In Brief : Football Continues Its Draw

NEW YORK — NFL attendance averaged more than 60,000 for just the third time in the league’s 69-year history, the league said today.

The average of 60,426, lower than only the 1981 and 1986 figures, included a single-team in-house record of 622,793, or 77,849 per game at Buffalo’s Rich Stadium. The total represents the second-highest number of tickets sold, behind 634,204 at the Pontiac Silverdome in 1980.