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- Run to the Playoffs, a series of live game telecasts on NFL Network, the league's specialty cable channel.
- For the third time in his career, kick returns to record a league-leading 28.3-yard average; Miller scores two return touchdows to finish in equal first with Hester, who averages 26.4 yards per return, better than any player save Miller and Jacksonville Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew.
- Tomlinson earns the A.J. Hawk (four). Saints head coach Sean Payton, having in his first year helped the Saints, winners of just three games in 2005, to a 10-6 record and the National Football Conference (NFC) South division titlist, is selected on 44 ballots to be chosen Coach of the Year; Jets head coach Eric Mangini, as Payton in his first season, finishes second with three votes.
- Having notched 492 points over the season, the Chargers, by virtue of the side's winning 14 games the conference champion, lead the NFC West division for the third straight season; the East division, the Philadelphia Eagles, Cowboys, and New York Giants of which win respectively ten, nine, and eight games, places three teams, seeded respectively third, fifth, and sixth, in the playoffs for first time since 1992.
- For the third time in his career,
- ranking of quarterbacks by career completionstallied.
- enumeration of NFL players by single-season points scored.
- field goalsmade.
- Division III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athleticsconclude.
- Having entered the receptionss achieves 157 yards, and wide receiverBrad Listorti, amongst whose five receptions is a 17-yard touchdown.
- receptionsfor 85 yards and completes a 26-yard touchdown pass to Raphael Robinson.
- For the tenth time since the extra point and posts a kickoff average of 52.8 yards, and running backJeff Beaver, who gains 94 yards on 23 carries.
- The interceptionand returning the latter 46 yards.
- Having entered the
- Saint Louis Rams running back Marshall Faulk, with 26 touchdowns across the 2000 season the record-holder between 2000 and 2003; and Dallas Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith, with 25 touchdowns across the 1995 seasonthe record-holder between 1995 and 2000, fall respectively to third, fourth, and fifth.
- regular season concludes; the composition of the bowl games to be played subsequent thereto is determined and the awardsfor play therein are presented.
- The PapaJohns.com Bowl, the New Mexico Bowl, and the International Bowl—to be contested at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and thus to be the first bowl game held outside the United States since the 1937 edition of the Havana, Cuba-situated Bacardi Bowl.
- The Rutgers University Scarlet Knights coach Greg Schiano.
- punter Daniel Sepulveda, who, having captured the award in 2004, becomes the first multiple winner of the Ray Guy Award—who, as Smith, earn end-of-season awards.
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- enumeration of NFL players by career passing touchdowns—he surpasses Sonny Jurgensen (255) and Dan Fouts(254).
- total career receiving yards.
- voting by the Football Writers of Canada to capture the John Agro Special Teams Award.
- Division Iplayers.
- Saint Louis Rams running back Marshall Faulk and is greater than that of any other player in league history.
- more field goals (520) than any player save Gary Anderson, who, having, as Andersen, been a member of the league's 1980s and 1990s All-Decade Teams, leads the latter by 73 career points and 17 career field goals.
- British Columbia Lions, in his team's eleventh game of the 2006 season and in his twenty-second CFL season, having three weeks thither become the first player in league history to have totalled more than 70,000 career passing yards, completes a 29-yard shovel pass to wide receiver Arland Bruce III to surpass Warren Moon for first place in the ranking of players by career CFL-National Football Leaguepassing yards.
- British Columbia Lions, in his 22nd year, becomes pro-football's all time pass leader (70,596) in the Labour Day Classic game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. This mark surpasses Warren Moon(70,553) in passing yards.
- regular seasongames and earned Pro Bowl honors eleven times.
- offensive tackle Willie Roaf, who joined Seau on the 1990s All-Decade Team and, in his thirteen seasons with the New Orleans Saints, who selected Roaf from Louisiana Tech University with the eighth overall pick in the 1993 NFL draft, and Kansas City Chiefs, started 189 regular season games and earned Pro Bowl honors eleven times.
- Division IIInational championships.
- collective bargaining agreement and establish the league's cable specialty channel NFL Network, will assume control on or about September 7, when the 2006 NFL season begins, replacing Paul Tagliabue, who has led the league since 1989.
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- Nearly two years after his death, Pro Bowl MVP, 1987 Defensive Player of the Year, and 1987 and 1991 United Press International NFL Defensive Player of the Year Awards, and, with the Green Bay Packers, the 1995 Defensive Player of the Year and 1998 UPI Defensive Player of the Year Awards, and was selected to the 1980s and 1990s All-Decade Teams and the 75th Anniversary All-Time Team, is enshrined; his wife Sara accepts on his behalf.
- in league history to have won at least 100 games.
- Three-time regular season and 24 playoff touchdowns.
- training camp; Bentley is declared unable to play during the 2006 season.
- regular season since being selected by the Saints from Louisiana Tech University with the eighth overall pick in the 1993 NFL draft and having been named as a member of the league's 1990s All-Decade Team.
- Dick Butkus Award finalist who was dismissed from the Cavaliers team prior to the 2005season, is the only player selected.
- regular season begins, with the Ottawa Renegades', in view of financial difficulties, having suspended operations prior to the season, after which a dispersal draft, directing the allocation of Renegades players, was held, and with coaches' being permitted, for the first time, to challenge the calls of officials, in a fashion not unlike that employed by the National Football League. Former Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams, having been suspended for the 2006 NFL season for violating the League's substance abuse policy for a fourth time, agrees to a contract with the Toronto Argonauts, although he announces that he plans to return to the Dolphins in 2007.
- regular season games, the third-most by any player in franchise history, and 10 playoff games, during which time he blocked for 14 quarterbacks and 19 running backs.
- Heinz Field against the Miami Dolphins.
- defensiveaward.
- season passing records with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, led the Winnipeg team that reached the 89th Grey Cupin 2001.
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- May 28: Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams, having been suspended for the 2006 NFL season for violating the League's substance abuse policy for a fourth time, agrees to a contract with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League; he announces that he plans to return to the Dolphins in 2007.
- LTU Arena in Düsseldorf, Germany, the Frankfurt Galaxy, behind the rushing of game most valuable player running back Butchie Wallace, defeat the Amsterdam Admirals, 22-7, to win World Bowl XIV.
- misdemeanors, though under the terms of a plea agreement each will have his record expunged should he pay a fine and perform community service.
- drafted first overall in the 2006 National Football League draft by the Houston Texans. 2005 Heisman Trophy winner running back Reggie Bush is drafted second overall by the New Orleans Saints, while his teammate at the University of Southern California, 2004 Heisman winner quarterback Matt Leinart, unexpectedly falls to tenth before his drafted by the Arizona Cardinals.
- April 4: The Buffalo Bills trade Eric Moulds to the Houston Texans. Moulds agrees to a four-year contract.
- April 4: Daunte Culpepper is cleared of misdemeanor charges stemming from a party boat scandal.
- March 31: The Cincinnati Bengals sign Sam Adams to a three-year contract.
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- March 4: the Chicago Bears sign guard Terrence Metcalf for six years.
- Willie Williamsfor salary cap reasons.
- $1.5 million.
- February 26: New York Giants safety Brent Alexander retires.
- February 24: The Chicago Bears signed lineman John St. Clair for three years.
- February 24: The Indianapolis Colts signed defensive lineman Raheem Brock for five years.