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The Cardinals entered the American Association in 1882 as the St. Louis Brown Stockings.
1920. The name was changed to National Football League in 1922.
The NCAA was created in 1906 as the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (IAAUS) in response to Theodore Roosevelt's concern of the violence found in college football. The name was changed to National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1910.
At first, the NFL was called the American Professional Football Association but the name was changed after two years to National Football League. There was no real reason behind the name change.