History

Football originally came from the sport of rugby. The first recorded game was played in 11-6-1869.   It was played between Princeton and the Rutgers and these two teams also made the rules for the game. Later on in 1920 Jim Thorpe was the founder and he was elected the first president. The NFL (National Football League) is basically a tournament. And since all tournaments have a championship game, in the NFL was named the Super Bowl. The trophy was called the Vince Lombardi trophy. This was named after the coach who won the first ever coach to win the championship with the Green Bay Packers. The original teams in the tournament in 1950 were:

Baltimore Colts Chicago Bears Detroit Lions Green Bay Packers Los Angeles Rams Chicago Cardinals Cleveland Browns New York Giants Philadelphia Eagles Pittsburgh Steelers Washington Redskins San Francisco 49ers New York Yanks

From then on football started to get more publicity and more teams from different states started to play and today NFL is broadcasted on five different channels and the teams today are: