Sunday, May 12, 2019

NFL Empires: 1939

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).

There were no changes to the teams between seasons, so the 1939 map starts where 1938 ended.

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 1939 season:

Green Bay (light green) won the championship game at home over New York (dark blue). Green Bay lost early at home to Cleveland (red), who finished 5-5-1, so the champions actually lost ground this year. New York expanded their territory while the Chicago Bears (light blue) gained ground as second place in the West and Washington (gold) held most of their land as second place in the East.

Here is the map before the season started:

The Cardinals lost their Inyo.

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