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Paid attendance for all NFL games set a record for the third consecutive year, the NFL announced today.

NFL paid attendance for all 2004 games was 21,708,624, an increase of nearly 70,000 (69,584) over the previous record total of 21,639,040 in 2003. It marked the third year in a row – and only the third time in league history -- that the 21-million paid attendance mark was reached.

The 2004 NFL regular-season total paid attendance of 17,000,811 and the average of 66,409 per game were both all-time records as well.

A total of 3,918,848 tickets were sold for 65 preseason games for an average of 60,290. Twelve postseason games produced a sale of 788,965, including 78,125 for Super Bowl XXXIX.

For the fifth consecutive year, the Washington Redskins set an all-time NFL regular-season home paid attendance record of 707,920 for eight games. Three other teams topped the 600,000 paid total at home in 2004: the New York Giants (629,874), Kansas City (623,264) and the New York Jets (622,985).

Twelve teams drew more than 1.1 million paid attendance home and away during the regular season, led by Washington (1,238,813). The others were: New York Giants (1,152,017), Kansas City (1,138,683), Miami (1,137,595), New York Jets (1,128,452), Cleveland (1,116,652), Denver (1,115,392), Carolina (1,113,533), New England (1,108,557), Baltimore (1,108,214), Atlanta (1,107,180), and Green Bay (1,103,328).