NFL Empires: 1953

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, Dallas folded. They had no land anyway. Also, Baltimore got a new team, and with it, the land within 100 miles except the land controlled by a nearer capital.

The conferences were renamed Eastern and Western, but they otherwise stayed the same as before. Thus the Chicago Cardinals were in the East and Baltimore was in the West.

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 1953 season:

For the second year in a row, Detroit (purple) beat Cleveland (brown) in the championship game. This year, the game was in Detroit, so no land was exchanged. Cleveland's only losses were away from home, so they expanded their empire nicely. Detroit, meanwhile, lost at home early in the season to Los Angeles (red) and never beat a major land-holding team after that. San Francisco (burgundy) came in second in the West and gained most of their land when they beat Los Angeles in the middle of the season. Philadelphia (dark green) tied Washington (gold) at home early to lose Texas, but then beat Pittsburgh (yellow) to gain new holdings elsewhere.

Here is the map before the season started:

Oh yeah, and Green Bay (light green) came in last in the West.