In this post I am going to talk about why American football teams are located where they are and why from time to time they move. Firstly to start off: unlike most sports teams, American football teams are called franchises which are generally owned by one person. However the league holds all the authority over these teams so they are very concerned about the profit that these teams make. The founding members of the National Football League (NFL) where the Decatur Staleys (now the Chicago Bears) and the Chicago Cardinals (now the Arizona Cardinals) .The Green Bay Packers were founded in 1919 and joined the NFL in 1921. The Packers are the oldest team in the league to be playing in the same location. As you can see from the picture the teams stretch across the country from Washington all the way down to Florida and New Hampshire.