Football (2024)

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Who is the losingest NFL team? ›

Their NFC North divisional rivals, the Green Bay Packers have recorded the most wins (799) in NFL history. The league's other still-active charter member, the Arizona Cardinals, have recorded the most regular season losses (803), through the end of the 2023 season.

Linguistically creative students at the University of Oxford in the 1880s distinguished between the sports of “rugger” (rugby football) and “assoccer” (association football). The latter term was further shortened to “soccer” (sometimes spelled “socker”), and the name quickly spread beyond the campus.

On April 7, 1859, Walter Chauncey Camp, the “Father of American football,” was born in New Britain, Connecticut. Camp was a gifted athlete who participated in baseball, crew, swimming, tennis, and track.

The 1972 Miami Dolphins finished 17-0 and won Super Bowl VII over the Washington Redskins. The '72 Dolphins have remained the only NFL team to complete an entire season undefeated.

Four quarterbacks in NFL history have beaten all 32 teams: Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Peyton Manning and Brett Favre.

What is called soccer in Canada today was generally known as football in Canada in the early days of the sport as it is known in much of the rest of the world today. The British Columbia Football Association was the first provincial football association formed in Canada in 1891.

The general use of football in the United Kingdom tends to refer to the most popular code of football in the country, which in the cases of England and Scotland is association football. However the term soccer is understood by most as an alternative name for association football.

Football, or soccer, has been around for centuries with its roots dating back over 2,000 years ago, but it was not until 1863 that England's Football Association (the FA) cemented the sport's full name of Association Football when they established the game's first rules.

Click on each highlighted position for a breakdown of that position's highest paid players for the 2024 season. The Cincinnati Bengals' Joe Burrow is the highest paid player in the NFL. The San Francisco 49ers' Nick Bosa is the highest paid defensive player in the league.

What does FIFA stand for? ›

Founded in 1904 to provide unity among national soccer associations, the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) boasts 209 members, rivaling that of the United Nations, and is arguably the most prestigious sports organization in the world.

In college and the NFL, the things that stop the clock until the next snap are incomplete passes, plays that end with a score, and team timeouts. If a runner carries the ball out of bounds, the clock will stop temporarily but then is started again close to the time the ball is spotted for the next play.

The Philadelphia Eagles lost their undefeated record in week six. There are no undefeated teams left.

The Largest Margin of Defeat in NFL History

The Chicago Bears' 73-0 triumph over the Washington Redskins in 1940 remains the most significant margin of defeat in NFL history – it was one of the most iconic moments in the NFL.

Only the 2008 Detroit Lions and the 2017 Cleveland Browns have gone winless in a 16 game season. Three other teams were winless but in shorter seasons; the Dallas Cowboys were winless in 1960 (0–11–1), the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1976 (0–14), and the Baltimore Colts in the strike shortened season of 1982 (0–8–1).

Among NFC franchises, the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers are tied for both the most titles at five each and the most appearances at eight each. The Patriots and the Denver Broncos of the AFC hold the record for the most defeats in the Super Bowl at five each.