Sunday, July 21, 2019

NFL Empires: 1962

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 from the previous 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 1962 season:

Green Bay (kelly green) won the championship game over New York (dark blue), played in New York, so they expanded their massive empire. Green Bay was undefeated at home -- as was Detroit (gray purple), who came in second in the West, hence their large swath of land. Pittsburgh (yellow) earned second in the East, with a good empire by Eastern Conference standards.

Here is the map before the season started:

Remember Baltimore?

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