Friday, June 21, 2019

NFL Empires: 1952

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).

Before the season, the New York Yanks folded. Their land was given to the neighbor with the closest capital (the New York Giants). Also, Dallas got a new team, and with it, the land within 100 miles.

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

Here then is the map of the NFL empires after the 1952 season:

Detroit (purple) beat Cleveland (brown) in the championship game, played in Cleveland. Thus not much brown remains on the map. Green Bay (light green) came in fourth in the National Conference, while Philadelphia (dark green) were third in the American Conference, but they were good enough to both gain large swaths of land. New York (dark blue) and Los Angeles (red) came in second in their conferences, but didn't fare so well in empire building. Dallas (blue teal) came in last place and lost all their land.

Here is the map before the season started:

Green attack!

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