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With Super Bowl 50 being played tomorrow, I wondered if the merger of the two leagues did not happened would there be a repeat of the All-American Football Conference in that three teams (Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns, and the San Francisco 49ers) were absorbed into the NFL? If so, how many and which teams from the AFL would go to the NFL? I would think at least four teams to six teams at the most would go into the NFL. My thoughts are that the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders would be folded because there is already NFL teams in the Market. And for the teams that would go into the NFL, I think that there are several factors in play, market size, travel distance, state of the stadium that the teams are playing in. With that in mind, I think that teams from the AFL that would play in the NFL are San Diego Chargers (close to L.A.,S.F. and new 50k+ stadium) Houston Oilers (Close to Dallas, plays in the Astrodome) Boston Patriots (large untapped market) and the Kansas City Chiefs (owner Lamar Hunt is the reason for the AFL in the first place, close to St. Louis).
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