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Cities that hosted NFL teams in the 1920s and 1930s. Cities that still have NFL teams from that era are in black, while other cities are in red. Only teams that played more than ten games in the NFL are included. In league meetings prior to the 1933 season, three new teams, the Pirates, the Cincinnati Reds, and the Eagles, were admitted to the NFL.
As a result, the league dropped from 22 to 12 teams, and a majority of the remaining teams were centered around the East Coast instead of the Midwest, where the NFL had started. The New York Yankees were added from the American Football League (AFL I) and the Cleveland Bulldogs returned.
The Dayton Triangles were an original franchise of the American Professional Football Association (now the National Football League (NFL)) in 1920. The Triangles were based in Dayton, Ohio, and took their nickname from their home field, Triangle Park, which was located at the confluence of the Great Miami and Stillwater Rivers in north Dayton.
Of the 32 NFL teams, 26 rank among the top 50 most valuable sports teams in the world; [8] and 16 of the NFL's owners are listed on the Forbes 400, the most of any sports league or organization. [53] According to an August 2024 Forbes analysis, the average NFL franchise is worth $5.7 billion, with all teams worth at least $4 billion. [54]
The 1920 Akron Pros were named the first APFA (NFL) champions. The National Football League champions, prior to the merger between the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) in 1970, were determined by two different systems. The National Football League was established on September 17, 1920, as the American Professional Football Association (APFA). The APFA changed ...
Carroll currently ranks fourth on the list of the oldest coaches in NFL history based on when he coached his most recent game. Below is a look at the five oldest head coaches of all time. Romeo ...
No other team in NFL history can match what the Chiefs have done.
In 1984 an unassuming appeal for Tampa Bay fans was placed in a UK American football magazine. It was during a season when the NFL team had lost more games than they had won and were being called ...