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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.
The American Football Conference was formed in July 1959 with the assistance of National Football League commissioner Bert Bell. [1] It was an association of American football clubs that operated from 1959 to 1961 that were mostly based in Ohio, but had some teams from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Michigan, and Canada.
The 1960 American Football League draft was held on November 22–23, 1959, in Minneapolis, [1] [2] shortly after the organization of the league, and lasted 33 rounds. [3] An additional draft of 20 rounds was held by the AFL on December 2.
The American Football League draft, the American Football League (AFL, 1960–1969) ... The draft for the 1960 season was actually conducted in late 1959, shortly ...
Rebuffed in his attempts to gain at least part-ownership in an NFL team, Hunt conceived the idea of a rival professional football league, the American Football League. [10] [11] In September 1959, Hunt was approached by the NFL about an expansion team in Dallas, but by then Hunt was interested only in the AFL. [12]
American Football League, 1926, 1936–1937, and 1940–1941 (all unrelated, three separate leagues) ... American Football Conference, 1959–1961;
August 14 – The American Football League is founded. Play would begin the following year. ... 1958–59 Northern Rugby Football League season/1959–60 Northern ...
The Foolish Club were the owners of the eight original franchises of the American Football League (AFL). When Texas oil magnates Lamar Hunt and Bud Adams Jr. were refused entry to the established National Football League (NFL) in 1959, they founded franchises in Dallas and Houston, and recruited businessmen in six other U.S. markets to form an eight-team rival circuit, calling it the American ...