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NFL draft
NFL draft: the league's annual seven-round selection meeting, also called the player selection meeting. Reverse-order-of-finish picks, 1936 origin under Bert Bell, compensatory picks, and pick value charts.
NFL Europe
NFL Europe, originally the World League of American Football, was the NFL's spring developmental league in Europe from 1991 to 2007, rebranded NFL Europa in its final season, known for quarterback development and never turning a profit.
NFL International Series
NFL International Series: the NFL's regular-season games played outside the US, launched 2007 at Wembley (Giants 13, Dolphins 10); 62 such games by 2026, spanning London, Mexico City, Munich, Madrid, São Paulo, Dublin, and more.
NFL Network
NFL Network, also known as Nfln, is an American pay-television channel dedicated to the National Football League. It is the first service fully dedicated to the sport and broadcasts live games 24 hours a day.
NFL on CBS
NFL on CBS is CBS's package of NFL Sunday afternoon games, first televised in 1956, NFC holder 1970-1993, AFC home since 1998, streamed on Paramount+, under an 11-year, $2.1 billion-per-season deal through 2033 with three Super Bowls.
NFL on Netflix
NFL on Netflix is the NFL's three-season (2024–2026) live-streaming deal, worth $150 million per year, carrying Christmas Day games; the 2024 debut drew 65 million US viewers and the 2025 Lions-Vikings game set a 27.5 million streaming record.
NFL on Prime Video
NFL on Prime Video: Amazon's NFL package, exclusive home of Thursday Night Football since 2022 under a ~$1 billion/year, 10-year deal, plus the Black Friday game, Wild Card streams, and Prime Vision with Next Gen Stats.
NFL on Thanksgiving Day
NFL on Thanksgiving Day: annual NFL regular-season games on the Thanksgiving holiday, played since 1920; Detroit Lions (since 1934) and Dallas Cowboys (since 1966) host a fixed doubleheader, with a third prime-time game added in 2006.
NFL Players Association
NFL Players Association (NFLPA), the labor union for NFL players founded in 1956; over 2,000 members, CBA through 2030, president Jalen Reeves-Maybin, executive director JC Tretter since March 2026.
NFL playoffs
NFL playoffs: the league's 14-team, seven-per-conference single-elimination postseason ending in the Super Bowl. Began with a 1932 tiebreaker game and 1933 championship game; expanded from 12 to 14 teams in 2020, with only No. 1 seeds getting byes.
NFL Protector of the Year
NFL Protector of the Year: annual NFL award for the league's best offensive lineman, created in 2025 after advocacy by Dion Dawkins and Andrew Whitworth; first winner, Bears guard Joe Thuney, February 2026.
NFL RedZone
NFL RedZone is an NFL Network-produced whip-around TV channel, launched 2009 and hosted by Scott Hanson, showing every touchdown from every Sunday afternoon NFL game across 7 live hours, up to 8 games in the octobox; distribution moved toward ESPN in 2025 and ads were added.
NFL regular season
NFL regular season: 18-week, 272-game schedule; each of 32 teams plays 17 games plus one bye, format adopted 2021 after 16-game era since 1978; determines 14 playoff teams.
NFL Scouting Combine
NFL Scouting Combine, or National Invitational Camp: annual four-day, invitation-only evaluation of top NFL draft-eligible college players in Indianapolis since 1987, begun in Tampa in 1982, testing medicals, drills, and the Wonderlic.
NFL Street
NFL Street (EA Tiburon, EA Sports, January 13, 2004) is a 7-on-7 arcade football game for PS2, Xbox, and GameCube with no kicking, style points, and gamebreakers; Metascore 81, around two million copies sold, followed by two sequels.
NFL Sunday Ticket
NFL Sunday Ticket: NFL out-of-market Sunday afternoon game package (CBS/FOX), launched 1994 on DirecTV, exclusively on YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels since 2023 under a seven-year, over $2 billion-per-season deal; subject of antitrust litigation.
NFL Top 100
NFL Top 100: annual player-voted ranking of the NFL's 100 best players, run by NFL Films since 2011, now an X series; players list top 20 peers; Brady No. 1 four times, Garrett top in 2026.
NFL Top 100 Players of 2024
NFL Top 100 Players of 2024: 14th annual player-voted NFL Films/NFL Network countdown, revealed July 22-Aug. 2, 2024. Tyreek Hill became the first wide receiver voted No. 1; Lamar Jackson No. 2, McCaffrey No. 3, Mahomes No. 4.
NFL Top 100 Players of 2025
NFL Top 100 Players of 2025: 15th annual player-voted NFL Films ranking. Saquon Barkley was No. 1, the first running back atop the list since Adrian Peterson in 2013; ten Eagles made the list.
NFL Top 100 Players of 2026
NFL Top 100 Players of 2026: player-voted NFL.com ranking for the 2026 season. Myles Garrett No. 1 after a record 23-sack, second DPOY season and trade to the Rams; Stafford No. 4, Allen No. 2, Rams had seven players.
NFL uniform numbers
NFL uniform numbers: position-based jersey numbering under Rule 5. Eligible receivers wear 1-49 or 80-89; 2021 expansion and 2023 legalization of No. 0 broadened the ranges.
NFPA 101 Life Safety Code
NFPA 101, the Life Safety Code, is a National Fire Protection Association model code covering life safety in both new and existing buildings, organized by occupancy type.
NFPA 704
NFPA 704, known for its fire diamond, is an NFPA standard rating health, flammability, instability, and special hazards of materials on a 0 to 4 scale for emergency responders.
NFPA 855
NFPA 855, Standard for the Installation of Stationary Energy Storage Systems, is an American National Standard published by the National Fire Protection Association in 2019 that sets minimum fire-safety requirements.
nftables
nftables is the Linux kernel's packet classification framework and the official replacement for iptables, ip6tables, arptables, and ebtables, available upstream since kernel 3.13 and run with the nft command.
NFX
NFX is a pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2015, based in San Francisco and Herzliya, Israel, that manages about $1.5 billion across four funds.
Ng (name)
Ng is a surname romanized from several Chinese family names, most commonly Cantonese for 吴 (Mandarin Wu), also of 伍 and Teochew 黄, and among the world's shortest surnames.
Ng Chee Meng
Ng Chee Meng, Singapore politician and former military officer; Chief of Defence Force 2013-2015, Minister for Education (Schools) 2016-2018, NTUC Secretary-General since 2018, and MP for Jalan Kayu SMC since 2025.
Ng Kim Chew
Ng Kim Chew (黃錦樹, born 1967) is a Malaysian Chinese writer of experimental short fiction and a literary scholar who lives in Taiwan and writes in Chinese.
Ng Man-tat (吴孟达)
吳孟達 (Ng Man-tat, Wu Mengda), Hong Kong supporting actor (1953-2021), 'Uncle Tat' foil to Stephen Chow in mo lei tau comedies from All for the Winner (1990) to Shaolin Soccer (2001); 1991 Hong Kong Film Award winner, died of liver cancer in 2021.