National Football League

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional  league composed of 32 teams divided equally between the (NFC) and the  (AFC). The highest level of professional football in the world, the NFL runs a  from the week after  to the week after , with each team playing sixteen games and having one. Out of the league's 32 teams, six (four division winners and two wild-card teams) from each conference compete in the a culminating in the , played between the champions of the NFC and AFC. The champions of the Super Bowl are awarded the various other awards exist to recognize individual players and coaches. Most games are played on Sunday afternoons; some games are also played on Mondays and Thursdays during the regular season. There are games on Saturdays during the last few weeks of the regular season and the first two playoff weekends.