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Pro Football Belt - Nerdlinger - 09-20-2022 07:24 PM
I thought some folks here might be interested in this: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dUQE4MHBk3rxDIwkHDtsgIE-7qMiGN9D/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=115014927018698822673&rtpof=true&sd=true
It's the same principle as the unofficial College Football Belt: you start with the winner of the first game ever played and track the "belt" up to the present. Any questions, please ask!
RE: Pro Football Belt - BePcr07 - 09-21-2022 02:12 PM
By Franchise (Most Recent Name):
144 - Chicago Bears
125 - Green Bay Packers
86 - New England Patriots, New York Giants
82 - Indianapolis Colts
69 - Pittsburgh Steelers
65 - Dallas Cowboys
62 - Washington Commanders
61 - Philadelphia Eagles
52 - San Francisco 49ers
50 - Denver Broncos
49 - Los Angeles Rams
47 - Oakland Raiders
45 - Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs
42 - Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions
38 - Minnesota Vikings
36 - Los Angeles Chargers
33 - New Orleans Saints
30 - Frankford Yellow Jackets
29 - Buffalo Bills
28 - Atlanta Falcons
27 - Miami Dolphins
20 - Canton Bulldogs, Seattle Seahawks
19 - Tennessee Titans
16 - Cincinnati Bengals, Baltimore Ravens
13 - Akron Pros, New York Jets
9 - Brooklyn Dodgers, Cleveland Bulldogs, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
8 - Dayton Triangles
7 - Providence Steam Rollers
6 - Carolina Panthers, Detroit Panthers, New York Yankees*
5 - New York Yankees*
4 - Jacksonville Jaguars
3 - Boston Yanks, Detroit Wolverines
2 - Buffalo All-Americans
1 - Dallas Texans^, Houston Texans
* Two different New York Yankees.
^ Different Dallas Texans than precursor to Kansas City Chiefs.
Every current franchise has at least 1 week with the belt.
By Current Division (excluding defunct teams):
NFC North: 349
NFC East: 274
AFC West: 178
NFC West: 163
AFC East: 155
AFC North: 146
AFC South: 106
NFC South: 76
RE: Pro Football Belt - Nerdlinger - 09-21-2022 04:27 PM
Good show with the tallies of number of games played with the belt.
Just in case anyone noticed, there were technical breaks in the line of succession if you use the franchises as listed on Pro Football Reference, where I pulled the data from in the first place. There are three potential cases of franchises taking the belt with them as they either folded or went on hiatus: the Canton Bulldogs after the 1923 season, the Cleveland Bulldogs after the 1927 season, and the Boston Yanks after the 1948 season. However, in those cases, I did a little research to find out which team in the following season could be considered the most direct continuation of each franchise.
- After their 1923 campaign, the Canton Bulldogs were bought by the owner of the Cleveland Indians (the NFL ones), who merged the clubs into the Cleveland Bulldogs for the 1924 season.
- Despite returning from a hiatus that lasted for all of 1926, the Cleveland Bulldogs franchise was sold following the 1927 season and moved to Detroit to become the Wolverines for 1928.
- And the owner of the Boston Yanks deliberately had the NFL fold his franchise (as a tax write-off!) after the 1948 season and give him a new one, the New York Bulldogs, for 1949.