NFL Empires: 1969

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 before the seasons.

Since the Super Bowl was played at a neutral site, the winner gains one third of the territory of the loser (splitting the difference between a home game and an away game).

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

Here then is the map of the NFL empires after the 1969 season:

Purple power! Kansas City (light violet) of the AFL beat Minnesota (dark violet) in the Super Bowl, thus expanding their already-large empire. Kansas City had been second place in the AFL West, behind Oakland (light green yellow), but Kansas City beat the New York Jets (dark turquoise) then Oakland in the playoffs, in each of their home stadiums.

In the NFL, Minnesota took all their land during the regular season, then had home-field advantage in the playoffs. Baltimore (royal blue) still had a large remnant of the empire they began the year with, but they only came in second place in the Coastal Division, behind Los Angeles (red). Cleveland (brown) also lost land this year, despite a road playoff victory over Dallas (gray green). To round out the purple on the map, Detroit (gray purple) came in second in the Central, behind Minnesota, and thus weren't in the playoffs.

Here is the map before the season started:

Quite the difference, eh?