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The NFL initiated discussions for a merger between the two leagues through a backchannel: Tex Schramm, the general manager of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys since 1960, secretly contacted AFL owners, led by Lamar Hunt of Kansas City, and asked if they were interested in a merger. [4]
After the AFL–NFL merger agreement in 1966, and after the AFL's Jets defeated an extremely strong Baltimore Colts team, a popular misconception fostered by the NFL and spread by media reports was that the AFL defeated the NFL because of the common draft instituted in 1967. This apparently was meant to assert that the AFL could not achieve ...
The NFL considers these continuous franchises that relocated to different metropolitan areas. The list also includes franchises from the 1960s American Football League that moved during that league's existence. The NFL and AFL agreed to merge in 1966, with the merger taking effect in 1970. All AFL franchises were accepted into the NFL, and the ...
The 1920 Akron Pros were named the first APFA (NFL) champions. The National Football League champions, prior to the merger between the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) in 1970, were determined by two different systems. The National Football League was established on September 17, 1920, as the American Professional Football Association (APFA). The APFA changed ...
Nineteen of the team's 27 playoff appearances since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger have come during Lurie's ownership tenure, including four NFC championships and the franchise's lone Super Bowl win.
The 1970s: AFL–NFL merger. 1970. AFL and NFL merge. AFL Eastern and Western Divisions became AFC East and AFC West, respectively. AFC Central formed;
Rookies don't usually make the NFL look easy, especially at quarterback. ... and that was the most by any player since the 1970 AFL/NFL merger, according to ESPN. Then he led a game-winning drive ...
That 1971 game was something of a novelty — the first AFC championship after the AFL-NFL merger. The Super Bowl was still a fairly new phenomenon. Baltimore had made it two seasons earlier but ...