National Football League

Choose an answer from the three choices offered after each question and then "Check Your Answers" at the end of the quiz.

1. The American Professional Football Association was founded in 1920 at a Hupmobile dealership in Canton, Ohio. How many teams made up this early league?

• 11
• 22
• 33

2. In what year did the name of this organization become known as the National Football League?

• 1921
• 1922
• 1923

3. What team in 1920 claim the league championship?

• Canton Bulldogs
• Akron Pros
• Green Bay Packers

4. In what year was the first NFL championship game played?

• 1921
• 1927
• 1933

5. In what year did the NFL have the first college player draft?

• 1933
• 1937
• 1941

6. In 1960, Lamar Hunt led seven other men (including another snubbed by the NFL, Bud Adams) to establish a rival league. What was the league?

• American Professional Football League (APFL)
• All-American Football League (AAFL)
• American Football League (AFL)

7. Up until the 2006-2007 season, which team won the most championships.

• Chicago Bears
• Green Bay Packers
• New York Giants

8. In what year did the NFL and the AFL agree to merge?

• 1965
• 1966
• 1967

9. The regular season is a seventeen-week schedule during which each team has one bye week and plays sixteen games. This schedule includes a round robin of six games against a team's divisional rivals, as well as several inter-division and inter-conference games. The season currently starts on the Thursday night in the first full week of September and runs weekly until when?

• late December
• Mid December
• Early January

10. For the most recently completed season in 2006, the NFL is one of the most popular sports leagues in the United States, and has the highest per-game attendance of any domestic professional sports league in the world. The league draws over how many spectators per game?

• 50,000
• 67,000
• 75,000

Check Your Answers

• 1. The answer is 11
• 2. The answer is 1922
• 3. The answer is Akron Pros
• 4. The answer is 1933
• 5. The answer is 1937
• 6. The answer is American Football League (AFL)
• 7. The answer is Green Bay Packers
• 8. The answer is 1966
• 9. The answer is late December
• 10. The answer is 67,000