 season, when " three up, three down " promotion and relegation was introduced to the Football League.

After Batchelor's period at the club, the name returned to " Football Club " and a new logo was introduced, which was selected following a supporters ' vote held by the club, with the successful design being made by Michael Elgie.

In 1976 – 77 the Rugby Football Union introduced proper club merit tables and in that season London Irish finished first in the London Division with six wins out of seven.

In 1974, with many of the top amateur players receiving payment for playing, The Football Association abolished the distinction, scrapped the Amateur Cup and introduced the FA Vase for the majority of clubs who had previously played in the competition.

The series lampooned current sports culture and introduced an entire sub-culture of dance leagues, a governing body for the sport ( characterised as officious, clumsy, bureaucratic, out-of-touch and based on the real-life Football Association ), an idiosyncratic cast of sociopaths and a yearning for earlier, gentler days of greater respect ( such as the famous Policeman on a White Bicycle ).