The National Football League (NFL) is a 32-team professional American football league split evenly between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).
The NFL is the highest professional level of American football in the globe, and it is one of the four main North American professional sports leagues.
Each club plays seventeen games and has one bye week during the eighteen-week regular season, which spans from early September to early January.
Following the regular season, seven teams from each conference (four division winners and three wild card teams) advance to the playoffs, a single-elimination tournament that culminates in the Super Bowl, which takes place in
February and pits the AFC and NFC conference champions against one another. New York City is the league’s headquarters.
List of NFL franchise owners
| Franchise | The principal owner(s) | Purchase price | Year acquired |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona Cardinals | Michael Bidwill | $50,000 | 1932 | |
| Atlanta Falcons | Arthur Blank | $545,000,000 | 2002 | |
| Baltimore Ravens | Steve Bisciotti | $300,000,000 & $600,000,000 |
2000 & 2004 |
|
| Buffalo Bills | Kim & Terry Pegula | $1,400,000,000 | 2014 | |
| Carolina Panthers | David Tepper | $2,275,000,000 | 2018 | |
| Chicago Bears | Virginia Halas McCaskey | $100 | 1920 | |
| Cincinnati Bengals | Mike Brown | >$200,000,000 | 1968 & 2011 |
|
| Cleveland Browns | Jimmy & Dee Haslam | $1,050,000,000 | 2012 | |
| Dallas Cowboys | Jerry Jones | $140,000,000 | 1989 | |
| Denver Broncos | Joe Ellis, trustee | $71,000,000 | 1984 | |
| Detroit Lions | Sheila Ford Hamp | $4,500,000 | 1963 | |
| Green Bay Packers | Green Bay Packers, Inc. | — | 1923 | |
| Houston Texans | Janice McNair & family | $700,000,000 | 1999 | |
| Indianapolis Colts | Jim Irsay | $19,000,000 | 1972 | |
| Jacksonville Jaguars | Shahid Khan | $760,000,000 | 2012 | |
| Kansas City Chiefs | Clark Hunt & siblings and Norma Hunt | $25,000 | 1960 | |
| Las Vegas Raiders | Carol & Mark Davis (mother & son) | — | 2011 | |
| Los Angeles Chargers | Dean Spanos | >$72,000,000 | 1984 | |
| Los Angeles Rams | Stan Kroenke | $80,000,000 & $450,000,000 |
1995 & 2010 |
|
| Miami Dolphins | Stephen M. Ross | $1,000,000,000 | 2008 | |
| Minnesota Vikings | Zygi Wilf | $600,000,000 | 2005 | |
| New England Patriots | Robert Kraft | $175,000,000 | 1994 | |
| New Orleans Saints | Gayle Benson | $64,000,000 | 1985 | |
| New York Giants | John Mara (50%) Steve Tisch (50%) |
$500 | 1925 | |
| New York Jets | Robert Wood Johnson IV and Christopher Wold Johnson | $635,000,000 | 2000 | |
| Philadelphia Eagles | Jeffrey Lurie | $185,000,000 | 1994 | |
| Pittsburgh Steelers | Art Rooney II (60%) & family (12%) | $2,500 | 1933 | |
| San Francisco 49ers | Denise DeBartolo York & Jed York | $17,000,000 | 1977 | |
| Seattle Seahawks | Jody Allen, trustee | $200,000,000 | 1997 | |
| Tampa Bay Buccaneers | Bryan Glazer & siblings | $192,000,000 | 1995 | |
| Tennessee Titans | Amy Adams Strunk | $25,000 | 1959 | |
| Washington Commanders | Dan Snyder | $800,000,000 | 1999 |
