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Thus the final four AFL championship games were held on the same day as the NFL championship game: January 1, 1967; December 31, 1967; December 29, 1968; and January 4, 1970. The Pro Football Hall of Fame and the National Football League include AFL playoffs in their statistics for the NFL playoffs.
The American Football League (AFL) was a major professional American football league that operated for ten seasons from 1960 until 1970, when it merged with the older National Football League (NFL), and became the American Football Conference. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence.
Beginning with the 1933 season, the NFL featured a championship game, played between the winners of its two divisions.In this era, if there was a tie for first place in the division at the end of the regular season, a one-game playoff was used to determine the team that would represent their division in the NFL Championship Game.
Following an agreement to merge the NFL with the rival American Football League (AFL) in 1966, the Super Bowl was first held in 1967 to determine a champion between the best teams from the two leagues and has remained as the final game of each NFL season since the merger was completed in 1970. After the merger, all AFL Championship Games and ...
ABC is scheduled to air 13 games, including the preseason Pro Football Hall of Fame game, 9 regular season games with 3 exclusive to the network, one Wild Card playoff game and one Divisional playoff game. [12] On October 11, 2024, ABC announced it was adding 6 additional Monday Night Football simulcasts for the 2024 NFL season. [13]
1970: As part of AFL–NFL merger, AFL Eastern adopted its current name with the Houston Oilers moving to the AFC Central while the Baltimore Colts moved in from the NFL Coastal. 1970: Baltimore (11–2–1) Miami (10–4) N.Y. Jets (4–10) Buffalo (3–10–1) Boston (2–12) 1971: The Boston Patriots were renamed as the New England Patriots ...
The Patriots scored the fewest points in the league in 1970 with 149, and allowed 361; they missed the playoffs for the seventh straight season. Despite being a Super Bowl quarterback, no NFL team made contact with 32-year-old Joe Kapp until after the start of the regular season. [ 4 ]
Despite AFL triumphs in Super Bowls III and IV, the old-guard NFL was still widely expected to dominate the merged league over the course of an entire season. In 1970, these predictions were proven to be more or less correct: out of 60 regular season games pitting old-line NFL teams versus former AFL teams, former AFL teams went 19–39 (two ...