The Bears were penalized five yards for delay of game, but according to NFL rules, ten seconds should have also been run off the clock during such a deliberate clock-stopping attempt in the final two minutes of a half.

The following week, kneeling with the ball when possible to run out the clock and preserve a victory became standard operating procedure in the NFL.

The clock stops for out-of-bounds plays, incomplete passes, or sacks only in the last minute of each half ( there is only a one-minute warning, as opposed to the two-minute warning in the NFL and the three-minute warning in the CFL ) or because of penalties, injuries or timeouts.

Receivers are able to position themselves near the sideline to run out of bounds, stopping the clock at the end of the play ( the last two minutes of each half in the NFL, and the last three minutes of each half in the CFL ).

In the 1960 NFL Championship Game, Bednarik, the last Eagle between Green Bay's Jim Taylor and the end zone, tackled Taylor on the final play of the game at the Eagles ' eight yard line, and remained atop Taylor as the final seconds ticked off the clock, ensuring the Packers could not run another play and preserving a 17-13 Eagles victory.

In the NFL, this only stops the clock in the final two minutes of the first half and final five minutes of the second half ; the rest of the time, the clock stops only temporarily, restarting when the ball is set for the next play.

The NFL and NCAA use a 40-second play clock that starts immediately after the previous play ends, though for certain delays, such as penalty enforcement, the offense has 25 seconds from when the ball is marked ready.

In the NFL, college and other levels of football where the official time is kept on the stadium scoreboard clock, the line judge becomes the backup timekeeper.

In the NFL, the back judge is responsible for ruling a " delay of game " infraction if the play clock expires.

" In one stark difference from NBC, CBS used a constant score and clock for its NFL games, a la the FoxBox.

The program sometimes does not start until after 7 pm, due largely to CBS's live broadcast of NFL games.

Because this presents a significant advantage to the team winning the coin toss to decide who receives the first overtime possession, the NFL moved in 2011 to require that if both teams have not had possession of the ball prior to the first score, then the team who does have possession must score a touchdown to end the game, preventing the team winning the coin toss from making a much shorter drive down the field and kicking a " golden goal " without the other team having a chance to touch the ball.

Since the NFL does not allow its owners to hold majority control of major-league teams in other NFL cities, Kroenke turned over day-to-day control of the Nuggets and Avalanche to his son Josh toward the end of 2010, and must sell his controlling interest in both teams by 2014.

While they technically can refer to any team that does not finish first in its grouping, the term is most often used when the teams that qualify without finishing first in their group is quite low, such as in the NFL and MLB where only four teams out of 32 in the former and 30 in the latter qualify in this manner.

After his NFL career, The Fridge also does paid corporate appearances and autograph signings.

The NFL does not allow in-progress highlights at all outside of its own live game broadcasts.

* NFL on Westwood One ( in season, overflow from WGR when WGR does Bills games )

Humility: An NFL member does not regard him or herself more highly than others.

( Despite the heavy use of sex appeal, the league does play legitimate football, and most of the league's players have previous athletic experience ; former NFL players have coached LFL teams.

The NFL does not consider the Colts ( now based in Indianapolis ) to be a continuation of the Yanks / Bulldogs / Yanks / Texans franchise, or even the Dayton Triangles for that matter considering that franchise's successor, the Brooklyn Dodgers / Tigers, merged with the Yanks in 1945.

However, the NFL does not consider the Redskins to be a continuation of the Tornadoes, just as it does not consider the Tornadoes to be a continuation of the Duluth Eskimoes.

However, throughout all of these mergers and relocations, the NFL currently does not consider the Colts ( now based in Indianapolis ) to be a continuation of the franchise once known as the Dayton Triangles.

During the 2004 season, Brady helped the Patriots set an NFL record with 21 straight wins dating from the previous year, an accomplishment honored in the Pro Football Hall of Fame ( though for official records, the NFL considers it an 18-game regular season winning streak ; it does not count playoff games ).

However, the NFL currently does not consider the Colts to be a continuation of the franchise once known as the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Vanderjagt's streak of 42 consecutive successful field goal attempts, the longest in NFL history ( the league does not include postseason or Pro Bowl games when compiling streaks ), ended on September 9, 2004 when he missed a 48-yard attempt against the New England Patriots.

The NFL now classifies these contests as exhibition games and does not include the records, participants, or results in the official league playoff statistics.

However, the NFL currently does not consider the Colts ( now based in Indianapolis ) to be a continuation of the franchise once known as the New York Yanks.

As of 2011, Major League Baseball is the only major professional sports league in the U. S. A that does not have a salary cap ; the MLS, NHL, NBA and NFL all implement some sort of salary cap.

As such, he does not appear on any NFL team's historical roster.

Although his name does not come up much in conversations about the best defensive tackles, his play was recognized by being named to the NFL 2000s All-Decade Team after he retired.

Although the ten Playoff Bowls were official third place playoff games at the time they were played, the NFL currently classifies them as exhibition games, and does not include them in the official results ( or statistics ) for the post-season.

It was the last to explicitly be endorsed by the NFL on Fox, although the NFL on Fox's iconic theme would continue to be used for several years afterward.

St. Louis would later become a stop for other NFL teams: the St. Louis Gunners very briefly joined the NFL at the end of the 1934 season, the St. Louis Cardinals relocated from Chicago to play in the city from 1960 to 1987 ( when the team moved to Arizona ), and the St. Louis Rams came to the city ( formerly from Los Angeles ) in 1995.

He had publicly criticized the Baltimore Colts ' move to Indianapolis, and had testified in favor of the NFL in court cases where the league unsuccessfully tried to stop Al Davis from moving the Oakland Raiders from Oakland to Los Angeles.

After the game other NFL defenses including the Steelers started doing the same thing to stop Isaac Curtis.

The two teams had last met in the final game of the previous season, when Tampa Bay had somewhat controversially appeared to stop playing defense and allowing the Jets to score late in a 41-21 victory in an apparent effort to get the ball back so that running back James Wilder could attempt to break the NFL record for most yards from scrimmage in a season.

The roundhouse located on the BNSF line, with the last stop in Aurora, Illinois, was purchased by NFL football player Walter Payton and has become Walter Payton's Roundhouse Brewery and Restaurant.

However, he had to stop when the NFL declared it " unsportsmanlike taunting " in March 1984 and began fining players for it.

After the second conviction was upheld in court, the NFL asked teams to stop playing the song.

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.

One independent group which had been active in NFL exhibition promotions in Atlanta applied for franchises in both the American Football League and the NFL, acting entirely on its own with no guarantee of stadium rights.

The Atlanta Falcons franchise began on June 30, 1965 when NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle granted ownership to 41 year-old Rankin Smith Sr .. Smith an Executive Vice President of Life Insurance Company of Georgia at the time, paid $ 8. 5 million the highest price in NFL history at the time 1965 for an NFL franchise.

Miss Julia Elliott, a school teacher from Griffin, Georgia was singled out from many people who suggested " Falcons " as the Nickname for the new Georgia NFL franchise.

Sanders was also famous for playing on major league baseball teams ( the New York Yankees and the Atlanta Braves ) while simultaneously playing in the NFL.

In the 2001 NFL Draft, the Falcons orchestrated a trade with the San Diego Chargers, acquiring the first overall pick ( which was used on quarterback Michael Vick ) in exchange for wide receiver / return specialist Tim Dwight and the fifth overall pick ( used on running back LaDainian Tomlinson ).

In 2002, Vick set many records and supplied the media with numerous highlights for the season, including rushing for 173 yards in an overtime win at Minnesota, the highest single-game rushing total for an NFL quarterback ever ( Vick's footwear from this game are currently enshrined in the NFL Hall of Fame ).

The site has a 90, 000-square foot heated indoor practice facility, Three outdoor NFL natural turf football fields that feature an immediate gravity drainage system, and a complete kitchen and dining facilities for team meals.

During the summer of 1959 he sought the blessings of the NFL for his nascent league, as he did not seek a potentially costly rivalry.

Walsh was viewed as a strong advocate for African-American head coaches in the NFL and NCAA.

Six former Oriole franchise radio announcers have received the Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting: Chuck Thompson ( who was also the voice of the old NFL Baltimore Colts ); Jon Miller ( now with the San Francisco Giants ); Ernie Harwell, Herb Carneal ; Bob Murphy and Harry Caray ( as a St. Louis Browns announcer in the 1940s.

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

These factors – combined with a war for players between the two leagues that raised salaries and ate into owners ' profits – ultimately led to the dissolution of the AAFC and the merger of three of its teams, including the Browns, into the NFL in 1949.

On October 26, 1993, the league announced that the owners had unanimously voted for the Carolinas to receive the 29th franchise, the first new NFL team since 1976 ( Jacksonville was named the 30th team a month later ).

Carolina also traded a third round draft pick in the 2012 NFL draft to the Chicago Bears for TE Greg Olsen.

In their first match up of the 2011 season, Cam Newton set an NFL record for most rushing touchdowns in a season for QB with 13.