Colts vs Giants championship in 1958. – I’m one of those folks who was devastated by the Colts being moved to Indianapolis. I started rooting for the Steelers. Then the Cleveland Browns became the Baltimore Ravens. Now I root for both teams, except when they play each other.
History_of_the_National_Football_League AT Wikipedia
The National Football League (NFL) was founded in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (APFA) with ten teams from four states, all of whom existed in some form as participants of regional leagues in their respective territories. The league took on its current name in 1922. The NFL was the first professional football league to successfully establish a nationwide presence, after several decades of failed attempts. Only two founding members are still in the league, the Decatur Staleys (now the Chicago Bears) and the Racine Cardinals (founded in 1898, joined the NFL in 1920, now the Arizona Cardinals), which is the oldest NFL franchise.
While baseball is known as “America’s national pastime,” football is the most popular spectator sport in the United States. According to the Harris Poll, professional football moved ahead of baseball as the fans’ favorite in 1965, during the emergence of the NFL’s challenger, the American Football League, as a major professional football league. Football has remained America’s favorite sport ever since. In a Harris Poll conducted in 2008, the NFL was the favorite sport of as many people (30%) as the combined total of the next three professional sports – baseball (15%), auto racing (10%), and hockey (2%). Additionally, football’s American television viewership ratings now surpass those of other sports, although football season comprises far fewer games than the seasons of other sports.