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National Football League
The
National Football League
(
NFL
) is a professional
American football
league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the
National Football Conference
(NFC) and the
American Football Conference
(AFC). The NFL is one of the four
major professional sports leagues
in
North America
, and the highest professional level of American football in the world. The NFL's
17-week regular season
runs from the week after
Labor Day
to the week after
Christmas
, with each team playing sixteen games and having one bye week. Following the conclusion of the regular season, six teams from each conference (four division winners and two wild card teams) advance to the
playoffs
, a
single-elimination tournament
culminating in the
Super Bowl
, played between the champions of the NFC and AFC.
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