Yeah, I screwed that up.
Don’t know what I was thinking, must have had a brain spasm about then.
When he was negotiating with the NFL Davis was holding out for something, can’t remember what it was, but he was plenty PO’ed when Hunt and Adams contacted the NFL on their own.
It may have been something for the players.
I saw a show about the merger maybe 15 years ago and did some research and confirmed what was on the show, but I now have no idea what it was.
The irony is that before the merger, the NFL had four divisions of four teams each. Now each conference has four divisions of four teams each. Until the Chargers moved, you had three of teh eight divisions that were historic pre-merger alignments:
Dallas, New York, Philadelphia, Washington
Chicago, Detroit, Green Bay, Minnesota
Denver, kansas City, Oakland, San Diego.
The Chargers move to LA and now the Raiders move to Vegas kind of screwed that up.
When the NBA and ABA merged, only four ABA teams — the New York (later New Jersey, now Brooklyn) Nets, the Indiana Pacers, the San Antonio Spurs, and the Denver Nuggets — got to join the NBA — much to the consternation of the Carolina Cougars and especially the Kentucky Colonels, who thought they ought to be included. (The Colonels, at least, were right.)
Several ABA owners got screwed.