American Football League - Fictional History

It was nearly a perfect winter day for a football game, but Metropolitan Stadium surprisingly did not host a sell-out crowd despite hosting the 2nd-largest ever crowd at the stadium at nearly 65,000 fans. A combination of weather woes and a major newspaper strike in New York City prevented potential fans from coming to the game. But around 15,000 Knights fans from Detroit made the voyage eastward, and their presence gave the appearance of an even split in the crowd despite more being in favor of the Lions. Most New Yorkers that were unable to get tickets for this game were unable to watch the game due to the AFL’s blackout policy, and many traveled out of state to Connecticut and New Jersey to tune in. The Lions donned their white uniforms once again for good luck to win their first title game. Unlike last game New York played, Detroit was prepared for them wearing their whites and wore their red jerseys on the road to see which team will win their first AFL title. Q1 The Knights would...

East Division Final: Philadelphia Rattlesnakes @ New York Lions For the first time in their history, the New York Lions got to host a postseason game at Metropolitan Stadium. They welcomed their expansion brother in Philadelphia, who was coming off of their first playoff win against Washington. The Lions were attempting to replicate their postseason success from last year, and that included making the rare change to wear their white uniforms at home. They had worn them for every game of last year’s run, and made it clear to both the league office and Philadelphia that they would be wearing white uniforms at home. The Rattlesnakes did not believe the Lions would actually wear their away uniforms, but were proved wrong at the odd sight of both teams coming out of the locker rooms wearing white. Philadelphia tried to protest the change, but since it was made well in advance the game had to be delayed while the Rattlesnakes changed into their gold uniforms without letting the issue bother ...