- The San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys share the record for most Super Bowl wins. Both teams have
five Super Bowl titles.
- Don Shula, who coached with the Miami
Dolphins and Baltimore Colts, won 347 games in his career. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1997.
- Running bac Jim Brown led the NFL in rushing more times than any other running back. He led the league
in rushing eight times from 1957 to 1965 in his amazing career.
- The Green Bay Packers franchise won the first Super Bowl ever played, which was held in Los Angeles in January
of 1967.
- Former Chicago Bears All-Pro running back
Walter Payton ran for more than 16,000 yards in his 13-year
career.
- The Grey Cup, the super bowl of the
Canadian Football League, is given to the champion of the
Canadian Football League.
- Beattie Feathers was the first player in NFL history
who rushed for 1,000 yards in a season. He accomplished this in 1934 with the Chicago Bears.
- In the year of 1984, the Baltimore Colts
franchise moved to Indianapolis and became the Indianapolis
Colts.
- Jay Berwanger was the first winner of the Heisman
trophy.
- The NFL Pro Bowl, has been played at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii since 1980.
- In 2001, Kansas City Chiefs running back Priest Holmes became the first undrafted player to lead the NFL in rushing.
- Running back LaDainian Tomlinson was not
heavily recruited to play college football because he played
fullback, not tailback, until his senior year at high
school.
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