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The AFL–NFL merger was the merger of the two major professional American football leagues in the United States at ... AFL and NFL teams at the time of the 1970 ...
The 1970 NFL season was the 51st regular season of the National Football League, and the first after the consummation of the AFL–NFL merger.The merged league realigned into two conferences: all ten of the American Football League (AFL) teams joined the Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns, and Pittsburgh Steelers to form the American Football Conference (AFC); the other thirteen NFL clubs ...
When the two leagues merged in 1970, all ten AFL franchises and their statistics became part of the new NFL. Every other professional league that had competed against the NFL before the AFL–NFL merger had folded completely: the three previous leagues named "American Football League" and the All-America Football Conference (AAFC).
As per the terms of the merger, three "old guard" NFL teams (the Colts, Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers) agreed to join the ten AFL teams to form the American Football Conference. The other thirteen teams that contested the 1969 NFL season formed the National Football Conference .
Upon the completion of the merger of the AFL and NFL in 1970, the newly minted American Football Conference had already agreed upon their divisional setup along mostly geographical lines for the 1970 season; the National Football Conference, however, could not agree upon their setup, and one was chosen from a fishbowl on January 16, 1970.
That 1971 game was something of a novelty — the first AFC championship after the AFL-NFL merger. ... The Orioles won the World Series in 1966 and 1970. After the Colts won it all in early 1971 ...
Toggle The 1970s: AFL–NFL merger subsection. 7.1 1970. 7.2 1971–1975. 7.3 1976. 7.4 1977–1981. 8 The 1980s and 1990s: Relocation and expansion.
For years, the NFL season simply did not run long enough to reach the holiday. Until the AFL-NFL merger in 1970, the regular season ended in mid-December with the championship game two weeks later ...