NFL Empires: 1959

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 teams from the 1958 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 1959 season:

Baltimore (medium blue) beat New York (dark blue) in the championship game, but it was played in Baltimore, so no land was won. Baltimore lost land this year, despite the championship, by losing at home to the Chicago Bears (light blue) and then Cleveland (brown) (both were second place in their divisions). Baltimore then beat the Bears in Chicago, but it was already after the Bears had lost at home to last-place Los Angeles (red). Pittsburgh (yellow) managed a large empire despite a mediocre record, thanks to key road victories in the second half of the season over Cleveland and New York.

Here is the map before the season started:

It's getting harder and harder to hold an empire for multiple seasons.