Fans here noted that the team has won more games in this decade than any other professional football franchise.

This was the typical start for several early professional football franchises.

Angelos was pursuing a professional football franchise before he thought of getting involved in baseball.

When Queens couldn't secure a football franchise, the plan died.

In 1962, they became the final professional American football franchise to integrate.

He was a front man for a professional football franchise that had become too much about one man.

The city of Memphis would go on to host several more professional football franchises.

Now a soccer team is worth more, and a shell of a small-market football franchise almost as much?

San Diego is not alone, of course, in fighting over whether to spend taxpayer money to keep a football (or baseball) franchise.

There are 32 professional football franchises in the eight divisions of two conferences.