The league expanded the regular season by one game from eleven games per team to twelve, a number that remained constant until the 1961 season.
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It was first used to describe the offensive attack of the then-Chicago Cardinals in 1947 after an unprecedented amount of money by Cardinals owner Charles Bidwill lured several of the day's top players to the team.