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Prior to the advent of the Super Bowl for the 1966 season, the AFL went to great lengths to avoid scheduling its playoffs head-to-head with the NFL. In 1960, the NFL's game was held on Monday, December 26; the AFL had that week off, and played its title contest on Sunday, January 1, as the college bowl games were played on Monday. In 1961 and ...
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 following is a detailed list of results and scores from National Football League (NFL) games aired on Thursday Night Football.Starting with the 2006 NFL season, NFL Network was awarded the rights to air Thursday night games regularly (with some extra broadcasts on Saturday nights under the NFL Network Exclusive Game Series branding).
The victories and losses are the second most in NFL history. 5-0: Chiefs’ record in Divisional Round games with Mahomes as their starter. 2-0: Chiefs’ record when winning the turnover battle.
Total Football II: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League. HarperCollins Publishers. p. 388. ISBN 9780062701749 – via Internet Archive. "AP AFL Player of the Year Winners". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Sports Reference "UPI AFL Player of the Year Winners". Pro-Football-Reference.com.
The last AFL game on ABC television was the All-Star Game on January 16, 1965; rights were sold in January 1964 to NBC for $36 million over five years, beginning with the 1965 season. [2] [3] This infusion of cash helped spur a bidding war for talent with the NFL, which led to the AFL–NFL merger agreement in June 1966.
Fresh off having the most-streamed NFL games in U.S. history on Christmas Day, the NFL capped off another regular season of "Thursday Night Football" on Amazon Prime. Losers Bears
Here are the rest of the winners and losers from Week 6 of the NFL season: WINNERS. ... Atlanta hasn't played great football yet. But due to some nearly miraculous wins, the Falcons are 4-2 ...