nauka: List of nicknamed NFL games and plays

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This is a list of several dozen National Football League (NFL) games and plays that have been given names by the media, football fans, and as part of a team's lore because of a distinctive play, unusual outcome, or other circumstance. This list does not include games named only for their position in the NFL playoff structure—e.g., the 1963 AFL Championship or Super Bowl XXXI.

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ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FROSTBITE? THE NFL AND STREAMING-ONLY GAMES. I say this as an ardent, lifelong fan of American football, but at this point it seems impossible not to recognise that the NFL is a multibillion-dollar business with a somewhat suspect record on workers' rights. This is particularly the case when it comes to health and safety (Fainaru-Wada and Fainaru 2013;

Evidence: 41 • authority: 88

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FROSTBITE? THE NFL AND STREAMING-ONLY GAMES. I say this as an ardent, lifelong fan of American football, but at this point it seems impossible not to recognise that the NFL is a multibillion-dollar business with a somewhat suspect record on workers' rights. This is particularly the case when it comes to health and safety (Fainaru-Wada and Fainaru 2013;

Evidence: 41 • authority: 72

The National Football League (NFL) was founded in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (APFA) with ten teams from four states, all of whom existed in some form as participants of regional leagues in their respective territories. The league took on its current name in 1922. The NFL was the first professional football league to successfully establish a nationwide presence, after several decades of failed attempts. Only two founding members are still in the league, the Decatur Staleys (now the Chicago Bears) and the Racine Cardinals (founded in 1898, joined the NFL in 1920, now the Arizona Cardinals), which is the oldest NFL franchise. League membership gradually stabilized t…

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The New England Patriots (colloquially known as the Pats) are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area. The Patriots compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The team plays its home games at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, which is 22 miles (35 km) southwest of Boston. The franchise is owned by Robert Kraft, who purchased the team in 1994. As of 2025, the Patriots are the seventh-most valuable sports team in the world and have sold out every home game since 1994. Founded in 1959 as the Boston Patriots, the team was a charter member of the American Football League (AFL) befo…

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The Las Vegas Raiders are a professional American football team based in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. The Raiders compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) West division. The team plays its home games at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada, and is headquartered in Henderson, Nevada. Founded on January 30, 1960, and originally based in Oakland, California, the Oakland Raiders played their first regular season game on September 11, 1960, as a charter member of the American Football League (AFL). They moved to the NFL with the AFL–NFL merger in 1970. The team was almost chosen under the nickname "Señors" when established, as close…

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The following nicknames are given to a unit (defensive, offensive, and special teams) or a secondary nickname given to some teams used to describe a style of play or attitude of teams at times in accordance with phrases in popular culture of the time. They are not the official franchise nicknames of the National Football League (NFL). Since the NFL's inception in 1920, players, coaches, team executives, league officials, and football games have been given nicknames based on either individual achievements, team achievements, historical events, etc.

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Short text topic modelling using local and global word-context semantic correlation.. Nowadays, people use short text to portray their opinions on platforms of social media such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, as well as on e-commerce websites such as Amazon and Flipkart to share their commercial purchasing experiences. Every day, billions of short texts are created worldwide in tweets, tags, keywords, search queries etc. However, this short text possesses inadequate contextual information, which can be ambiguous, sparse, noisy, remains a major challenge. State-of-the-art strategies of topic modeling such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis are not s…

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This list includes the all-time and the active consecutive NFL playoff appearances. Aside from the NFL playoff appearance streaks, this list also includes Championship Game appearance streaks and the NFL championships win streak. Streaks from the AFL are also included. The Green Bay Packers hold the longest consecutive NFL title streak with three consecutive crowns, which they accomplished on two separate occasions: once in the 1920s, before postseason games were introduced, and once in the 1960s, which included winning seven playoff games and the first two Super Bowls. The New England Patriots hold the record for most consecutive playoff games won, with ten postseason wins in a row from 20…

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The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league in the United States. Composed of 32 teams, it is divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and is the premier American football league in the world. Each NFL season begins annually with a three-week preseason in August, followed by an 18-week regular season, which runs from early September to early January, with each team playing 17 games and having one bye week. Seven teams from each conference, including the four division winners and three wild card teams, then…

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The 2003 National Football Conference (NFC) Wild Card playoff game was a National Football League (NFL) playoff game between the Seattle Seahawks and Green Bay Packers on January 4, 2004. The game, which was contested at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States, became notable after Seahawks' quarterback Matt Hasselbeck proclaimed, "We want the ball and we're going to score!" when the Seahawks won the coin toss before the start of the overtime period. Hasselbeck's comment was picked up on the referee's microphone and was broadcast to the stadium and the television audiences. Hasselbeck subsequently threw an interception on their second drive of overtime that was returned for a g…

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The NFL playoffs for the 2024 season began on January 11, 2025, and concluded with Super Bowl LIX on February 9 at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, when the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the two-time defending champion Kansas City Chiefs 40–22 to win their second Super Bowl and fifth NFL championship in franchise history. All playoff teams in both conferences won at least 10 games, the first time since 2012 and the first time since the NFL playoffs expanded to a 14-team format in 2020. This was the second time since their respective moves to Los Angeles where the Rams and Chargers both qualified for the playoffs, after 2018, and their first since sharing SoFi Stadium.