• Cardinals .... Steelers .... .... Redskins Packers Lions 49ers Colts Rams The 1959 NFL season marked the 40th regular season of the National Football League....
    10 KB (984 words) - 16:41, 30 September 2024
  • The 1959 NFL draft had its first four rounds held on December 1, 1958, and its final twenty-six rounds on January 21, 1959. Both sessions were held at...
    48 KB (204 words) - 16:04, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1959 NFL Championship Game
    The 1959 NFL World Championship Playoff was the 27th NFL championship game, played on December 27 at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland. It was a...
    7 KB (472 words) - 02:49, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chicago Cardinals
    that era. The Bears and the Cardinals also developed a rivalry during those NFL first years. After some irregular campaigns during the 1950s, the Cardinals...
    22 KB (2,463 words) - 03:42, 11 October 2024
  • National Football League (redirect from NFL)
    The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football...
    126 KB (11,679 words) - 18:36, 15 October 2024
  • All-Pro Teams". Redlands Daily Facts. Newspaper Enterprise Association. p. 8. Retrieved January 29, 2017. 1959 NFL All-Pros – Pro-Football-Reference v t e...
    3 KB (295 words) - 14:58, 9 July 2024
  • Buccaneers Falcons Rams Saints 49ers The 1990 NFL season was the 71st regular season of the National Football League (NFL). To increase revenue, the league, for...
    41 KB (5,173 words) - 20:35, 28 August 2024
  • annual NFL Rookie of the Year award from 1955 to 1959 and two annual awards from 1960 to 1996. From 1960 to 1969 the awards went to a rookie from the NFL and...
    98 KB (2,160 words) - 10:52, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player Award
    Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player Award is presented annually by the Associated Press (AP) to a player in the National Football League (NFL) deemed to...
    61 KB (3,796 words) - 02:43, 9 October 2024
  • NFL on CBS announcers include: Andrew Catalon: play-by-play (2013–present) Spero Dedes: play-by-play (2010–present) Ian Eagle: play-by-play (1998–present)...
    16 KB (1,716 words) - 20:34, 14 October 2024
  • part-ownership in an NFL team, Hunt conceived the idea of a rival professional football league, the American Football League. In September 1959, Hunt was approached...
    34 KB (4,130 words) - 21:14, 7 September 2024
  • This timeline of the National Football League (NFL) tracks the history of each of the league's 32 current franchises from the early days of the league...
    136 KB (2,696 words) - 21:30, 14 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Commissioner of the National Football League
    (NFL). The position was created in 1941. The current commissioner is Roger Goodell, who assumed office on September 1, 2006. Until 1941, the NFL's chief...
    65 KB (7,851 words) - 19:21, 14 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for New York Jets
    founded in 1959 as the Titans of New York, a charter member of the American Football League (AFL); the franchise joined the NFL in the AFL–NFL merger in...
    123 KB (11,198 words) - 21:59, 16 October 2024
  • of 1959, he sought the blessings of the NFL for his nascent league, as he did not seek a potentially costly rivalry. Within weeks of the July 1959 announcement...
    80 KB (9,357 words) - 23:28, 15 October 2024
  • The NFL draft, officially known as the Annual Player Selection Meeting, is an annual event which serves as the most common source of player recruitment...
    96 KB (11,038 words) - 17:58, 10 September 2024
  • The National Football League (NFL) playoffs is the annual single-elimination tournament held to determine the league champion. The four-round tournament...
    84 KB (5,946 words) - 22:52, 14 October 2024
  • Buccaneers Cardinals Rams Seahawks 49ers The 2023 NFL season was the 104th season of the National Football League (NFL). The regular season began on September 7...
    247 KB (19,117 words) - 23:22, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for NFL Most Valuable Player Award
    The National Football League Most Valuable Player Award (NFL MVP) is an award given by various entities to the American football player who is considered...
    18 KB (308 words) - 23:34, 10 October 2024
  • Health (NIOSH) examined 3,349 NFL players who played at least five full seasons from 1959 to 1988. Findings showed that while NFL players lived longer than...
    205 KB (12,137 words) - 14:47, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Super Bowl I
    The first AFL–NFL World Championship Game (known retroactively as Super Bowl I and referred to in contemporaneous reports, including the game's radio...
    88 KB (7,050 words) - 00:56, 8 October 2024
  • 4, 2015. "1959 NFL Draft". Pro Football Reference. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved November 4, 2015. "1960 NFL Draft". Pro...
    55 KB (2,248 words) - 20:22, 1 August 2024
  • which does not have alternates. The NFL compiled its own 11-man "All-League" teams beginning in 1931. Through the 1939 NFL season players selected to this...
    14 KB (1,550 words) - 05:46, 15 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ronnie Lott
    Ronnie Lott (category 1959 births)
    Mandel Lott (born May 8, 1959) is an American former professional football player. He was in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons from 1981...
    21 KB (1,538 words) - 15:36, 17 September 2024
  • The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league in the United States and the highest professional level of American football...
    105 KB (5,067 words) - 00:17, 16 October 2024
  • by various news and sports organizations to the National Football League (NFL) head coach who has done the most outstanding job of working with the talent...
    32 KB (695 words) - 22:38, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jerry Richardson
    Jerry Richardson (category NFL player missing current team parameter)
    played two seasons in the NFL, earning Colt Rookie of the Year honors in 1959. He caught a touchdown pass in the 1959 NFL Championship Game from quarterback...
    20 KB (1,748 words) - 14:56, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Metropolitan Stadium
    Minnesota Twins and the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL); both played at the "Met" for 21 seasons, from 1961 through 1981. The Minnesota...
    36 KB (3,553 words) - 23:45, 3 October 2024
  • Montreal held one; the first game ever held in Toronto featuring an NFL team was in August 1959 and inaugurated the city's Exhibition Stadium. One game was played...
    56 KB (2,751 words) - 03:54, 15 October 2024
  • Sterling Sharpe (category NFL player missing current team parameter)
    the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the South Carolina Gamecocks, and played in the NFL from 1988 to 1994 with the Packers...
    12 KB (979 words) - 04:32, 15 October 2024