National Football League owners thought they knew what they were getting in January 1960 when they couldn't ... merged with the young American Football League, created the Super Bowl, Monday ...

"Bud" Adams Jr. was one of the founding fathers of the American Football League in 1959. Heisman Trophy winner Billy ... The Oilers were the AFL's first champions, winning back-to-back titles in 1960 ...

When the rival American Football League (AFL) was formed in 1960, the two leagues not only competed for players but for fans ...

Adams’ influence on the game is undeniable. Joining former Kansas City owner Lamar Hunt, they founded the original American ...

Way.com ranks the most popular NFL teams based on social media following to determine the most popular team in the nation ...

Tom Blanda was the quarterback for Army in 1960, while Al Rushatz scored 10 ... Now, both teams play in the American Athletic Conference. The expanded playoff allows for the five highest-ranked ...

That all began to change, however, in 1960, when the upstart American Football League decided to boost their television revenues by pooling their broadcasting rights as a league and then sold them ...

the American Football League (AFL). With Hunt as president, the new league had eight teams when it began to play in the 1960s ...

The 6-foot-2, 215-pound Blanda led his league in pass attempts four times (1953 with the Bears, 1963-65 with the Houston Oilers in the American Football ... first two years (1960-61).

He was the only inductee to play his entire career in the American Football League, where he helped the Buffalo Bills win two championships in the 1960s. By Alex Williams Billy Shaw, an offensive ...

Shaw, a guard who helped the Buffalo Bills win back-to-back championships in the American Football League in the mid-1960s, was a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s class of 1999.

The young man was Lamar Hunt, who founded the American Football League that season and served as the league's first president when its eight new teams began play in 1960. Hunt's own team, the Dallas ...