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The Foolish Club were the owners of the eight original franchises of the American Football League (AFL). When Texas oil magnates Lamar Hunt and Bud Adams Jr. were refused entry to the established National Football League (NFL) in 1959, they founded franchises in Dallas and Houston, and recruited businessmen in six other U.S. markets to form an eight-team rival circuit, calling it the American ...
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.
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.
[52] 26 of the 32 NFL teams 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]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 December 2024. The following is a list of current National Football League franchise owners: Franchise Principal owner Since Ref. Arizona Cardinals Michael Bidwill 1932 Atlanta Falcons Arthur Blank [a] 2002 Baltimore Ravens Steve Bisciotti [a] 2004 Buffalo Bills Terry Pegula 2014 Carolina Panthers ...
List of NFL players with a passing, rushing, and receiving touchdown in a single game; List of NFL Pro Bowl records; List of NFL quarterbacks with 5,000 passing yards in a season; List of NFL quarterbacks with seven touchdown passes in a game; List of NFL receivers who have won the triple crown; List of NFL Week 1 win–loss records
National Football League teams seasons (34 C, 33 P) Defunct National Football League teams (55 C, 51 P) National Football League franchise relocations (25 C, 6 P)
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 ...