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A franchise is awarded by the league to each member club and serves as the league's authorization to operate as a professional football club in their city. Franchises award member clubs the exclusive right to hold professional football games between league members within a 75-mile radius of their city as well as the exclusive rights to market ...
Team also played in stadium from 1902 to 1908 prior to joining the NFL [26] [27] Bellevue Park: Green Bay Packers: Preble, Wisconsin: 1923 1924 Site of first Packers-Bears game [28] Frankford Stadium: Frankford Yellow Jackets: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1923 1931 [29] Sportsman's Park: St. Louis All-Stars, St. Louis Gunners: St. Louis ...
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 following list contains all metropolitan areas in the United States and Canada containing at least one team in any of the defunct national/international professional outdoor gridiron football leagues beginning with (for the sake of simplicity, this will focus on American football leagues post the AFL-NFL merger) the World Football League onward.
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.
We include some of the greatest teams from the old AFL, and we also include two teams - the 1967 Dallas Cowboys and 2007 New England Patriots - that did not win championships.
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 ]
The NFL decided that the Saints' first regularly scheduled home game against the Giants be played in New Jersey, with the Saints the home team in name only. [25] For the rest of the season, the Saints played three games at the Alamodome and four games at LSU's Tiger Stadium (LSU) (see above).