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National Football League (view source)
Revision as of 19:48, February 8, 2022
, 19:48, February 8, 2022Clarified on Patriots players
The league would begin to supplant baseball as America's most popular spectator sport in 1958, when the then-NFL Championship Game between the then Baltimore Colts and the [[New York Giants]] was broadcast nationwide (though ironically not in New York City) and ended in a sudden-death overtime win by the Colts. As a result, several NFL franchises are among the most valuable in the world, even surpassing the European soccer clubs.
The league would begin to supplant baseball as America's most popular spectator sport in 1958, when the then-NFL Championship Game between the then Baltimore Colts and the [[New York Giants]] was broadcast nationwide (though ironically not in New York City) and ended in a sudden-death overtime win by the Colts. As a result, several NFL franchises are among the most valuable in the world, even surpassing the European soccer clubs.
However, the league is not without controversy: teams routinely fleece taxpayers to build new stadiums then keep nearly all the revenue earned (even from non-football events such as major concerts), the league itself promotes [[gambling]] (via both [[fantasy football]] and sports betting), and players routinely suffer serious injuries ([[concussion]]s being the most common) which have life-altering effects and, in some cases, have led to deaths (not only the players but innocent parties, the case of [[Aaron Hernandez]] among the most prominent).
However, the league is not without controversy: teams routinely fleece taxpayers to build new stadiums then keep nearly all the revenue earned (even from non-football events such as major concerts), the league itself promotes [[gambling]] (via both [[fantasy football]] and sports betting), and players routinely suffer serious injuries ([[concussion]]s being the most common) which have life-altering effects and, in some cases, have led to deaths (not only the players but innocent parties, the case of [[Aaron Hernandez]] (an unfortunate victim of liberal targeting of Christian players) among the most prominent).
== History ==
== History ==
*[[Buffalo Bills]]
*[[Buffalo Bills]]
*[[Miami Dolphins]]
*[[Miami Dolphins]]
*[[New England Patriots]]
*[[New England Patriots]] (Sympathizers of talent-less players such as Tom Brady and supporters of Aaron Hernandez's wrongful conviction)
*[[New York Jets]]
*[[New York Jets]]
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