the wiki article afl nfl merger contains this passage afl indemnities would be paid to nfl teams which shared markets with afl teams specifically the new york giants would receive payments from the new york jets and the san francisco ers would get money from the oakland raiders the shared markets issue was part of earlier informal merger talks held as early as talks the afl rejected when the nfl wanted the jets and raiders relocated to memphis and portland respectively or in plain language wrong again schmuckola