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Nance signed with the Patriots. Though his rookie season was unimpressive, he led the AFL in rushing the next two seasons. He went on to become the only AFL player ever to rush for more than 1,400 yards in a season. At 6-1 and 260 pounds, Nance was a powerful fullback who carried 299 times in 1966, for 11 touchdowns and 1,458 yards.
Garrett won a World Championship ring with the Chiefs in Super Bowl IV, the last AFL–NFL World Championship Game before the AFL–NFL merger, when the AFL's Chiefs beat the NFL's Vikings, 23–7. Garrett was the top rusher of Super Bowl IV with 11 carries for 39 yards and a touchdown, also catching two passes for 25 yards and returning a ...
The AFL now had nine teams, grouped into two divisions (the new Miami team was in the Eastern Division, now with five teams), and still played a 14-game schedule. In previous seasons (with eight clubs), each played a home-and-away game against the other seven. All nine teams faced each other at least once, and each team played six others twice.
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 ...
1966 AFL Championship Game. At War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo, ... He finished with a career-best 83 receiving yards and a touchdown to go along with 58 rushing yards. Cook rushed for 79 yards ...
The 1966 American Football League All-League Team was selected after the 1966 American Football League season by AFL players, [1] the Associated Press (AP), [2] the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), [3] the New York Daily News (NYDN), and United Press International (UPI) [4] to honor the league's top performers at each position.
He was an AFL All-Star in 1963 and a member of the AFL champions in 1962 and 1966. Corey then served as head coach of the Omaha Mustangs , a defensive coach at the collegiate level for the University of Miami and Utah State University , for the Chiefs, Cleveland Browns , Buffalo Bills , and New Orleans Saints of the NFL, as well as the Memphis ...
Lowe was the AFL leader or runner-up in rushing touchdowns four times. [32] He is also one of only twenty players who were in the AFL for its entire ten-year existence. [14] In 1970, the Pro Football Hall of Fame named Lowe as a running back on the All-Time All-AFL Team. In 1979, the Chargers inducted him into the Chargers Hall of Fame. [30]