Word: afc
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...school was a lengthy discussion of their post-WWII creation and exciting 1950 NFL Championship. Then, as an eight-year-old in 1981, I remember crying at school the day after Brian Sipe was intercepted in the end zone when the team was a short field goal from the AFC Championship game. When the 49ers won it all the next year I was jealous, to be sure, but I'm proud that I stuck with my guys...
...AFC West--Denver, Kansas City, Oakland, San Diego...
...matter what happens, no team is going to get exactly what it wants (except Dallas). In the 1970 AFL-NFL merger, Pittsburgh, Cleveland [the present-day Baltimore Ravens], and Baltimore [the present-day Indianapolis Colts] all had to be coaxed to switch into the AFC. Once that was taken care of, the NFC alignment was determined by picking one plan at random out of five possibilities...
...upcoming realignment is much less complicated and contentious, however. The NFL has far surpassed its fellow professional leagues in terms of egalitarianism and fairness towards all. A committee of seven owners, one from each division, (the AFC Central gets two because it's bigger and better) has been working out the details...
...AFC East will similarly want to keep its division together, thus making a Baltimore-Miami deviation from the above plan highly probable. If Baltimore prefers to stay in the same division with Tennessee and Jacksonville, it just might work...