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From 1920 to 2013, several new teams joined the National Football League (NFL)—named the American Professional Football Association (APFA) in 1920–1921—while others cancelled or consolidated their operations for various reasons. In addition to forming divisions, conferences, and divisions within conferences in different years, the league completed its mergers with the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) in 1950 and American Football League (AFL) in 1970. During the latter season, the NFL consisted of 26 franchises with 13 each in the American Football Conference (AFC) and National Football Conference (NFC). These conferences had five teams in their Eastern Division (ED) and four each in the Central and Western Division (CD and WD).

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    References for this chapter include such books as Jozsa (2010), Peterson (1997), King (1994), and Quirk and Fort (1992). For recent financial data of NFL franchises, see Badenhausen et al. (2013). The league’s history is in the Official 2013 NFL Record & Fact Book (New York, NY: National Football League, 2013), and “History of NFL Franchises, 1920–Present” at http://www.profootballhof.com cited 19 November 2013.

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    For more information about this franchise’s history, see Mamudi and Futterman (2011), B1, “NFL Expansion Franchise Goes to Jacksonville FL,” Wall Street Journal (1 December 1993), B5, and Smith (1995, p. 33).

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    See such articles as “Expansion Houston Wins Battle of Texas,” New York Times (9 September 2002), D4, Walker and Weinbach (1999), B7, and Christl (2005).

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    Frank P. Jozsa Jr.

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Jozsa Jr., F. (2014). After 1970. In: National Football League Strategies. SpringerBriefs in Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05705-7_4

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