Just a few corrections and suggestions.
The Indianapolis colts would be better named the Indy Racers.
The Colts were created by the merger of several dissolved AAFC clubs. As reported they trace the NAME from the Colts and Miami Seahawks dissolved in '51 But resurrected by the Dallas Texans side of the family which were the Boston Yanks/Bulldogs, New York Yankees and Dallas Texans before being reconstituted as the new Baltimore Colts with some players from the defunct Seahawks/Colts/Texans/Yanks/Bills.
Boston has lost three NFL clubs who moved to DC, Baltimore and Foxboro.
But did you know how close Boston came to having its third team actually disappear?
When the merger talks first started in '66 between the NFL and the AFL, the consensus opinion was that the merger would be like the AAFC merger were several teams dissolved and a few like the Browns, 49ers, were absorbed into the NFL; The other AAFC clubs that died were the Bills, Texans, old Colts among others.
The released AAFC players were used to stock the new Baltimore Colts.
Anyway in 1966 the NFL wanted to do just as they had with the AAFC, absorb some teams, and kill the rest. The NFL proposed to take the most stable AFL clubs into the NFL and dissolve a couple of weaker ones.
One of those to be killed was the Boston Patriots as it was grossly under capitalized, Had no place to play and Boston was not a "football" town.
Lamar Hunt who just died would not hear of it. He said he wanted a "true merger" and wouldn't double cross the fellow owners who bled lots of money trying to make the AFL a success. He "saved" pro football for Boston and New England. He was true friend to Billy Sullivan and the others. It would have been the "third strike" against Boston as a pro football area.
Can you name the other AFL teams that were proposed for extermination?
