<P> Forgotten in the collective sports memory that the league's official record books listed the 1920 championship as undecided until the 2013 . The whereabouts of the Brunswick - Balke - Collender Cup, only given out that one time, are unknown . The legacy of two APFA franchises continues on, however . The Racine Cardinals now play in Arizona, and the Decatur Staleys moved to Chicago in 1921 and changed their name to the Bears the following year . Ten APFA players along with Carr are enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which opened its doors in 1963 not far from the Canton automobile dealership that gave birth to the NFL in 1920 . </P> <P> The APFA, by 1922 known as the National Football League, has remained the predominant professional football league in the United States, and, effectively, the entire world . The evolution from a haphazard collection of teams in big and small cities to the much more rigid structure it is in the present was gradual; the smaller markets were squeezed out in the late 1920s and early 1930s, a championship game was established in 1933, a draft was established in 1936, and schedules were standardized in the 1930s . A competing league has historically arisen to attempt to challenge the NFL's dominance every 10 to 15 years, but none managed to maintain long - term operations independent of the NFL and only two--the All - America Football Conference of the late 1940s and the American Football League of the 1960s--were strong enough to successfully compete against the league before the NFL subsumed their operations . Minor league football, although their leagues' memberships were unstable, began to arise in the late 1930s and remained viable as a business model up into the 1970s . </P> <P> A major factor in the NFL's rise to dominance was its embrace of television early in the sport's history . As college football heavily restricted the rights of its teams to broadcast games (a policy eventually ruled to be illegal in 1984), the NFL instead allowed games to be televised nationwide, except in a team's home city; the restriction was softened in the early 1970s, by which point the NFL had secured broadcast deals with all of the major television networks, another major factor in the inability of any competing league to gain traction since then . </P> <P> The related sport of Canadian football was eventually professionalized by the 1950s, which saw the evolution of the Canadian Football League . The CFL, despite losing all games in a series of contests against the NFL, was considered to be at least comparable in talent to the American leagues of the 1960s (its lone game against an AFL squad was a victory). Because Canada has a tenth of the population of the United States, the ability to make money from television was much lower, and although some of the cities of Canada were comparable to the major markets of the U.S., teams in places such as Saskatchewan and Hamilton were in markets quite small compared to even the small markets of the NFL, thus the CFL now pays noticeably less than other major professional leagues, but still more than enough to be considered fully professional . </P>

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