While the NFL retained its old name and logo, it nevertheless claims the rights to all AFL products and trademarks, including the name and the eagle logo.

Former Browns QB Otto Graham ( left, with head coach Paul Brown ), who led the Browns to 4 AAFC and 3 NFL Championships, and is a Pro Football Hall of Fame member. While the championship losses sowed bitterness among Cleveland fans who had grown accustomed to winning, the team continued to make progress.

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

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.

While Dick Enberg, Merlin Olsen and Bob Griese called the game, Bob Costas and his NFL ' 85 castmates, Ahmad Rashad and Pete Axthelm anchored the pregame, halftime and postgame coverage.

While the Orange Bowl was sold out for the game, unconditional blackout rules in the NFL prevented the live telecast from being shown in the Miami area.

While regular season and post-season games in the NFL are all broadcast by national television contracts on CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN and NFL Network, the television broadcasts are for the most part handled by the individual teams.

While there have been many sports teams in Newark proper, it has spent much of its history without an MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL team actually located in the city itself.

While two other teams in Tennessee ( Tennessee Titans and Nashville Predators ) in the four major North American sports leagues ( NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL ) play in Nashville, the Grizzlies are the only team currently to play in Memphis.

While a member of the New York Giants, Mathewson played professional football in the first National Football League ( NFL ) in 1902.

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.

While the Eagles missed the playoffs on a tiebreaker, McMahon was named the NFL Comeback Player of the Year.

While other NFL teams later employed shifting, few employed this " up and down " technique as much as Landry.

While Tom Landry's Cowboys are known for their two Super Bowls against Chuck Noll and the Pittsburgh Steelers, Landry also led Dallas to three other Super Bowls, and were a Bart Starr quarterback sneak away from representing the NFL in the second Super Bowl.

While there were many hit games that used Glide, including several coin-op / arcade games from Midway Games and Atari Games ( e. g., San Francisco Rush, NFL Blitz, Hydrothunder, etc.

While in the NFL, Page earned All-Pro honors six times and made second-team all-league three additional times.

While Montana won the NFL MVP award and led the team to victory in Super Bowl XXIV, Young still had a good season, completing 69 % of his passes for 1, 001 yards and 8 touchdowns, with only 3 interceptions.

While there are some claims that Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka had been dunked a year earlier, NFL Films president Steve Sabol has stated that he can find no evidence to support it in any footage he has reviewed and that he believes the tradition started with Parcells and Jim Burt.

While there are no direct ties to either the Baltimore or Indianapolis Colts, the sequence of events begun by the demise of the Brooklyn Dodgers NFL team eventually resulted in the creation of the Colts franchise.

While Sun Life Stadium is much newer and cleaner and is considered one of the top facilities in the NFL, with top-notch amenities, the seats are much farther from the field, and even at its loudest, Sun Life Stadium doesn't come close to comparing to that of the Orange Bowl.

While the amount of prep time is at the tournament's discretion, the NFL advocated three minutes until midway through the 2006-2007 season, when it decided on four.

While New York, Los Angeles, and Oakland shared markets with NFL teams, the other teams widened the nation's exposure to professional football — the Chargers moved to San Diego after one season.

While the NFL Championship was not named a Bowl initially, the league instituted the Pro Bowl as the name of its all-star game in 1951, and introduced the Bert Bell Benefit Bowl ( also known as the Playoff Bowl ) as a matchup of the two second-place teams in each division from 1960 to 1969.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

While it touted superior graphics to the 2600 and Mattel's Intellivision, the system was initially incompatible with the 2600s expansive library of games, and some market analysts have speculated that this hurt its sales especially since an Atari 2600 cartridge adapter had been released for the Intellivision II.

While the 320 pixel modes theoretically enable the 7800 to create games at higher resolution than the 256 pixel wide graphics found in the Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Master System, the intense processing demands of MARIA typically meant that programmers created their games using the lower 160 pixel modes.

While side-scrolling games in the vein of Super Mario Bros. are possible on the system ( 1990's Scrapyard Dog is the best example ), it is significantly harder to develop such a title than on a tile-based system such as the Nintendo Entertainment System.

While this does bear some similarity with the classic posture of cowboys firing their twin revolvers from the hip, in games this posture is almost never reflected, with almost all game characters firing twin guns at shoulder level, straight-armed.

While there has been a fair amount of scientific research on the psychology of older board games ( e. g., chess, go, mancala ), less has been done on contemporary board games such as Monopoly, Scrabble, and Risk.

While there are self-contained departments for the creation of arcade, pachinko and pachislo, online, and mobile games, the Consumer Games R & D Division instead is an amalgamation of subsections in charge of various game development stages.

While the game engine itself remained relatively similar between all games in the series, the interface went through many changes.

While Mort ran the paper and metal based sides of the business, the company's founders focused on the development of computer-based games.

While FASA Corporation still manages the FASA IP and brands, FASA Games, Inc. has announced its intention to develop new games under the FASA banner.

While almost any game can be played for money, and any game typically played for money can also be played just for fun, some games are generally offered in a casino setting.

While many games are published and played in other markets such as the United States and the United Kingdom, they occupy a niche status there.

While many titles ( especially the strategically heavier ones ) are enthusiastically played by gamers as a hobby, German-style games are, for the most part, well suited to social play.

While visiting Lake Geneva in 1972, Arneson ran his fantasy game using the new rules, and Gygax immediately saw the potential of role-playing games.

While this made sense for the graphically intensive games that made up the rest of Activision's catalog, since Infocom games were text based, it didn't make sense-the newer games didn't have improved text.

While the term " impi " has become synonymous with the Zulu nation in international popular culture, it appears in various video games such as Civilization III, Civilization IV: Warlords and Civilization: Revolution, where the Impi is the unique unit for the Zulu faction with Shaka as their leader and also as an appearance as unique unit of the Bantu nation in Rise of Nation ( Zulus are among many tribes who make up the Bantu people ).

While the Jaguars managed to win key games in 2005, nine of their final ten games were against opponents with losing records.

While reconstruction took place, the team played its " home " games at Manchester City's Maine Road ground ; Manchester United was charged £ 5, 000 per year, plus a nominal percentage of gate receipts.