However, these negotiations came to nothing, since the Bidwills insisted on retaining a controlling interest in the franchise and were unwilling move their team to a city where a previous NFL franchise had failed in 1952.

However, many major league baseball and NFL teams in the United States also promote 24 ounce cans marked with team logos.

However, the NFL considers the Texans and Colts to be separate teams, although many of those teams shared the same colors of blue and white.

However, under head coach Weeb Ewbank and the leadership of quarterback Johnny Unitas, the Colts would go onto a 9 – 3 record during the 1958 season and reached the NFL Championship Game for the first time in their history by winning the NFL Western Conference.

However, in 1968 the Colts returned with the continued leadership of Unitas and Shula and went onto win the Colts ' third NFL Championship and made an appearance in Super Bowl III.

However, the NFL officially recognizes his achievements and records as the history of the Colts organization and as such are attributed to the current Colts organization and not the Baltimore Ravens organization.

However, Manning did pass for 3, 739 yards and threw 26 touchdown passes while also being named to the NFL All-Rookie First Team.

However, in a surprising move, the NFL owners voted 26-2 in favor of awarding the 30th franchise to Jacksonville.

However on July 26, 2012 Jonathan Vilma and seven witnesses from the Saints testified in front of a federal judge in New Orleans that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell got his facts wrong in the bounty scandal.

However, instead of attempting to return the ball, Renfro let it bounce inside his own 1-yard line where it was downed by center Tom Goode ( NFL rules prior to 1974 allowed a field goal that fall short of the goal posts to be downed just like a punt ).

However, the NFL pulled the game away from Arizona after the league joined a massive, nationwide tourist boycott by various groups to protest the state ’ s refusal to recognize Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

However, the NFL, in part because Fox had not yet established itself as a major network, renewed its contract with ABC.

However, there were franchises in several cities without NFL teams which would later receive them, such as Jacksonville, Florida.

However, the AAFC was ultimately unable to sustain itself in competition with the NFL.

However, the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in American Needle Inc. v. NFL established the NFL as a " cartel " of 32 independent businesses subject to antitrust law, not a single entity.

However, with the spread offense spreading to the NFL, the shotgun is used more since the spread allows for more effective running.

However, in the NFL and CFL, if a ball carrier falls without an opponent contacting him, the ground can indeed cause a fumble.

However, the stadium was one of the smaller facilities in the NFL, never seating more than 60, 000.

However, it was considered inadequate for the times, and the other NFL owners had threatened to force the franchise to move to Milwaukee unless it got a new stadium.

However, he became a replacement player during the 1987 NFL players ' strike, and played two games for the Rams.

However, the stadium plans had stalled by the fall of 1998, and thus the NFL reopened the bidding for the game.

However, the Buccaneers ' defense was still the strength of the team, leading the NFL in total defense ( 252. 8 yards per game ), pass defense ( 155. 6 yards per game ), points allowed ( 12. 3 points per game ), passing touchdowns allowed ( 10 ), interceptions ( 31 ), and opponent passer rating ( 48. 4 ).

However in August 1924, Deutsch, bought the defending NFL champions Canton Bulldogs for $ 2, 500.

However, the expulsion of the UK's High Commissioner in April may change this relationship.

However, to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, Commissioner ( then club owner ) Bud Selig decided another team should have the first chance to switch leagues.

However, since the mid-1980s, as part of a joint effort between the cruise ship industry that serves Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican politicians such as then Resident Commissioner, U. S. non-voting Representative Baltasar Corrada del Río, obtained a limited-exception since no U. S. cruise ships that were Jones Act-eligible were participating in said market.

However, that office was itself cast into some doubt when the first Integrity Commissioner, Christiane Ouimet, was heavily criticized in the auditor general's report in December 2010.

However, three days after Giamatti became Commissioner, lawyer John M. Dowd was retained to investigate these charges against Rose.

However, Commissioner Irvin failed to abide by the terms of the law, and instead continued to license gas chambers.

However, because the Big East Conference requires 27 months of notice prior to withdrawal, Big East Commissioner John Marinatto said that West Virginia may not leave before July 1, 2014.

However, the position of governor was given then to incumbent Resident Commissioner Aníbal Acevedo Vilá who won by razor-thin margin in a highly controversial PR Supreme Court decision that many still hold was politically motivated.

However, George did not aspire to any political office since his difficult tenure as High Commissioner of Crete between 1901 and 1905 ; above all, he sought to remain loyal to his brother, and categorically refused to take the throne.

" However, the European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, denied these allegations and stated that the Moldovan language is referred to in the 1998 Cooperation Agreement between the EU and Moldova and hence it is considered a part of the acquis, binding to all member states.

However, in March 1931, Ramsay MacDonald asked Trenchard to take the post of Metropolitan Police Commissioner, which after initially declining, Trenchard eventually accepted in October 1931.

However, MLS Commissioner Don Garber said that the Earthquakes ' name, colors, logo, wordmark, history and competitive records would not be transferred, similarly to the Cleveland Browns deal in the National Football League.

However, the Court held that it was not bound by the legal characterisation of facts made in the context of the criminal proceedings and that it was for the Court, exercising its discretion to the full, to investigate whether the conduct complained of in proceedings brought under Article 213 ( 2 ) EC constituted a breach of the obligations arising from the office of Commissioner.

However, dissension within the board during the 1950s saw it suspended while Commissioner Richard Rushton oversaw the town's affairs.

However, as late as 2000, Alabama Prison Commissioner Ron Jones has again proposed reintroducing the chain gang.

However, the state's Integrated Design Commissioner, Tim Horton, said in 2011: " Its targets are really great, but I don't think any of us have signed on to why those targets exist or what we can do to further them.

However, he rose to a position of leadership, serving as the Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Newark from 1917 to 1930.

However, disenchantment began when the Land Commissioner, William Spain, awarded the New Plymouth settlers 200 km² of tribal land around New Plymouth.

However, during his tenure as Commissioner, Walton ran in the Democratic primary for Governor in 1934 to replace William H. Murray and again in 1938 to replace Ernest W. Marland.

However Viviane Reding, the European Commissioner for Justice, Freedom & Security, wrote to the director of the FRA slamming the idea on cost and dignity grounds and instructing him to cancel the project.

However, his career was short lived and Mirza left the army to join the Indian Political Service in 1926, being posted as the Assistant Commissioner of the North West Frontier Province.

( However, the experience did not stop Anslinger, while acting as the Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, from authorizing a druggist near the White House to fill a morphine prescription for an addicted Senator Joseph McCarthy.

However, in July 1912 he lost a vote of no confidence and was appointed High Commissioner in London.

However, a day after the speculation reached a climax on August 26, both NHLPA Interim Director Mike Ouellet and Deputy Commissioner and chief legal officer of the NHL Bill Daly disputed the claims that it is all hearsay, and nothing is concrete between the NHLPA and Donald Fehr.