However, Wismer's biggest challenge was that unlike the majority of AFL franchises his team was in direct competition with an established NFL team. Since 1956 the NFL football Giants had been playing across the Harlem River in prestigious Yankee Stadium in The Bronx; they had moved out of the Polo Grounds after the 1955 season, and the New York media for the most part was derisive and dismissive of the Titans, when it deigned to mention them at all. For most New York sports reporters of the era, professional football in New York City began and ended with the Giants. Wismer's volatile personality was of little help in terms of earning any sort of goodwill from either his then-current or former colleagues; he resented not only other media figures but also Dallas Texans owner Lamar Hunt, whom Wismer saw as a rich boy whose father had bought him a football team as a toy. Wismer also had an ongoing feud with AFL commissioner Joe Foss, and had at times a far-less-than-warm relationship with the Titans' first head coach, hall of fame quarterback Sammy Baugh. (Baugh had been the losing tailback in the 73-0 debacle back in 1940 that had marked Wismer's debut with the Redskins as noted above.)