NFLSchedule2010: Notice Each Pro Football Matches Scheduled For The Forthcoming Season
As you are probably aware the NFL is made up of of thirty two clubs. Each franchise is allowed a maximum of fifty-three players on their body count, but teams may only dress forty-five to participate each week during the normal season.
Most of the large metropolitan areas in the United States have an NFL franchise (although Los Angeles, the second-largest metropolitan area in the country, has not hosted an NFL team since 1994!)
Each April, each National Football League franchise seeks to add new players to its roster through a collegiate draft known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting, which is more commonly known as the NFL Draft.
Teams are ranked in inverse order based on the previous season’s record, with the team having the worst record picking first, and the second-worst picking second, and so on. Regardless of regular season records, the last two picks of each round go to the two teams in the Super Bowl immediately preceding the draft, with the Super Bowl champion picking last.
The draft proceeds for seven rounds. Rounds 1 and 2 are run on Saturday of draft weekend, rounds 3 thru 7 are run on Sunday. Teams are given ten minutes in the first round of the draft, seven in the second round and five in all other rounds. If the pick is not made in the allotted time, subsequent teams in the draft may draft before them.
The season concludes with a twelve-team tournament used to determine the teams to play in the Super Bowl. The tournament brackets are made up of six teams from each of the league’s two conferences, the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC), following the end of the 16-game regular season.
The four division champions from each conference (the team in each division with the best regular season won-lost-tied record), are seeded one through four based on their regular season records.
In each conference, the third and sixth seeded teams, and the fourth and fifth seeds, face each other during the first round of the playoffs, dubbed the Wild Card Playoffs.
The first and second seeds from each conference receive a bye in the first round, which entitles these teams to automatically advance to the second round, the Divisional Playoff games, to face the winning teams from the first round.
In round two, the highest surviving seed (#1) always plays the lowest surviving seed in their conference. And in any given playoff game, whoever has the higher seed gets the home field advantage.
The two surviving teams from the Divisional Playoff games meet in Conference Championship games, with the winners of those contests going on to face one another in the Super Bowl in a game located at a neutral venue that is either indoors or in a warm-weather locale. The designated “home team” alternates year to year between the conferences.
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