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
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