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Also I find that searching the local doc will find better references that doing the search on the doc's web site.

Actually it all comes with reading the API doc when a method doesn't do what you expect.

You missed copeg's post. The replace method RETURNs a modified String.

What does the printlln show for the value of nflTeam?
Can you make a small complete program that compiles and executes to demonstrate what is happening?

Can you explain: "treating it so"?

Better question is: What is that character in ASCII terms?
Find a table of ASCII code values and look it up. The largest ASCII char you can type from a keyboard has a value of 7E: (~)
I don't...

To see what char is there, use the String charAt() method and then the Integer.toHexString() method to display the char in hex.