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I have some questions about the 1970 merger realignment and late 60s NFL divisional alignment. First, I know there were a bunch of ideas thrown around as to how the new look 1970s NFL would break down divisionally. Does anyone know what some of the ideas that were scrapped were? I know that the 2002...

Most likely Knox with the Bills or Seahawks since Noll and Shula were both AFC coaches.

Not cheating by checking on www.pro-football-reference.com...... I'd say its one or more coaches who hung around coaching long enough in the 70s and/or 80s.

Chuck Knox?
Bud Grant?
John Madden?
John Robinson?

If I had to guess ONE I'd go with Knox.

Technically you can have a 1-0 game in the NFL today!

A forfeit?

Modell did contact the Irsay family about buying the rights to the name "Colts".

I'd be curious as to how that conversation went, and if anything possibly could have come from it.

I agree. What's even worse is what recently happened in the NBA... The Charlotte Hornets (who were an expansion team in 2002 as the Bobcats) recently had the previous Charlotte Hornets franchise history deleted from another team's and added to their own. Here's the chain of events: 2002: The origina...