The NFL Explained in 90 Seconds — Transcript

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1. 0:00The National Football League, also known
2. 0:02as the NFL, consists of 32 teams divided
3. 0:06equally among two conferences, the AFC
4. 0:09and NFC. This is what makes the toughest
5. 0:12league in the world so special. Each
6. 0:16conference is further divided into four
7. 0:18divisions, the AFC and NFC North, South,
8. 0:22East, and West. Each division has four
9. 0:25teams, and they play 17 regular season
10. 0:27games. Teams will play half their games
11. 0:30at home and half as the visiting team.
12. 0:33At the end of the regular season, 14
13. 0:36teams qualify for the playoffs. Seven
14. 0:38from the AFC and seven from the NFC.
15. 0:41This includes four division winners and
16. 0:44three wildcard teams. Wildcard teams are
17. 0:48non-division winners with the best
18. 0:50record in the conference. The playoffs
19. 0:53follow a single elimination format. The
20. 0:55number one seed in each conference gets
21. 0:57a first round buy, meaning they skip the
22. 1:00first round. The remaining six teams in
23. 1:02each conference play in the wildcard
24. 1:04round. Winners advance to the divisional
25. 1:06round and then to the conference
26. 1:08championship, the AFC and NFC champions
27. 1:12face off in the Super Bowl, the biggest
28. 1:14game of the year.
29. 1:17The winner of the Super Bowl is crowned
30. 1:19the champion and wins the Vince Lombardi
31. 1:21Trophy.
32. 1:22That's an overview of how the NFL works.
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