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NFL franchise moves and mergers
Throughout the years, a number of teams in the National Football League (NFL) have either moved or merged. In its early years, the NFL was not stable and teams moved frequently to survive, or folded only to be resurrected in a different city with the same players and owners. The Great Depression era saw most small-town NFL teams move to larger cities. Several franchises merged during World War II because many players were in the military. Few, if any, of these moves and mergers drew much controversy. Franchise moves became far more controversial in the late 20th century when a vastly more popular NFL, free from financial instability, allowed many teams to leave to abandon long-held strongholds for perceived financially greener pastures. In 1966, Pete Rozelle promised Congress that franchises would not move, a promise made to secure a law exempting the league from certain aspects of antitrust laws, thus making possible the AFL–NFL merger. Despite Rozelle's promise, several franchises have...
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