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What happened to all the NFL Championships?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Upper Tupper, Feb 4, 2009.

  1. crusoes

    crusoes Active Member

    Four more than the Minnesota Vikings, that's for sure!
     
  2. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    Ha. Just couldn't resist busting your chops when I noticed it.
     
  3. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    I'll bet if you went on the street in almost any NFL city and asked 100 people which team had the most championships, about 90 percent would say Pittsburgh.
     
  4. Captain_Kirk

    Captain_Kirk Well-Known Member

    The other 10% would say New England.
     
  5. forever_town

    forever_town Well-Known Member

    The Cardinals rule the pre-season.
     
  6. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    Doesn't make it right. Doesn't excuse the likes of ESPN ignoring the pre-Super Bowl era.
     
  7. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    Is it different than referring to World Series titles and ignoring the championships won before there was a World Series?
     
  8. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Yes.

    Thank You Wiki

    The original World Series
    Until the formation of the American Association in 1882 as a second major league, the National Association and then the National League represented the top level of organized baseball in the United States. All championships went to whoever had the best record at the end of the season, without a postseason series being played. Starting in 1884 and going through 1890, the National League and the American Association faced each other in a series of games at the end of the season to determine an overall champion. These matchups were disorganized in comparison to the modern Series: games played ranged from as few as three in 1884 to a high of 15 in 1887 (Detroit beat St. Louis 10 games to 5), and both the 1885 and 1890 Series ended in ties, each team having won three games with one tie game.

    Although these series were promoted and referred to as the "The Championship of the United States",[2] "World's Championship Series", or "World's Series" for short, they are not officially recognized as part of World Series history by Major League Baseball.[3] Major League Baseball, in general, regards 19th century events as a prologue to the Modern Era of baseball, which is defined by the two current major leagues.

    Until about 1960, the 19th century Series were often considered to have equal merit with the modern Series, particularly in encyclopedias such as Ernest Lanigan's Baseball Cyclopedia from 1922, and Turkin and Thompson's Encyclopedia of Baseball series throughout the 1950s. The Sporting News Record Book, by contrast, which began publishing in the 1930s, only listed the modern Series, although the TSN record books did include regular-season achievements for all the 19th century leagues. Also, a paperback from 1961 called World Series Encyclopedia, edited by Don Schiffer, mentioned the 1880s and 1890s Series' in the introduction but otherwise left them out of the discussion.


    [edit] 1892–1900: "The Monopoly Years"
    Further information: List of World Series#1892-1900: "The Monopoly Years"
    Following the collapse of the American Association after the 1891 season, four of its clubs were admitted to the National League. The league championship was awarded in 1892 by a playoff between half-season champions. This scheme was abandoned after one season. Beginning in 1893 — and continuing until divisional play was introduced in 1969 — the pennant was awarded to the first-place club in the standings at the end of the season. For four seasons, 1894–97, the league champions played the runners-up in the post season championship series called the Temple Cup. A second attempt at this format was the Chronicle-Telegraph Cup series, which was played only once, in 1900.

    In 1901 the American League was formed as a second major league. No championship series would be played in 1901 or 1902 as the National and American Leagues fought each other for business supremacy.
     
  9. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    ESPN once did a list of the top 10 receivers ever and didn't list a single player who played before 1967. Yup, no Don Hutson.
     
  10. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    All of which means what?
     
  11. Sam Mills 51

    Sam Mills 51 Well-Known Member

    Why am I not surprised?
     
  12. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    It means 'yab knows how to post from Wikipedia.

    Yeah, it's different. The NFL championships count, because there is really little difference between that league and the one we have today, except for the mergers and expansions.

    Those 19th-century "World Series" -- and there weren't that many of them, only seven from 1884-89 while the American Association existed -- were definitely exhibitions, no different than barnstorming tours that teams used to take back then to rake in a few extra dollars. Those series weren't considered champion-determining, post-season playoff games at the time, but that label was kind of retroactively applied after the popularity of the World Series took hold later. The old-timers wanted to have their "World Series," too. But truthfully, the only glamorous "postseason" series in those days was Albert Spalding's round-the-world tour.

    Doesn't really make sense for, say, the Braves to celebrate their 1892 title to go along with 1914, 1957 and 1995.
     
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