Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. From 1970 to 1996, the United Press International awarded the NFC Player of the Year to players from the NFL's National Football Conference (NFC).United Press International (UPI) is a once-major international news agency, whose newswires, photo, news film and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines and radio and television stations for most of the twentieth century. Today it is much smaller, with a different customer and product focus.Formally named "United Press Associations", for incorporation and legal purposes, but publicly known and identified as "United Press" or "UP," it was created by the 1907 "uniting" of three smaller news syndicates by Midwest newspaper publisher E. W. Scripps.