The 1960 NFL season was the 41st regular season of the National Football League.
Before the season, on January 26, 33-year-old Pete Rozelle, the general manager of the Los Angeles Rams, was elected NFL commissioner as a compromise choice on the twenty-third ballot. Meanwhile, the league expanded to 13 teams on January 28 with the addition of the Dallas Cowboys, with a fourteenth team, the Minnesota Vikings, to start in 1961. Also, on March 13th, the Cardinals relocated from Chicago to St. Louis and became the St. Louis Cardinals, the same moniker as the National League baseball club.