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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.
Thus, in order to equalize the number of teams in each conference, three NFL teams that predated the AFL's launch (the Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers, and the then-Baltimore Colts) joined the ten former AFL teams to form the AFC in exchange for $3 million each in indemnities, with the announcement coming on May 10, 1969. [22]
The American Football Conference was a low-level American football minor league that operated between 1959 and 1961. The AFC was the first football league to operate teams in both the United States and Canada. In 1961 the league held the longest title game in pro football history, when Sarnia Golden Bears beat Toledo Tornadoes 39-33 in three ...
Here's the full schedule for the NFL playoffs this year: Super wild-card weekend: Saturday, Jan. 11 to Monday, Jan. 13 Divisional round: Saturday, Jan. 18 and Sunday, Jan. 19
The NFL playoffs are on to the divisional round following a six-game wild card slate with four teams in each conference still in the hunt for a spot in Super Bowl 59.
While the opening round of the 2024 NFL playoffs didn’t provide many nail-biting finishes, it did set up some must-see divisional round clashes. The two No. 1 seeds return from their well-earned ...
The 1960 AFL season was the inaugural regular season of the American Football League. It consisted of 8 franchises split into two divisions: the East Division (Buffalo Bills, Houston Oilers, Titans of New York, Boston Patriots) and the West Division (Los Angeles Chargers, Denver Broncos, Dallas Texans, Oakland Raiders).
While teams playing against their division rivals twice each has been a tradition since 1933, when divisions were first introduced (the first standardized schedule), not all teams would play the same number of divisional games due to the imbalances noted in the preceding paragraph: for example, the AFC Central between 1999 and 2001 consisted of ...