Thursday, June 27, 2019

NFL Empires: 1954

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 from the 1953 season.

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 1954 season:

Cleveland (brown) won the championship game at home over Detroit (purple), with a final score of 56-10. A week earlier, however, Detroit beat Cleveland in the same stadium, 14-10, to take most of their land. Two weeks before that, Detroit hosted Philadelphia (dark green) and they tied. Philadelphia came in second in the East, while spreading their empire over almost all the eastern lands. Second place in the West were the Chicago Bears (light blue), who didn't even manage to conquer Chicago.

Here is the map before the season started:

The West Coast teams didn't fare too well this season.

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