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national football league

The National Football League (NFL) has 32 teams. The league was first established in the name of American Professional Rugby Association in 1920, and later renamed as National Rugby League in 1922. NFL is one of the four major professional sports in North America. The NFL groups each team according to the league and department. The 32 teams competing for the NFL are divided into two major leagues: the American Football Congress (AFC) and the National Football Congress (NFC). Each Federation has 16 teams, which are divided into east, south, west and north districts. There are 4 teams in each division.

Rugby, also known as American football, usually starts in early August and lasts for four weeks.

The regular season begins in early September, with a total of 17 weeks.

After the end of the regular season, the three-week playoffs will begin immediately, and the champions of two federations will be decided to compete for the Super Bowl.

Then there is usually a week's truce, and then there is the Super Bowl, which attracts millions of viewers all over the world every year! The time is usually 1 late month or early February.

MLB (Major League Baseball)

Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level professional baseball league in North America.

It was jointly established by the League of Nations and american league in 1902. It is one of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States.

Major League Baseball currently has 30 teams, which are divided into National League and american league. Among them, League of Nations (NL) has 16 teams and American League (AL) has 14 teams. The two leagues are divided into three divisions: East Division, Central Division and West Division. Of all the 30 teams in Major League Baseball, 65,438+0 are from neighboring Canada (toronto blue jays), and the remaining 29 are local teams.

Baseball is the national game of the United States, and the season schedule is from April to 10 every year. Every autumn after the baseball season, the winning teams of the National League and american league will compete in the finals of the World Professional Baseball Series!

National Basketball Association of America

NBA is the abbreviation of National Basketball Association. Founded on June 6th, 1946. When it was founded, it was called BAA, which is the American Basketball Association. It was jointly initiated by the owners of eleven ice hockey venues in order to prevent the venues from being idle outside the ice hockey competition. As one of the four major professional sports in North America.

In China, everyone knows about the NBA and Yao Ming, but in the United States, the NBA only ranks third!

national hockey league

The full name of NHL is National Ice Hockey League, which is a professional sports league composed of North American ice hockey teams. NHL is the highest level professional ice hockey game in the world and one of the four major professional sports in North America. The team is divided into east and west areas, and each area is divided into three sub-areas. The alliance was founded in Montreal, Quebec 19 17. Initially, it had five teams. After a series of expansion, there are now 30 teams, 24 in the United States and 6 in Canada.

National Racing Federation

1946, frans, who was discharged from the naval shipyard, resolutely set up the National Racing Champion League (NCSCC), the predecessor of NASCAR, with his gas station in Daytona Beach as the mortgage, and put the scattered private racing competitions under the control of the League, and set up the first racing points system and winner fund in the United States. The following year, Di Fang flock, a bootlegger from Georgia, became the first national champion of NCSCCC. These successful operations finally enabled Franc to establish NASCAR (National Stock Auto Racing Association) on the basis of NCSC, a management organization that surpassed all drivers, team owners and sponsors.

After half a century's development, NASCAR has become the most famous racing sport in the world. 500 (Daytona 500, the first race of NASCAR every season, is called "the great American racing car". Every year, more than10.50 billion spectators come to the scene to watch the NASCAR competition. Of course, apart from NASCAR, IndyCar Sreies and Rolex series are also the most important motor sports in the United States.