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  2. NFL franchise moves and mergers - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the years, a number of teams in the National Football League (NFL) have either moved or merged.. In the early years, the NFL was not stable and teams moved frequently to survive, or folded only to be resurrected in a different city with the same players and owners, while the Great Depression era saw the movement of most surviving small-town NFL teams to larger cities to ensure ...

  3. Relocation of professional sports teams - Wikipedia

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    The 1960s American Football League (AFL) is perhaps the most recent example of a successful rival league, having achieved each of the three goals listed above in reverse order. However, all major sports have had a rival league achieve at least some of these goals in the last half of the 20th century.

  4. Relocation of major professional sports teams in the United ...

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    The 1960s American Football League (AFL) is perhaps the most recent example of a successful rival league, having achieved each of the three goals listed above in reverse order. However, all major sports have had a rival league achieve at least some of these goals in the last half of the 20th century.

  5. Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas - Wikipedia

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    The Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas was a successful effort by the owner of the Oakland Raiders to relocate the American football team from Oakland, California, to the Las Vegas metropolitan area, after the 2019 National Football League (NFL) season. The team began play as the Las Vegas Raiders in the 2020 NFL season.

  6. Category : National Football League franchise relocations

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  7. Cleveland Browns relocation controversy - Wikipedia

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    Cleveland Stadium, where the Browns played until 1995.. In 1975, knowing that Municipal Stadium was costing the city more than $300,000 a year to operate, then-Browns owner Art Modell signed a 25-year lease in which he agreed to incur these expenses in exchange for quasi-ownership of the stadium, a portion of his annual profits, and capital improvements to the stadium at his expense. [7]

  8. Category:Sports team and club relocations - Wikipedia

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    National Football League franchise relocations (25 C, 6 P) ... Major League Baseball relocations of 1950s–1960s; A. Airdrieonians F.C. FC Aluston-YUBK Alushta;

  9. Expansion of major sports leagues in the United States and ...

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    The first American club, based in Boston, joined the league in 1924, but American hockey clubs had existed before the NHL expanded into the United States. The first US-based club to compete for the Stanley Cup was the Portland Rosebuds of the Pacific Coast Hockey League , who lost the 1916 series to the Montreal Canadiens (then of the National ...