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8. All-America Football Conference-National Football League

verfasst von : Frank P. Jozsa Jr.

Erschienen in: National Football League Strategies

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In Chap. 9 of Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports, authors James Quirk and Rodney D. Fort discuss the history of rival football leagues as current or potential threats during their existence to the National Football League (NFL). Before the mid-1940s, these included various groups of teams in the American Football League (AFL)as of 1926, 1936–1937, and 1940–1941. Regarding their significance, the first AFL provided competition because of underfinanced NFL franchises based in small-to-midsized towns during the early 1920s while the second and third AFL’s denoted, in part, that their teams’ owners-investors had overestimated the profit potential of professional football markets in various cities of metropolitan areas across the United States (US).

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Fußnoten
1
See Quirk and Rodney (1992, pp. 333–361).
 
2
References for this chapter’s contents include such books as Jozsa and Guthrie (1999); Jozsa (2010); Peterson (1997); King (1994). For recent financial data of NFL franchises, see Badenhausen et al. (2013). The league’s history is in the Official 2013 NFL Record & Fact Book (New York, NY: National Football League, 2013), and “History of NFL Franchises, 1920–Present” at http://​www.​profootballhof.​com cited 19 November 2013.
 
3
NFL Commissioner Elmer Layden said, “Let them [AAFC teams] get a ball, draw a schedule, and play a game. Then I will talk to them.” See Grosshandler (1980).
 
4
Coach Paul Brown, who won four AAFC and three NFL championships, is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and widely regarded as one of football’s all-time greats. The official team portrait of the 1948 Cleveland Browns was of professional football’s first-ever unbeaten and untied season. The squad included seven Hall of Fame members.
 
5
Some great players for the Los Angeles Dons were center Bob Nelson, tackle Bob Reinhard, and in the backfield Charlie O’Rourke and John Kimbrough. Other team coaches were Ted Shipkey, Mel Hein, and Jimmy Phelan. See “All-America Football Conference,” 7–8.
 
6
Prominent New York Yankees players were running back Spec Sanders, defensive back Tom Laundry, and all-league tackles Bruiser Kinard, Nate Johnson, and Arnie Weinmeister. For an overview of outstanding players on each AAFC team, one source is “All-American Football Conference,” 1–10.
 
7
Before the merger, the leagues were in contact and had significant legal and other issues with each other. In 1946, for example, the AAFC challenged the NFL to a series of eight preseason games for charity with the NFL to name the games, opponents, and sites. The NFL declined the challenge. In addition, wholesale litigation was started against NFL players and owners for violation of 1946 AAFC contracts. A temporary restraining order was issued to prevent quarterback Angelo Bertelli from playing for anyone except the AAFC Los Angeles Dons. Later, the decision of Superior Court Felix Forte upheld the equity petition of the Dons and established legality of the AAFC uniform player contract including the reserve clause. In 1947, AAFC Commissioner Jonas Ingram challenged the NFL to a championship game. The challenge was never accepted. During December 1948, committees from the AAFC and NFL met in Philadelphia to discuss mutual problems and devise means of ending the so called ‘pro football war.’ Even without a solution, it was the first official recognition of the AAFC by the NFL and consistent with the AAFC’s desire, first expressed in April 1945, for working agreements to insure the stability and growth of major league football. For more details about these issues, see “AAFC Chronology” at http://​www.​profootballresea​rchers.​org cited 12 December 2013.
 
Metadaten
Titel
All-America Football Conference-National Football League
verfasst von
Frank P. Jozsa Jr.
Copyright-Jahr
2014
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05705-7_8