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	National Football League @ FootballLiving.com
		Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh will host the Miami Dolphins in the 2006 American football season opener on September 7, the National Football League announced.
		Super Bowl champion Steelers to host Miami in 2006 NFL opener (AFP via Yahoo!
		NFL owners begin process of selecting new commissioner (AFP via Yahoo!
	www.footballliving.com (316 words)

	National Football League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the 2004 season, the NFL's salary cap was $80.582 million, an increase of $5.5 million from 2003.
		By 1966, the leagues agreed to merge as of the 1970 season.
		The league played a regular-season NFL game in Mexico City in 2005 and intends to play more such games in other countries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/NFL (4320 words)

	Team - Pro Football Hall of Fame
		Between the two, Lambeau and Lombardi brought the Packers 11 NFL championships, including two record strings of three straight titles, the first in 1929, 1930 and 1931 and the second in 1965, 1966 and 1967.
		First NFL Regular-season game: A 7-6 victory over the Minneapolis Marines, 10/23/21.
		No team in NFL history has won more championships than the Packers which has earned Green Bay the moniker, "Titletown USA." Over the years, the Packers have twice strung together three straight league crowns (1929-31, and 1965-67).
	www.profootballhof.com /history/team.jsp?franchise_id=12 (830 words)

	Busch Stadium -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Louis Rams played there briefly during part of the (Click link for more info and facts about 1995) 1995 NFL season, until their new stadium, now the (Click link for more info and facts about Edward Jones Dome) Edward Jones Dome, was ready.
		It was then altered to accommodate the NFL.
		The original design of the 1966 stadium was a true baseball park.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bu/busch_stadium.htm (837 words)

	Definition of Super Bowl - Biocrawler
		An AFL-NFL Championship Game was first played after the 1966 football season on January 15, 1967, between the champions of the American Football League and the NFL.
		After the 1970 season, the game reverted from an essentially interleague championship to the NFL championship, featuring the champions of the NFL's two conferences, the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference.
		Previous to the 1966 football season, American professional football's championship games were played for various league championships, and games were not played between league champions.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Super_Bowl (1289 words)

	Football.com
		Teams that enter the NFL for the 1923 season:
		Teams that join the NFL for the 1925 season:
		Teams that join the NFL for the 1927 season:
	www.football.com /history/index.shtml (1289 words)

	Super Bowl
		An AFL-NFL Championship Game was first played after the 1966 football season on January 15, 1967, between the champions of the American Football League and the NFL.
		After the 1970 season, the game reverted from an essentially interleague championship to the NFL championship, featuring the champions of the NFL's two conferences, the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference.
		Previous to the 1966 football season, American professional football's championship games were played for various league championships, and games were not played between league champions.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Super-Bowl.htm (1265 words)

	NFLHistory.txt
		1949 The Boston Yanks move to New York and become the New York Bulldogs for the 1949 season The AAFC dissolves after the 1949 season and the Browns, 49ers and Colts move into the NFL for the 1950 season.
		NFL History NFL Franchise Year-by-Year Genealogy Entry of Current Teams into the NFL Defunct NFL Franchises League Champions NFL Franchise Year-by-Year Genealogy 1920 The American Professional Football Association was formally organized to begin play in fall of 1920.
		New Orleans is awarded a franchise by the NFL, to be later named the Saints and to begin play in the Eastern Conference in 1967 Atlanta is moved to the Western Conference.
	www.geocities.com /billnor/NFLHistory.txt (385 words)

	89th US Congress
		Following this championship game, a player selection system will be instituted by the combined leagues with priority of selection determined by the won-loss record of each during the 1966 season.
		Pre-season games will be played between the teams of the two present leagues beginning with the 1967 season.
		A world championship game between the champions of the two present leagues will be established beginning in January, 1967.
	www.conigliofamily.com /89thCongress.htm (1412 words)

	NCAA Football Betting - Sports Betting Lines - NFL Betting Online
		An AFL-NFL World Championship Game was first played after the 1966 football season, in January 1967, between the champions of the American Football League and the NFL.
		After the 1970 season, the game reverted from a world championship to the NFL championship, featuring the champions of the NFL's two conferences, the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference.
		The game was a result of the merger agreement between the two leagues that took full effect for the 1970 season.
	www.online-super-bowl-odds.com (566 words)

	NFL Historical Trivia, Quizzes, Quiz Questions, Fun Facts, Information
		NFL and AFL champions of 1966 play off in AFL-NFL World Championship Game.
		AAFC and NFL agree to merge from next season, and form the National-American Football League.
		Facts, stats, and records from the NFL in the 20th century.
	www.funtrivia.com /dir/661.html (431 words)

	Adfunk Sport News
		In 1966, the leagues agreed to merge as of the 1970 season.
		Prior to the 2005-2006 football season, other NFL games were produced by competing video game publishers, such as Sega and Midway Games.
		The league played a regular-season NFL game in Mexico City in 2005 and intends to play more such games in other countries.
	adsport.blogspot.com (17043 words)

	TheJacksonChannel.com - NFL - NFL Preview - Buffalo (3-3) At Oakland (1-4)
		Buffalo last won in Oakland prior to the AFL/NFL merger, scoring a 31-10 victory in 1966.
		Buffalo was 1-3 before head coach Mike Mularkey benched second-year pro J.P. Losman in favor of Holcomb, and the 11-year NFL journeyman has delivered in a big way.
		Buffalo has struggled against the run in the absence of Pro Bowl linebacker Takeo Spikes (Achilles), who is out for the season.
	www.thejacksonchannel.com /nfl/5144385/detail.html (1672 words)

	Football.com
		NFL teams that fold between the 1923 and 1924 seasons:
		The Boston Braves join the NFL for the 1932 season
		This is the only time a rival league has successfully merged with the NFL.
	www.football.com /history/index.shtml (1672 words)

	no super bowl tickets available
		The birth of the NFL's biggest game of the year was when the AFL and NFL agreed to play a championship game after the 1966 season.
		The Super Bowl is sometimes the culmination of a great NFL season but other times, especially when the two final teams are mismatched, the game is a blow out and more of a media extravaganza then a sports spectacle.
		The Super Bowl is the ratings leader year after year among all televised sports events and, on the list of the fifty top-rated TV broadcasts, the game appears twenty times.
	65.23.158.191 /sports/football/nfl/super-bowl/1/Name.html (1840 words)

	profile.asp?sport=football&id=4
		In April 1966, Al became the Commissioner of the AFL, not knowing that talks of a merger with the NFL had begun.
		In July 1966, Davis stepped down as AFL Commissioner following the AFL-NFL merger and Al returned to the Raiders as general manager and principal owner.
		That season, he led the Raiders to a record of 10-4-0, was named AFL Coach of the Year, and became the first sportsman to be named Oakland's Young Man of the Year.
	www.jewsinsports.org /profile.asp?sport=football&id=4 (914 words)

	Lamar Hunt, Founder, Kansas City Chiefs
		On June 8, 1966, the AFL-NFL merger was announced by NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle and on January 15, 1967, Hunt’s Kansas City Chiefs were participating in the inaugural Super Bowl.
		In addition to being a principal negotiator in the merger of the AFL and NFL in the late ‘60s, he was a contributor to the design of the NFL playoff format.
		Beginning his 46th season of involvement with the sport in 2005, Hunt served as the catalyst who brought together the whimsically-named “Foolish Club” comprised of the eight original AFL owners and also helped the fledgling league take foot on the field for the ‘60 season.
	www.kcchiefs.com /front_office/lamar_hunt (1297 words)

	Football.com
		NFL teams that fold between the 1923 and 1924 seasons:
		The Boston Braves join the NFL for the 1932 season
		This is the only time a rival league has successfully merged with the NFL.
	www.football.com /history/index.shtml (1297 words)

	Formula One United States Grand Prix Tickets
		NFL: Catch all the hard hitting action this NFL Season.
		Jim Clark scored a memorable victory in 1965 and Graham Hill took the spoils in 1966.
		And so it remained for 11 seasons, its final running as a Formula One event coming in 1960.
	www.cheappremiumtickets.com /Auto_Racing/Formula_One_United_States_Grand_Prix_Tickets.cfm (1297 words)

	May 25 Birthdays in History
		May 25, 1971 Keith Hamilton, NFL defensive tackle for the New York Giants
		May 25, 1971 Alan Kline, NFL tackle for the New Orleans Saints
		May 25, 1966 Bill Haselman, Long Branch, New Jersey, catcher for the Boston Red Sox
	www.brainyhistory.com /daysbirth/birth_may_25.html (1502 words)

	NFL
		It was announced on June 8, 1966 that the two leagues would merge over the next three years and that, starting with the 1970 season, the NFL would be one league with two conferences, the AFC and the NFC.
		The first game between AFL an NFL teams was played on January 15, 1967 between the Green Bay Packers (who had defeated the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL championship) and the Kansas City Chiefs (who had defeated the Buffalo Bills in the AFL).
		New Orleans was awarded the next NFL franchise to begin play in 1967, and the rights to the Super Bowl were sold to CBS and NBC for $9.5 million for 4 years.
	homepages.evansville.edu /jj59/nfl.htm (1454 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - NFL Films: Super Bowl I-X - DVD - Stereo
		Highlights include the original telecast from Super Bowl I, footage of Bart Starr, Weeb Ewbank, Duane Thomas, and Hank Stram, among many others, as well as the legendary 1966 NFL Championship game, the fledgling stages of Terry Bradshaw's career, coverage of the Dolphins' perfect season in 1972, famous Super Bowl failures, and much more.
		Produced by NFL Films, the ten-hour collection kicks off with back-to-back hours on the Green Bay Packers' dominating wins in Super Bowls I and II.
		Some of the all-time best games in NFL Championship history were played out in this period, which culminates in the 1976 Pittsburgh victory over the Dallas Cowboys, a fiercely contested 21-17 showdown between future Hall of Fame quarterbacks Terry Bradshaw and Roger Staubach.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?cds2Pid=1774&ean=85393795825 (277 words)

	National Football League championships @ FootballLiving.com
		Following the NFL Championship Game for the 1966 through 1969 seasons, the NFL champion played the AFL champion in Super Bowls I through IV, the only true inter-league championship games of professional football.
		The home team for the NFL Championship Game was determined by a yearly rotation between the conferences (or divisions), not by regular season records.
		Thus, Super Bowl V in January 1971 was the first Super Bowl played for the NFL title.
	www.footballliving.com /moreinfo/National_Football_League_championships (1883 words)

	Wikipedia: Oakland Raiders
		In 1966, Davis became Commissioner of the AFL and is considered a driving force in raising the AFL to competitive levels that forced the NFL to merge with the younger league.
		By 2000, the Raiders began to reclaim their position among the NFL elite teams, highlighted by the emergence of veteran quarterback Rich Gannon as one of the best all-around quarterbacks in Oakland Raiders history.
		In 1970, the AFL-NFL merger took place and the Raiders joined the West Division of the American Football Conference in the newly merged National Football League.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/o/oa/oakland_raiders.html (852 words)

	NFL: Super Bowl I-X DVD - MovieWeb
		Highlights include the original telecast from Super Bowl I, footage of Bart Starr, Weeb Ewbank, Duane Thomas, and Hank Stram, among many others, as well as the legendary 1966 NFL Championship game, the fledgling stages of Terry Bradshaw's career, coverage of the Dolphins' perfect season in 1972, famous Super Bowl failures, and much more.
		NFL Films Archive Collection: Inside the Vault, Vol.
		NFL Films: Super Bowl - XI - XX
	movieweb.com /dvd/dvd.php?085393795825 (285 words)

	The New York Jets Historical Highlights
		Representatives of the AFL and NFL agreed to merge and play a world championship game following the 1966 season.
	www.newyorkjets.com /history/index.php?section=highlights&years=1969-1959&highlight_id=44 (35 words)

	State prep Hall of Fame to induct Fry,
		Drafted by Green Bay, he is in his fifth season in the NFL.
		He also made it to the semifinals with Dalhart in 1963, Monahans (1966), Hobbs (1971) and Port Neches-Groves (1974 and '76).
		This year, he has completed 218 of 369 passes for 2,695 yards and 15 TDs and led the Eagles to a wild-card berth in the playoffs.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/122396/state.htm (567 words)

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	football.thehealthempire.com /new-footballLS3900.html (567 words)

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