Keep pulling the thread on Super Bowl.
82 of the top 100 television broadcasts in the U.S. last year were NFL games.
The National Football League has a long-term strategy of dividing its revenues equally among member teams.
In the mid-1930s, the NFL adopted a policy of racial segregation that banned Black players, a move attributed to the influence of owner George Preston Marshall.
The Los Angeles Coliseum Commission required the Rams to integrate their roster as a condition of playing in the publicly-owned stadium, forcing the NFL to begin desegregation.
The National Football League first earned more revenue from television rights than from ticket sales in 1977.
The NFL, under Commissioner Burt Bell, instituted a college player draft in reverse order of the previous season's standings to promote competitive balance.
The American Football League (AFL) was formed in August 1959 by Lamar Hunt and other prospective owners who were unable to secure NFL expansion teams.
The American Football League (AFL) signed a five-year, $8.5 million league-wide television rights deal with ABC before playing its first game.
Pete Rozelle, the 33-year-old general manager of the Los Angeles Rams, was selected as the NFL's new commissioner in 1960 after 23 rounds of voting by the owners.
The U.S. Congress passed the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, granting the NFL an antitrust exemption to negotiate league-wide television contracts.
The NFL acquired Ed Sabol's production company in 1965 to create NFL Films, an in-house division dedicated to producing high-quality cinematic content about the league.
Pete Rozelle established NFL Enterprises to centralize and standardize all team merchandise and branding, with revenues shared equally across the league.