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Owners: Why Do You Ignore The Pre-Super Bowl NFL Championship Games?

Why is the NFL the ONLY professional league organization that intentionally shortchanges their founders by not correctly recognizing their championships? In total, 33 years of NFL championships are treated like “chopped liver”. The term “Super Bowl” is a great marketing asset and should continue to be used, but not at the expense of the pre-merger championships. The term “Combined Championships” should be used to accurately describe the undisputed facts.

I’m going to briefly compare how all four major sport leagues document historic championships as they grew from much smaller organizations and morphed into their present organization. As you’ll see, the NFL’s exclusionary policy regarding historic championships is the only outlier. But, more on that later.

Here’s the breakdown by each of the major team sports:

National Basketball Association (NBA)…Was created through the merger of numerous independent entities including the American Basketball League (active 1925–55), National Basketball League (active 1937–49), National Pro Basketball Association (active 1950–51) and the American Basketball Association (active 1967–76) in 1949). In 1949, the NBA was formed for Championship purposes and was composed of 5 existing teams and 14 new teams for a total of 19. By the mid-1950’s, only 5 were left; 2 more teams were added bringing the new total to 7. The NBA didn’t morph into in its present form until the…