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The American Football League (AFL) was a major professional American football league that operated for ten seasons from 1960 until 1970, when it merged with the older National Football League (NFL), and became the American Football Conference. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence.
Ohio Independent Championship (Ohio League), 1903–1919 [20] Interprovincial Rugby Football Union, 1907–1959 [21] New York Pro Football League, c. 1913–1920 [22] American Football League, 1926, 1936–1937, and 1940–1941 (all unrelated, three separate leagues) California Winter League, [23] 1927–1928.
The American Football League, also known retrospectively as the AFL III to distinguish it from earlier organizations of that name, [1] was a professional American football league that operated from 1940 to 1941. It was created when three teams, the original Cincinnati Bengals, the Columbus Bullies, and the Milwaukee Chiefs, were lured away from ...
The American Football League (AFL) was a professional American football league that operated in 1936 and 1937. The AFL operated in direct competition with the more established National Football League (NFL) throughout its existence. [1] While the American media generally ignored its operation (often relegating game coverage to "page filler ...
AFL teams: West, East. The 1960 AFL season was the inaugural regular season of the American Football League. It consisted of 8 franchises split into two divisions: the East Division (Buffalo Bills, Houston Oilers, Titans of New York, Boston Patriots) and the West Division (Los Angeles Chargers, Denver Broncos, Dallas Texans, Oakland Raiders).
Category:American Football League. This category comprises articles related to the American Football League that played from 1960 to 1969, then merged into the National Football League in 1970. NOTE: Due to technical restrictions, the Tennessee Titans are listed in this category, even though not they but their predecessors, the Houston Oilers ...
Invitational sport at 2005, 2017, and 2022 (flag football) Games. American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, [nb 1] is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with possession of the oval ...
American Football League playoffs. For its first nine seasons, 1960 through 1968, the American Football League determined its champion via a single playoff game between the winners of its two divisions (although ties in the standings in 1963 (Eastern) and 1968 (Western) necessitated a tiebreaker divisional playoff game the week before).