User:Hey man im josh/sandbox

Not even counting news stories, which would demonstrate an overwhelming and unquestionable common usage of team / franchise over "clubs", here's a list of static pages that a number of common sites use:

• NFL
  • Record book – All records/section titles in the index are listed "by franchise", as opposed to by club
  • NFL Operations, – "Team Histories" page under "Learn the game", uses franchises and teams, specifically stating the NFL is made up of 32 franchises
  • Teams list – Teams is used in the header at NFL.com, and this is also the first result when googling "NFL clubs", yet there is no mention of "club" on this page
  • Team schedules

• Pro Football Hall of Fame
  • Teams page
  • Search for "club" – Related to stats, not finding mentions for teams specifically
  • Search for franchise – Turns up tons ~900 entries related to NFL franchises

• Pro Football Reference
  • Teams page – Uses "Franchises"
  • Arizona Cardinals – Example of how individual team pages use "franchise"
  • Tom Brady stat page – Column for team, not "club"

• ESPN
  • List of teams
  • Depth charts for "teams"
  • Tom Brady stat page – Column for team, not "club"

• Yahoo Sports
  • NFL teams
  • Tom Brady stat page – Column for team, not "club"

• CBS Sports
  • NFL teams
  • Tom Brady stat page – Column for team, not "club"

• USA Today
  • NFL teams
  • Tom Brady stat page – Column for team, not "club"

• Encyclopædia Britannica
  • National Football League – Strictly uses team or franchise

• NBC Sports
  • Landing page – Team in drop down menu
  • Tom Brady stat page – Column for team, not "club"

• Football Database
  • Teams index
  • Tom Brady stat page – Column for team, not "club"

• Fox Sports
  • Teams list

While I expect it to change now that I've pointed it out, the 8 relevant search terms for NFL clubs on Wikipedia haven't even been created: National Football League club, National Football League clubs, National Football League Club, National Football League Clubs, NFL Clubs, NFL clubs, NFL Club, NFL club

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Misc;

• • NFL: "The most valuable NFL franchises according to Forbes"

• Forbes
  • "NFL's Most Valuable Teams" –
    • Uses "franchise" 5 times in the article to discuss the team
    • Team is used to refer to the franchise 33 times
    • Uses the word "clubs" once