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unusual facts about American Football League


Johnny Hero

Several sports team uniforms were made available, including the Washington Redskins and other NFL or AFL teams.


1965 Oakland Raiders season

The season would be Al Davis' last as head coach, as he would be named Commissioner of the AFL in April 1966.

2005 Kansas City Chiefs season

Hunt was recognized for his contributions to the City of Dallas, and his establishment of the American Football League’s Dallas Texans (now the Kansas City Chiefs), one of the Cowboys’ AFL rivals.

African-American Civil Rights Movement in Omaha, Nebraska

In 1968 Marlin Briscoe, a football star and graduate of a local high school, became the first black quarterback in the American Football League, and in 1970 local barber and law school graduate Ernie Chambers was elected to the Nebraska State Legislature as the newest African American state legislator, preceded by other African Americans Edward Danner, John Adams Sr. and his son John Adams Jr.

Andy Robustelli

After his retirement as an active player, Robustelli spent one year (1965) as a color analyst for NBC's coverage of the American Football League.

Art Hauser

Arthur A. "Art" Hauser (born June 19, 1929 in Rubicon, Wisconsin) is a former professional American football defensive lineman in the National Football League and the American Football League.

Dave Noble

After his college years, Noble played three seasons in the National Football League (NFL) and one in the American Football League (AFL), and was voted to the NFL All-Pro team in 1925.

Ed Budde

A product of Denby High School in Detroit, Michigan, and later Michigan State University, Ed Budde was chosen as the number one draft pick of the American Football League's Kansas City Chiefs (then the Dallas Texans) in 1963.

Edward Abramoski

Edward "Abe" Abramoski (born Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1933) is an American Athletic Trainer, known for serving as the head Head Athletic Trainer for the Buffalo Bills in the American Football League and the NFL for a total of 37 years.

Essex Johnson

In his rookie year of 1968, the Bengals' first season in the American Football League, he played in all 14 games, primarily as a backup to running backs Paul Robinson and Jess Phillips.

Lee Bernet

An offensive tackle, he played college football at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and played professionally for the American Football League's Denver Broncos in 1965 and 1966.

Lee Grosscup

His spent one season calling AFL games for NBC before beginning a twenty-year stint as a college football analyst for ABC.

Miami Seahawks

Ralph Wilson briefly considered putting his American Football League (AFL) franchise in Miami, but city officials turned him down.

Mike Hudock

Although his early professional years were plagued by knee injuries, Hudock became an integral part of another team's rise to prominence in 1960 when he joined the New York Titans for the first American Football League season.

Mike Stratton

David Michael Stratton (born April 10, 1941 in Vonore, Tennessee) was an American football linebacker in the AFL and NFL for the Buffalo Bills and San Diego Chargers.

Montana State Bobcats football

He was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the third round of the AFL's 1966 draft and scored 11 points, including a then-Super Bowl record 48-yard field goal, in Kansas City's 23-7 Super Bowl IV win.

Nebraska–Omaha Mavericks

Marlin Briscoe, first black starting quarterback in modern American professional football (the American Football League), attended and played for UNO from 1964-1967.

Original Six

By 1963, when Rangers governor William M. Jennings first introduced to his peers the idea of expanding the NHL, other major sports leagues were growing: Major League Baseball and the National Football League were adding teams, while the American Football League was becoming an attractive alternative to the NFL.

Professional sports in the Western United States

San Diego Chargers: AFL, 1961–1969 (as Los Angeles Chargers 1960); NFL, 1970–present

Super Ball

After watching his children play with a Super Ball, Lamar Hunt, founder of the American Football League, coined the term Super Bowl.

The American Sportsman

From 1965 to 1967, the program was hosted by former South Dakota Republican Governor, American Football League commissioner, and World War II hero Joe Foss; it was later hosted by Grits Gresham, an outdoorsman from Natchitoches, Louisiana, and long-time sports announcer Curt Gowdy.

Tom Goode

He spent his first eight campaigns in the American Football League (AFL) with the Houston Oilers (19621965) and Miami Dolphins (19661969).

Wally Lemm

During the first season of play, the Oilers captured the league's first-ever title, but Lemm resigned after the season, returning to Libertyville, Illinois to work in the sporting goods industry.


see also

AFW

American Football Wellington, an American football league in Wellington, New Zealand

Bill Edwards

Big Bill Edwards (1877–1943), American football player, guard for Princeton University football team, first president of first American Football League

Bill Mathis

One of four Titans who remained with the New York Jets to play in and win a World Championship game, Mathis led the American Football League in carries in 1961 and was selected by his peers to the Sporting News 1961 AFL All-League team.

Chuck Hurston

After winning the American Football League Championship with the Chiefs in 1966, he started for them in the first AFL-NFL World Championship Game.

Ed Budde

At the heart of the Chiefs’ offensive line with Jim Tyrer at left offensive tackle, his overpowering presence helped the Chiefs win two American Football League Championships (1966 and 1969) and a world championship in Super Bowl IV after defeating the NFL's Minnesota Vikings 23-7, with Budde able to handle the opposing right defensive tackle, Hall-of-Famer, Alan Page.

Gene Mingo

That touchdown won the first-ever American Football League game, as the Broncos defeated the Boston Patriots.

Huntsville Rockets

The North American Football League, was organized in Fairfax, Virginia, in 1964.

Ron Berger

Berger began his career with a semi-pro team in Pontiac, Michigan, in 1965 with the St. Petersburg Blazers of the North American Football League.