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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 NFL is the only one of the major leagues to not have any teams based in any Canadian city; the closest teams to Canada are the Buffalo Bills, whose stadium is located 21 kilometres (13 mi) south of the Canada–US border, and the Detroit Lions, whose stadium is located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from Windsor, Ontario.
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.
The NFL announced it is ending the practice of race-norming, but the league also needs to apologize to its Black players who were affected by it. Opinion: NFL should apologize for using ...
NEW ORLEANS -- NFL commissioner Roger Goodell rates NOLA as the perfect Super Bowl host but envisions taking the league's marquee event beyond U.S. borders. "I do think there's a potential that ...
According to a report by the Green Bay Packers, the NFL earned $7,808,000 from TV deals, and split it among its 32 teams evenly. This means that each NFL owner "made $244m last year in 2016". [80] By contrast, the "average NFL player made $2.1m in 2015". The owners of these teams are making hundreds of times what the players are.
In the second-division USL Championship league, Hill’s lawsuit notes there is only one Black head coach among 27 teams. Similarly, in the NFL, the league's player population in recent years has ...