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| April 18 2025 | UFPA ratifies a new collective bargaining agreement with the UFL, increasing player pay to $6,200 per game in 2025 and $6,400 per game in 2026, and extending health insurance coverage from four to seven months. |
| April 1 2025 | NFL owners approved a proposal from the Competition Committee to officially recognize AAFC records, including player, coach, and team statistics. This recognition credited longtime Cleveland Browns head coach Paul Brown with an additional 52 regular-season and playoff wins. |
| March 8 2025 | Quarterback Quinten Dormady is released from the UFL, which he claims is in retaliation for his advocacy with the UFPA. The union has declared the previous collective bargaining agreement 'unacceptable and disgusting' and triggered an impasse with the UFL, potentially threatening the 2025 UFL season. |
| January 2025 | Baltimore Ravens donned captain patches for the first time during the postseason. |
| 2024 | Brady Hart from Cocoa High School wins the Mr. Football Award, committed to play for Texas A&M |
| 2024 | Hall of Fame Game broadcast on ABC/ESPN due to Summer Olympics, with Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Lisa Salters, and Laura Rutledge as broadcasters. |
| 2024 | NFL teams designate team captains for the season, with some teams using gold star patches to indicate years of captaincy, ranging from 1-4+ stars. |
| 2024 | Some NFL teams like Green Bay Packers, Seattle Seahawks, and Los Angeles Chargers opt to appoint captains on a weekly basis instead of having season-long designations. |
| 2024 | John Harbaugh surprisingly switched the Baltimore Ravens to using playoff captains with patches for the first time in franchise history. |
| December 30 2024 | San Francisco 49ers lost to Detroit Lions 40-34 on Monday Night Football |
| December 9 2024 | Dallas Cowboys lost to Cincinnati Bengals 27-20 on Monday Night Football |
| November 2024 | United Football League players ratify the UFPA to serve as their official union, transforming the organization into a legal union. |
| November 25 2024 | Los Angeles Chargers lost to Baltimore Ravens 30-23 on Monday Night Football |
| November 4 2024 | Kansas City Chiefs defeated Tampa Bay Buccaneers 30-24 in overtime on Monday Night Football |
| October 28 2024 | Pittsburgh Steelers defeated New York Giants 26-18 on Monday Night Football |
| October 28 2024 | ESPN announced that ESPN+ and Disney+ will stream an alternate animated broadcast of the Cincinnati Bengals vs. Dallas Cowboys Monday Night Football game using player tracking data and characters from The Simpsons. |
| October 21 2024 | ESPN+ exclusively streamed the second game of a split Monday Night Football doubleheader. |
| October 14 2024 | New York Jets lost to Buffalo Bills 23-20 on Monday Night Football |
| October 12 2024 | UFPA claims UFL players have ratified an agreement establishing UFPA as their union, with NLRB recognition of the vote. |
| October 11 2024 | ABC announced simulcasts of six additional Monday Night Football games, bringing the ESPN/ABC simulcast total to twelve. |
| September 16 2024 | Philadelphia Eagles lost to Atlanta Falcons 22-21 on Monday Night Football |
| August 2024 | United Steelworkers and UFLPA part ways, with UFLPA warning members to be cautious of newly organized unions. |
| August 1 2024 | Houston Texans played Chicago Bears in Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, with Bears winning 21-17 |
| March 8 2024 | Jalen Reeves-Maybin becomes the latest president of the NFLPA, succeeding J.C. Tretter. |
| January 6 2024 | Indianapolis Colts played on Monday Night Football, losing to Houston Texans 23-19 |
| 2023 | Jayvan Boggs from Cocoa High School wins the Mr. Football Award, later playing for Florida State |
| 2023 | Football Outsiders shut down, with DVOA stats moved to FTN Fantasy and a historical archive of DVOA rankings dating back to 1979 made available. |
| 2023 | NFL opened representation office NFL Germany in Düsseldorf to handle sponsorship, licensing, and community services. |
| 2023 | Green Bay Packers reverted to naming weekly captains for the regular season and individual playoff games, without using patches. |
| 2023 | ESPN/ABC begins a new 10-year contract for Monday Night Football broadcasting rights. |
| December 2023 | The new USFL announces a merger with the XFL to form the United Football League. |
| December 2023 | UFPA cancels partnership with United Steelworkers and USFL Players Association due to disagreements over the USFL-XFL merger. |
| November 30 2023 | The first flex scheduling for Monday Night Football took place, with the Week 15 matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and New England Patriots being replaced by the Philadelphia Eagles at the Seattle Seahawks. |
| November 17 2023 | A Football Life episode featuring DeMarcus Ware aired |
| October 1 2023 | ESPN+ carried an International Series game with a unique youth-oriented alternate broadcast featuring animated Toy Story characters using player tracking data. |
| September 2023 | ABC added 10 more simulcasts due to scheduling changes during the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA strikes, bringing total broadcasts to 21 games. |
| August 29 2023 | Aaron Schatz joined FTN Network as Chief Analytics Officer after Football Outsiders ceased operations. |
| August 3 2023 | New York Jets played Cleveland Browns in Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, with Browns winning 21-16 |
| June 29 2023 | Lloyd Howell Jr. becomes the new Executive Director of the NFLPA, replacing DeMaurice Smith. |
| June 23 2023 | Lloyd Howell Jr. was appointed as the new executive director of the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA), marking a significant leadership transition for the players' union. |
| April 19 2023 | XFL players vote against joining the union, with 124 voting against and 73 voting in favor. |
| March 10 2023 | XFL players, including Kenneth Farrow, file a petition for a representation election with NLRB Region 16, backed by the AFL-CIO Sports Council. |
| January 13 2023 | A Football Life episode on the 1972 Miami Dolphins premiered |
| January 9 2023 | Collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between the United States Football League and players is signed. |
| January 9 2023 | The collective bargaining agreement is approved by union members. |
| January 2 2023 | During a Monday Night Football game between the Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals, Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed and went into cardiac arrest, leading to a significant and widely-covered medical emergency. |
| 2022 | Creed Whittemore from Buchholz High School wins the Mr. Football Award, later playing for Mississippi State |
| 2022 | Sam Mills was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. |
| 2022 | USFL revival begins with eight franchises from the original 1984 season, including the Birmingham Stallions. |
| 2022 | Tackett Curtis from Many High School wins the Mr. Football Award, playing college football at USC and Wisconsin |
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