The NFL Thread 2012: Baltimore Ravens win Super Bowl XLVII

[zuvuyeay]

RolStoppable said:

zuvuyeay said:
baltimore ravens are quite a good nfl team aren't they,i mean i like ravens and crows so have a soft spot for them but doing a quick look at them they are quite new and they were the cleveland browns,so who became the cleveland browns again then as they are still around.

i know the usa is a big palce but when i am looking at where all the cities and teams are the east/north coast and by the lakes it really is a lot of NFL teams/big cities isn't there,some good rivalries around that whole area

i know one can google everything but one doesn't like too

It wasn't an existing team that became the new and current Cleveland Browns, it was an all new team altogether, bringing the total of NFL teams to 31 in 1999 which led to the odd picture of the AFC Central having six teams while all other divisions (AFC West and East; NFC West, Central and East) only had five.

When the Houston Texans joined the ranks of the NFL in 2002, the divisions were reorganized to form the current structure (eight divisions, each with four teams). Rivalries with long tradition were kept intact while newer teams in general were put into the Southern divisions of both conferences (the Central divisions of old became the Northern divisions of today). It also helped to clean up some of the regional inconsistencies of the past. For example, I am quite sure that Atlanta was in the NFC West previously.

so they were expanisions then the browns and the texans,were they the last 2 new editions then,yeah i never quite understood some of those divisions but the states is a big place and you have to keep rivalries going if you ask me,it's what makes sport