Sports Alternate History.

I've been on a bit of a sports (specifically gridiron football) recently, so I was thinking maybe there could be a thread to talk about alternate history in sports.

I'll start: What if negotiations between the NFL and the AFL in the 1960s broke down (they had once before, in 1965), and the leagues don't merge, at least, not in the 60s or 70s. What effect would this have on gridiron football? Would other leagues survive, bolstered by the example of a successful non-NFL league? I am thinking specifically about the WFL and minor football leagues that were around at the time. With two "big leagues" and talent thus diluted, these leagues wouldn't be facing the overwhelming behemoth that the NFL is and was. Of course, the WFL might still be done in by how incompetent it was run.

How would expansion teams look in such a scenario? Where would the NFL and AFL look to place teams?
 
I've been on a bit of a sports (specifically gridiron football) recently, so I was thinking maybe there could be a thread to talk about alternate history in sports.

I'll start: What if negotiations between the NFL and the AFL in the 1960s broke down (they had once before, in 1965), and the leagues don't merge, at least, not in the 60s or 70s. What effect would this have on gridiron football? Would other leagues survive, bolstered by the example of a successful non-NFL league? I am thinking specifically about the WFL and minor football leagues that were around at the time. With two "big leagues" and talent thus diluted, these leagues wouldn't be facing the overwhelming behemoth that the NFL is and was. Of course, the WFL might still be done in by how incompetent it was run.

How would expansion teams look in such a scenario? Where would the NFL and AFL look to place teams?

Hey, Dude, welcome aboard.

Actually, we have some sports threads already. One is about the topic you mentioned above, and another is about general Sports what ifs:

https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=229058

https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=49926
 
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