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Recent surveys have shown that the current, post-merger NFL is approximately 67–71% non-white (this includes African Americans, Polynesians, non-white Hispanics, Asians, and people that are mixed race), significantly higher than the national average; certain positions, such as cornerback and running back, are almost entirely black.
The American Football League (AFL) began operations with eight teams as a rival to the NFL. Dallas Cowboys were enfranchised by the NFL. Chicago Cardinals moved to St. Louis. The roster limit was raised to 38 players per team for the 1960 season. [8]
At the local level, NFL games were the highest-ranked shows in NFL markets 92% of the time. [130] Super Bowls account for the 22 most-watched programs (based on total audience) in US history, including a record 167 million people that watched Super Bowl XLVIII, the conclusion to the 2013 season. [131]
The Great Depression of 1929 created hardships for African-American players. With the stock market collapsed, white owners of the teams didn't want to pay African-American players. The owners claimed that it would be a bad look to see African-Americans working and getting paid while so many white people were without a job.
The Bengals entered the NFL in 1970 as a result of the AFL–NFL merger and were placed in the newly formed American Football Conference alongside the Browns. [141] A career-ending injury to Cook before the 1970 season forced the Bengals to rely on Virgil Carter , an emergency backup who could make accurate short passes but could not throw the ...
Until this week, when it finally felt enough public pressure, the league was essentially pressing doctors to use race-based information to deny retired Black players settlement money they deserved.
George Preston Marshall (October 11, 1896 – August 9, 1969) was an American professional football executive who founded the National Football League (NFL)'s Washington Redskins. He founded the team as the Boston Braves in 1932. The following season, he relocated the club from Braves Field to Fenway Park and renamed them as the Redskins.
Arthur B. "Mickey" McBride (March 20, 1888 – November 10, 1972) was the founder of the Cleveland Browns professional American football team in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and National Football League (NFL). During McBride's tenure as owner of the Browns from 1944 to 1953, the team won five championships in seven appearances, by ...