Talk:American Football League (1940)
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I'm going to delete the following paragraph from the "Demise" section:
Unlike Douglas MacArthur, the league did not return, although a new league, the All-America Football Conference, filled the void in 1946, one year after the end of World War II.[1]
The first part is snappy but not exactly encyclopedic. As for the second, I don't know how a league which was formed four years later, and only covered two of the same markets, really "filled the void" left by the demise of the AFL. SixFourThree (talk) 14:28, 12 March 2008 (UTC)SixFourThree
- "Encyclopedic" is in the mind of the beholder, apparently. The original is preferable to the "new" ending (the AFL ceased being a competitor to the NFL as a result of World War II and did not return) - and a clarification might be the compromise that should work here. 147.70.242.40 (talk) 19:13, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
"The void" was left by the departure of a competing major football league for World War II. The worst threat to the NFL between 1942 and 1945 was the U.S. Military. While the 1940-41 AFL wasn't in the greatest of shape (and at that time, the NFL wasn't much better financially), it had five of its six charter franchises in the same location (with Detroit slated to be the new sixth member in 1942), and for the most part, they were at least coming close to breaking even. Not even the AAFC could legitimately claim this.
As for the "compromise" mentioned above. I can live with it. It works... and, yes, "encyclopedic" is in the mind of the beholder (see Gladys the Swiss Dairy Cow - and, no, despite the "award" the cow's owner posted on my talk page, I do not believe that article is encyclopedic). B.Wind (talk) 01:32, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] "The name would remain unused..."
Removing statement that said that the AFL name would be unused until 1959, when Lamar Hunt formed the fourth major league AFL: after the suspension of AFL III, there were two more AFL's in the 1940s: the 1944 version (which merged with the PCL in 1945, and the continuation of the American Association, which adopted the AFL name when it was revived in 1946. 147.70.242.40 (talk) 14:42, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
