NFL Empires: 1928

This is a continuation of my "empire" maps (where victors take the territory of the losers) of the NFL. Different than most such imperialism sports maps, instead of gaining all the loser's land from a victory home or away, the victor only gets territory for an away victory, and just two-thirds of it (or one-third for an away tie).

This is the ninth season of the NFL, starting where the previous season ended and removing Cleveland and Buffalo (distributing their land to neighbors based on distance to "capitals") and adding Detroit (given a 100-mile radius, except only halfway to a "capital" city of the land the new team is taking).

My data was from Pro Football Reference and most of the logos from Sports Ecyclopedia and SportsLogos.net.

Here then is the map of the NFL empires after the 1928 season:

Green Bay (green) gained quite a bit; newbie Detroit (chartreuse) went gangbusters, and Dayton (medium blue) still holds a lot of land. The official winner of the NFL in 1928? Providence (dark gold). They only had three away games (two wins and a tie), and they were against lowly New York Yankees (red-orange), Frankford (beige), and Pottsville (teal). Dayton never played a home game.

Here is the map before the season started:

Not a good year for Chicago.