Okay, so the other day I was messing around, trying to come up with a fun little project, and I had this idea to make a wheel of NFL teams. You know, like a wheel of fortune, but with football teams. I figured it would be a cool way to randomly pick a team for, like, fantasy football or just to decide who to root for if my team wasn’t playing.
First, I grabbed a list of all 32 NFL teams. I could have typed them all out, but who’s got time for that? I just found a list online – there’s tons of them. Easy peasy.
Then I started thinking about how I wanted this thing to look. I decided to make it colorful, with each team’s logo on their segment of the wheel. But I realized I didn’t have all the logos on my computer. So, I had to go on a little scavenger hunt online and download each team’s logo. That took a bit longer than I expected, but I got them all eventually.
- Dallas Cowboys
- Pittsburgh Steelers
- Houston Texans
- New England Patriots
- …and 28 more!
After that, I needed a way to actually make the wheel spin. I’m not a coding whiz or anything, so I searched for some simple HTML and JavaScript code snippets online that could do the trick. I found a few different examples and started playing around with them, trying to adapt them for my NFL wheel.
It was a bit of trial and error, I won’t lie. I messed up a few times, and the wheel wasn’t spinning right or the colors were all wonky. But I kept at it, and after a while, I finally got it working the way I wanted. You spin it, and it randomly lands on an NFL team. Each team selected, I made it to be subsequently listed on the Results for reference, and the team’s logo pops up big and bold. Pretty cool, right?
It’s nothing fancy, but I was pretty happy with how it turned out. It’s a fun little tool, and I’ve already used it a few times to decide which game to watch. Maybe I’ll add some more features later on, like sound effects or something. We’ll see!
Oh, and the other thing is that I found out that three-quarters of the owners of the NFL’s 32 clubs, i.e. 24 or more clubs, have to agree to let a new team be created or an existing team move to a new market. The NFL has had a total of 49 franchises become defunct over its history.
Anyway, that’s the story of my little NFL team wheel project. Hope you found it at least a little bit interesting!
