The 1990 NFL season was the 71st regular season of the National Football League.
To increase revenue, the league changed the regular season so that all
NFL teams would play their 16-game schedule over a 17-week period.
Furthermore, the playoff format was expanded from 10 teams to 12 teams
by adding another wild card from each conference, thus adding two more
contests to the postseason schedule; this number remains in use now.
This was also the first full season for Paul Tagliabue as the Commissioner, after taking over from Pete Rozelle midway through the previous season.
ABC was given the rights to televise the two additional playoff games. Meanwhile, Turner's TNT network started to broadcast Sunday night games for the first half of the season.
On October 8, the league announced that the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Award would be named the Pete Rozelle Trophy.[1] The season ended with Super Bowl XXV when the New York Giants defeated the Buffalo Bills.
Late in the season, with the Gulf War looming closer, the NFL announced that starting in Week 16 (and continuing until Super Bowl XXV), the league would add American flag decals to the back of the helmet.[2] The flag would return on a permanent basis in 2001 following the September 11 attacks. Taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_NFL_season
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