Mark's Blog

 And now, the final of the big four leagues, and it's the biggest of them: the NFL. The NFL has a vaguely similar history to MLB. There was initially one league, whose name started with "National." A competing league, whose name started with "American," later formed. The two began to have an inter-league championship, and ultimately became a single entity. The difference is, in football this happened much later. The first Super Bowl was contested after the 1966 season (it also wasn't known as the Super Bowl until the third such contest). I had a few choices to make here: In baseball, I didn't consider anything that happened before the first World Series, but that was in 1903. In football, I feel like 1966 is too recent. I decided to go back to the first NFL championship without the APFA, which was 1933. The next consideration: Should I factor in the AFL from before the Super Bowl era? For now, I opted for "no" on this one, but I might change my