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Don't Fear De Remer: NFL Realignment is Coming

AFC South--Jacksonville, Miami, Houston, Tennessee

AFC West--Denver, Kansas City, Oakland, San Diego

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NFC East--Dallas, New York, Philadelphia, Washington

NFC Central--Chicago, Detroit, Green Bay, Minnesota

NFC South--Atlanta, Carolina, New Orleans, Tampa Bay

NFC West--Arizona, St. Louis, San Francisco, Seattle

No matter what happens, no team is going to get exactly what it wants (except Dallas). In the 1970 AFL-NFL merger, Pittsburgh, Cleveland [the present-day Baltimore Ravens], and Baltimore [the present-day Indianapolis Colts] all had to be coaxed to switch into the AFC. Once that was taken care of, the NFC alignment was determined by picking one plan at random out of five possibilities.

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