The franchise has two NFL championships, both while it was based in Chicago.

The team has also won four division titles (,,, and ) since their 1947 – 1948 NFL championship game appearances.

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.

The NFL has a similar rule in the final minute of the half, but it applies only to specified violations against the offensive team.

The Redskins and Dallas Cowboys enjoy what has been called by Sports Illustrated the top NFL rivalry of all time and " one of the greatest in sports.

Perhaps the most famous nominal damages award in modern times has been the $ 1 verdict against the National Football League ( NFL ) in the 1986 antitrust suit prosecuted by the United States Football League.

The following year, they moved to the new Louisiana Superdome ( now the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, since Mercedes-Benz has purchased the stadium's naming rights through the 2021 NFL season ).

That first season started with a 94 yard opening kickoff return for a touchdown by John Gilliam ( No other team in NFL history has ever returned a kickoff for a touchdown on its first attempt as a new franchise ), but the Saints lost that game 27 – 13 to the Los Angeles Rams at Tulane Stadium.

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The team's heated rivalry with the Philadelphia Eagles is the oldest of the NFC East rivalries, dating all the way back to 1933 and has been called the best rivalry in the NFL in the 21st century.

Their heated rivalry with the Giants is the oldest of the NFC East rivalries, dating all the way back to 1933 and has been considered the best rivalry in the NFL in the 21st century.

Among current NFL QBs, Peyton Manning of the Denver Broncos has been known to call all, or nearly all, of his team's plays using a no-huddle offense.

There are few recognized guidelines in sports regarding retiring numbers, and the NFL has no specific league policy.

Since 2000, St. John Fisher College has been home to the Buffalo Bills ' NFL annual summer training camp.

They won the NFC Championship Game in 2005, and went on to lose in the Super Bowl against the Pittsburgh Steelers ( though it was not without controversy as NFL Films has Super Bowl XL at number 8 on its top ten list of controversial calls ).

This has led to one of the best-known and most popular of the NFL Films Super Bowl films due to the constant chatter and wisecracking of Stram.

No subsequent Super Bowl has ever been blacked out under this rule, as all have been sold out ( owing to its status as the marquee event on the NFL schedule, meaning that tickets sell out pretty quickly ).

The last minute change of venue meant this was not only the last of three Super Bowls played at Tulane Stadium, but the last professional game ever played in the stadium, which was demolished five years later and replaced for the 1975 NFL season by the Louisiana Superdome, which has hosted every Super Bowl held in New Orleans since.

Greenwood recorded a Super Bowl record four sacks but it has gone unrecognized since the NFL didn't officially record sacks until 1982.

The following season, the NFL went to a 16-game schedule, where it has remained since.

This has now happened three times in NFL history ; Super Bowls II and III were both played at the Miami Orange Bowl and Super Bowls XLIII and XLIV were played in Florida ( at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa and Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens ).

The NFL returned its kickoff location to the 35-yard line effective in 2011 ; college football did not do so until 2012.

In 1964 the NFL allowed teams to wear white jerseys at home ; several teams did so, and the Cowboys have worn white at home ever since, except on certain " throwback " days.

In doing so, the Vikings became the second team in NFL history to have a. 500 record ( 8 – 8 ) in the regular season and win a playoff game ( The St. Louis Rams did the same thing only a day earlier ).

The Saints failed to make the playoffs in 2001 and 2002, although in the latter year they had the distinction of beating the eventual Super Bowl XXXVII champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers in both of their regular season meetings, only the second team to do so in NFL history.

He was the only NFL owner to do so.

As a result of this play, NFL rules were changed so that, in the last two minutes of a half or game, the only offensive player allowed to advance a fumble is the player who originally fumbled.

They got to the Super Bowl by winning their first six regular season games, the only NFL team to do so in 1994, and finished the season 11 – 5.

This realignment was dictated by the league as part of the 1976 expansion plan, so that both expansion teams could play each other twice and every other NFL franchise once during their first two seasons.

The night before the game, Ed Sabol of NFL Films met with Hank Stram and convinced Stram to wear a hidden microphone during the game so his comments could be recorded for the NFL Films Super Bowl IV film.

A school overlooked the Rams facility that the NFL designated the Dolphins practice field, so the Dolphins found a more secure field at a local community college.

Not wanting a repeat of that being the designated " home " team in Super Bowl XIII, the Cowboys were able to persuade the NFL to change the rule to allow the " home " team to choose so that they could wear their white jerseys.

In doing so, Oakland became the third wild card team to advance to the Super Bowl, and the first wild card team to win three postseason rounds since the NFL expanded to a 10-team playoff format in 1978.

In doing so, Riggins extended his NFL record of consecutive playoff games with at least 100 rushing yards to six.

This realignment was dictated by the league as part of the 1976 expansion plan, so that both teams could play each other twice and every other NFL franchise once during their first two seasons.

McCloskey soon entered a financial dispute with the NFL, so the league found a replacement in Hugh Culverhouse, a wealthy tax attorney from Jacksonville.

When the league was first organized in 1999, it was originally supposed to stand for " Xtreme Football League "; however, there was already a league in formation at the same time with that name, and so promoters wanted to make sure that everyone knew that the " X " did not actually stand for anything ( though McMahon would comment that " if the NFL stood for the ' No Fun League ', the XFL will stand for the ' extra fun league '").

After the AFL-NFL merger brought the American Football League into the NFL, the NFL began to use three divisions and a single wild card team in each conference for its playoffs, in order to produce eight contenders out of six divisions ; this was later expanded so that more wild card teams could participate.

It is also possible for a team like the 1999 St. Louis Rams not to be scheduled for a Monday night game because of its dismal record the year before, and many other NFL teams ( such as the 2004 Chargers with zero primetime games ) have had huge unforeseen turnarounds that result in lack of MNF attention ( these teams generally receive multiple MNF spots the year after their breakout success, which is great for viewers if those teams continue to play well, and not so great if they return to mediocrity or worse ).

As previously mentioned, Monday Night Football began using a score bug in 1997, the second network to do so after NFL on Fox began in 1994.

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.

Despite the ongoing merger, it was a commonly-held view that the NFL was a far superior league.

As far as the illegal snap is concerned, the non-call was promptly acknowledged by the officials and reported by NBC sportscasters during halftime, but the resulting three points were not taken away from the Bears ( Because of this instance, the NFL instructed officials to strictly enforce the 10-second run-off rule at the start of the 1986 season ).

Still, many sports writers and fans believed that the game was a mismatch, and that any team from the long-established NFL was far superior to the best team from the upstart AFL.

They continued to believe that all of the NFL teams were far and away superior to all of the AFL teams.

Green Bay is by far the smallest market in North America with a major league sports team ; however, the Packers enjoy one of the largest and most loyal followings in the NFL, with avid support stemming from the larger Milwaukee market, throughout Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula, in addition to fans scattered throughout the entire country.

The NCAA passing efficiency formula is far simpler than the NFL formula, as it lacks limits on the four components:

The Redskins finished 5 – 11, the team's worst regular season record under Gibbs ' leadership thus far, and placed near the bottom in the NFL in defense.

The Fire had been one of NFL Europa's most successful teams as far as fan appeal and competitively on the field.

During a pregame interview before the Minnesota Vikings ' opening game of the 2010 NFL season against the Saints, Brett Favre, reflecting on the Vikings ' loss to the Saints in the 2009 – 10 NFC Championship Game, said of the Superdome: " That was, by far, the most hostile environment I've ever been in.

Reed has continued his strong special teams play so far during his NFL career with 4 blocked punts, returning 3 for touchdowns, which tied an NFL record.

He even went as far as being the first coach in the NFL to employ a full-time security man, Ed Boynton, to keep potential spies away and patrol the woods outside Redskin Park.

In 1989, Okoye enjoyed his best NFL season by far, leading the league in both rushing attempts ( 370 ) and rushing yards ( 1, 480 ).

For MLB and NFL broadcasts, the box has been moved into the far left corner, appearing to be outside of the typical 4: 3 safe placement but the picture is letterboxed for 4: 3 displays.

It featured a transparent black rectangle, a baseball diamond graphic for baseball broadcasts on the far left, the team abbreviations in white with their scores in yellow boxes ; the boxes were white for NFL broadcasts until Super Bowl XXXVI, when the boxes became yellow, Then the quarter or inning, time or number of outs, pitch count / speed ( baseball broadcasts ), and the logo of that certain Fox program, such as NFL on Fox or MLB on Fox on the far right.

Since 1995, expansion teams usually played the Hall of Fame Game as their first ever NFL contest ; the teams that have done so thus far are the Jacksonville Jaguars and Carolina Panthers matchup in 1995, and the Houston Texans in 2002.

After wearing out his welcome with the Jags in training camp, before playing in his first game under head coach Tom Coughlin ( who had gone so far as to send a limousine, at the team's expense, to pick up Soward every day for practice, just to make sure he would come ), he was suspended several times by the NFL for violating the league's substance abuse policy.