The 1994 NFL season was the 75th regular season of the National Football League.
To honor the NFL's 75th season, a special anniversary logo was designed
and each player wore a patch on their jerseys with this logo throughout
the season. Also, a selection committee of media and league personnel
named a special NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time Team, honoring the best NFL players from the first 75 seasons.
The Phoenix Cardinals changed their name to Arizona Cardinals in an attempt to widen their appeal to the entire state of Arizona instead of just the Phoenix area. The name was initially resisted by Bill Bidwill.
The Seattle Seahawks played their first three regular season home games at Husky Stadium because the Kingdome,
the Seahawks' regular home field, was undergoing repairs for damaged
tiles on its roof. The Seahawks returned for the 2000 and 2001 seasons
while their new stadium was under construction.
The 1994 season marked the last one until 2016 that the city of Los Angeles had an NFL team. Both the Rams and the Raiders left the city following the season. The Rams moved east to St. Louis, Missouri after being in Los Angeles for 47 years, while the Raiders left Los Angeles after 12 years to return to their previous home in Oakland, California. The Rams, after failing to reach an agreement with St. Louis on a new stadium, agreed to move back to Los Angeles for the 2016 NFL season.
This was also the first season that the then-fledgling Fox Network televised NFL games. Fox took over the National Football Conference package from CBS, who would return to televising the NFL in 1998. The league also signed an exclusivity agreement with the direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service DirecTV to launch NFL Sunday Ticket, a satellite television subscription service that offers every regular season NFL game. Today the package remains exclusive to DirecTV.
The season ended with Super Bowl XXIX when the San Francisco 49ers defeated the San Diego Chargers. Both teams had met that regular season, the second straight season that had happened, and ninth time overall.
Even though the 1994 World Series was canceled, the NFL ultimately
decided not to reschedule its Thursday night contests in October for
Sunday, even though they wouldn't have competed with baseball those
nights.
This was also the first year of the current practice of whenever Christmas Day falls on a Sunday
that most of that weekend's games were played on the Saturday afternoon
of Christmas Eve. Every NFL season afterwards with Christmas Day on a
Sunday has followed this same scheduling format. Taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_NFL_season
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