NFL Empires: 1937

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).

Cleveland (red) joined the league and received a 100-mile radius of land (except only halfway to "capitals" of the land they got). Boston (gold) moved to Washington and received a similar blob of land. (They also technically lost 1/3 of their previous land, but the Maine counties are so large that it was less than a full county lost, so they got it all back.)

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 1937 season:

Almost every county changed hands this season. Washington had a good year in their new home. They won the Eastern Division and then beat the Chicago Bears (light blue) in the championship game in Chicago. The rest of the Eastern Division only held five counties between them (New York (dark blue), Philadelphia (dark green), Brooklyn, and Pittsburgh). Green Bay (light green) came in second in the West.

Here is the map before the season started:

See? Cleveland is red! [Of the Rams' colors through history, dark blue was already taken by New York, yellow by Pittsburgh, gold by Washington, and white isn't a color. I ended up taking the red from the city flag. ... I've already forgotten why the Cardinals aren't cardinal.]