There are fewer weddings in the United States on Super Bowl Sunday than any other day of the year. Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt, who first came up with the name "Super Bowl" in 1966, was ins...

"If I have to integrate heaven, I don't want to go." "That Jackie Robinson is the fastest man I've ever seen in uniform. [...] The only time I was worried about the game was when Robinson was in th...

Original membership fee for football clubs wishing to join the NFL in its first season, 1920: $100 Number of NFL's original teams that could actually afford to pay it: zero Average value of an NFL...

National Football League American Football League, a competing league to the NFL in the 1960s that merged into the NFL in 1970. American Football Conference, one of two conferences in the post-m...

antitrust exemption A special permission, granted by Congress, for a business to operate in a fashion that would otherwise violate the terms of the antitrust laws passed early in the 20th century t...