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  American Football League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The American Football League (AFL) was a professional league of American football that operated from 1960 to 1969.
Of all the leagues that have attempted to challenge the dominance of the National Football League, the AFL was the only one to be truly successful.
The American Football League took advantage of the burgeoning popularity of football by locating teams in major cities that lacked NFL franchises, and by using the growing power of televised football games (bolstered with the help of major network contracts, first with ABC and later with NBC).
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 National Football League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The league was formed in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, which adopted the name "National Football League" in 1922.
The next year 1969, another American Football League team, the Buffalo Bills were the first professional football team of the modern era to begin the season with a fl, James Harris as their starting quarterback.
The Guarantee (January 12, 1969, American Football League Jets vs. NFL Colts in Super Bowl III) The 17-point favorite Colts, are beaten 16-7 by Joe Namath,, Randy Beverly and the New York Jets.
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 National Football League Information - TextSheet.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The NFL is the largest and most popular professional American football league in the world.
At the end of each season, the winners of the playoffs in the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference meet in the NFL championsip, the Super Bowl.
Marshall's racist policies not only excluded fls from his Washington Redskins team but influenced the entire league to drop fls until 1946, when pressure from the competing All-America Football Conference induced the NFL to be more liberal in its signing of fls.
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The National Football League (NFL) is the largest and most popular professional American football league in the world, consisting of thirty-two teams from American cities.
The league's current makeup and geographic expanse, as well as its style of play, rules, media coverage, playoffs and championship games, were enhanced by its merger with a rival league, the American Football League, effective with the 1970 season.
The style of pro football broadcasting is ever changing, with its female hostesses/sideline reporters, visual first-down markers, advanced graphics, and new multi-camera angles, all of which will carry football telecasts into the new century.
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 Encyclopedia: American-Football-League-Draft   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The draft for the 1960 season was actually conducted in late 1959, shortly after the formation of the league.
During the years in which the American Football League was in direct competition with the NFL for players (and fans), numerous star players chose to play in the AFL.
The first and one of the most prominent of these was LSU All-American Billy Cannon, who went on to become an AFL All-Star both as a running back with the Houston Oilers and as a tight end with the Oakland Raiders.
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 American Football League - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The American Football League, or AFL, was the brainchild of founder Lamar Hunt.
The AFL was a professional league of American football which operated from 1960 to 1969.
(There were three earlier, unrelated, and unsuccessful football leagues with the name of "American Football League", one in 1926, one in 1936-1937, and one in 1940-1941.) Of all the leagues that have attempted to challenge the dominance of the NFL, it was the only one to be truly successful.
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 Chuck Bednarik - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Chuck Bednarik (born May 1, 1925 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) is a former professional football player, best remembered as one of the most devastating tacklers in the history of football.
He played for the Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL from the late 1940s to the early 1960s and, upon retirement, was voted entry into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Bednarik was the first player drafted in the 1949 National Football League draft, chosen by the Philadelphia Eagles.
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 American Football League biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The American Football League was a professional league of American football which operated from 1960 to 1969.
Of all the leagues that have attempted to challenge the dominance of the NFL, it was the only one to be truly successful.
Further, the league championships were evenly divided: five were won by Western Division teams, five by the Eastern Division; and of the original eight teams, all but two won at least one AFL title, and only one did not make the playoffs at some time during the league's ten-year existence.
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 LA Chargers SD Chargers
Drafted by the Los Angeles Chargers in 1961, 6-foot-5, 260-pound Earl Faison blew by opposing offensive lineman on his way to smashing American Football League quarterbacks.
He returned his first touch of the football in the American Football League for a 105 yard touchdown in the Chargers first-ever exhibition game, and had the Chargers' longest run from scrimmage with an 87-yard run in 1961.
They learned, and the American Football League became the genesis of modern professional football."Sid Gillman brought class to the AFL," Oakland Raiders managing general partner Al Davis once said of the man he served under on that first Chargers team.
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 National Football League biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The NFL's current makeup and geographic expanse, as well as its style of play, rules, media coverage, playoffs and championship games, were enhanced by its merger with the American Football League, effective with the 1970 season.
Although the NFL in 2004 is dominated at virtually every position by African-American athletes, that was not always the case.
The American Football League's Denver Broncos were the first modern team to have a fl quarterback, Marlin Briscoe, in 1968; and the American Football League's Buffalo Bills were the first to have a fl starting quarterback, James Harris, in 1969.
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 Texans and Chiefs
Because of his heart and perseverance, he was the driving force behind one of the greatest teams in the history of the American Football League.
Over his career he was regularly among the American Football League's top ten rushers, ranking third all-time, and the all-time leader in touchdowns, with 46.
In 1962, he helped the Texans win the American Football League championship in the classic double-overtime victory over the defending champion Houston Oilers, scoring touchdowns on a 28-yard pass reception from quarterback Len Dawson, and on a 2-yard run.
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 Fantasy Football Resources
With an automated draft you choose your top players in order of how you would like to draft them, then the drafting software will choose your players according to to where you rank in the draft order and who was chosen before your turn in the draft.
The pay leagues consist of non-keeper leagues, hi-lo league where you pick the team that will score the most and the team that will score the least each week and then a playoff football league where you pick players from the teams in the playoffs each week.
Football Software to automate all the tasks that you do manually to run your fantasy football league; customize to fit your leagues rules and scoring system; automatically download the NFL stats and calculate your leagues game results; create more than 20 reports that can be uploaded to a web site, e-mailed, or printed.
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 NFL.com - NFL HISTORY
From the birth of professional football through New England's victory in Super Bowl XXXVIII, follow the growth and development of the NFL each decade.
The history of the NFL is reflected in the history of the college draft.
Since 1936, what happened in the draft room would set the stage for what happened on the gridiron, shaping the destiny of teams for years to come.
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 NFL.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
CANTON, OHIO (Aug. 23, 2000) — Nick Buoniconti, a 5-foot-11, 220-pound middle linebacker, who played 14 seasons (1962-1974, 1976) with the Boston Patriots and the Miami Dolphins, has been selected by the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Senior Committee as a finalist for election into the Hall of Fame with the Class of 2001.
An undersized player, he wasn't even drafted by a National Football League team, and lasted until the 13th round of the 1962 American Football League draft, before being tapped by the Patriots.
Even his coach at Notre Dame advised NFL scouts that he was too small to play in the pros.
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 american football iowa sports info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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 The Birth 1962 - Fantasy Football Cafe 2005
Fantasy football is the revenge of a fan disenfranchised by free agency, allowing any league participant to draft, start, bench or waive the same millionaire players who once broke hearts by dumping the hometown NFL team for bigger bucks in Baltimore.
Fantasy football, according to geeks who were there at the time, was born in a New York City hotel in 1962.
Fantasy football is everywhere, from a Florida sports bar where some geek inexplicably goes nuts every time Jon Kitna throws a touchdown for the Seahawks, to cubbies in the Denver Tech Center, where a computer programmer who's supposed to be working is secretly computing the league standings for the week.
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 Four Former Grambling Greats Listed The Best Black College Athletes of All Time-BlackAthlete Sports Network
In 1963, he was the first player selected in the inaugural (and former) American Football League Draft by the Dallas Texans which later moved to Kansas City and were renamed the Chiefs.
Williams was drafted in the first round of the 1978 NFL draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The Oklahoma Outlaws of the United States Football League (USFL) signed him to a lucrative contract and showed a resounding vote of confidence in him as a true team leader in 1984.
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 History of the National Football League
The Arizona Cardinals are oldest remaining football team.In 1900 William C. Temple became the first individual team owner.In 1902 Philadelphia Athletics and Philadelphia Phillies joined the Pittsburgh Stars to become the National Football League but later was disbanded.All three claimed the Championship for the year but President Dave Berry said the Stars were the champions.
A world series of football which was a five-team tournament was played between the New York,New York Knickerbockers, Syracuse AC, Warlow AC and the Orange AC;Syracuse won the tournament.
Football in Pennsylvania declined and moved west to Ohio.
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 Jerry Rice Biography-ALLAuthentic.com Sports Memorabilia & Collectibles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Jerry Rice (born October 13, 1962 in Starkville, Mississippi) is an American football player in the NFL.
Rice was drafted by the 49ers in the first round of the 1985 NFL draft (16th overall).
He struggled in his first season with the 49ers as he learned their system, but by the 1986 season, he caught 86 passes and led the league in receiving yards (1,570) and receiving touchdowns (15).
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 The Ballplayers | BaseballLibrary.com
An umpire for semi-pro, youth, and high school leagues in the Chicago area, his particular passions are the study of rules and the White Sox.
is the chairman of SABR's Negro Leagues Committee.
As a draft dodger from Seattle he was happy to have been a Blue Jay fan from the start of that franchise rather than suffering the long period of ineptness before the Mariners finally achieved a winning season, but abandoned the Blue Jays after they began playing under a publicly financed dome.
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 HOF: Buoniconti named as Senior finalist - Pro Football Hall of Fame
Nick Buoniconti, a 5-11, 220-pound middle linebacker, who played 14 seasons (1962-1974, 1976) with the Boston Patriots and the Miami Dolphins, has been selected by the Pro football Hall of Fame's Senior Committee as a finalist for election into the Hall of Fame with the Class of 2001.
An undersized player, he wasn't even drafted by a National Football League team, and lasted until the thirteenth round of the 1962 American Football League draft, before being tapped by the Patriots.
Named to the All-Time AFL team in 1970, Buoniconti recorded 32 career interceptions and was named a first team All-AFL/AFC choice eight times.
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 Member - Pro Football Hall of Fame
An undersized player, he defied all the numbers by which pro scouts judge potential.
He wasn’t even drafted by a National Football League team, and lasted until the thirteenth round of the 1962 American Football League Draft, before being tapped by the Boston Patriots.
Even his coach at Notre Dame advised AFL and NFL scouts that he was too small to play in the pros.
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 New England Patriots History Hall of Famers presented by NFLHistory.net
John Hannah, a 6-2, 265-pound guard from Alabama, was the first round pick of the New England Patriots and the fourth player selected in the 1973 National Football League Draft.
He was an eight-letterman star in football, track and wrestling and a two-time grid All-America at Alabama.
My dad played football with the Boston Patriots in the 60's his name is Daryl Johnson DB/Was a QB out of Morgan State.
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 National Football League - Pictures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Since 1967, the NFL champion is the winner of the Super Bowl, played between the respective champions of the AFC and NFC.
CBS took over television coverage of the NFL in the mid 1960s, while the AFL was first covered by ABC and than later NBC.
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 Association for Professional Basketball Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
EBL Eastern Basketball League 1925-26, 1928-29 to 1935-36
MPBL Midwest Professional Basketball League 1961-62 to 1963-64
NABL North American Basketball League 1964-65 to 1967-68
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 Timeline 1862-1863
She helped the American Red Cross Nursing Service to be recognized as the nursing reserve for the Army and Navy.
She tended wounded soldiers, but after only a few weeks she became ill. In accordance with army medical practice of the time, Alcott was given large doses of calomel, an emetic containing mercury, which rendered her a semi-invalid.
The inequality of this arrangement led to draft riots in New York.
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 Encyclopedia: 1962 American Football League Draft   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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The first and one of the most prominent of these was LSU All-American
Billy Cannon, who went on to become an AFL All-Star both as a running back with the Houston Oilers and as a tight end with the
Other greats signed by the AFL in the years before the common draft included Abner Haynes and
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