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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.
During the 1950s, the National Football League had grown to rival Major League Baseball as one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the United States. One franchise that did not share in this newfound success of the league was the Chicago Cardinals – owned by the Bidwill family – who had become overshadowed by the more popular Chicago Bears.
Oakland (12–1–1) and Kansas City (11–3), both from Western division, had the best records and both advanced to the AFL title game. The opening round of the AFL postseason was played December 20–21, the final week of the regular season for the NFL; they played the first round of their postseason the following weekend (December 27–28 ...
The American Football League (AFL) All-Time Team was selected on January 14, 1970. The first and second teams were determined by a panel of members of the AFL's Hall of Fame Board of Selectors: [1] [2] [3] [4]
The two teams had the best records in the AFL regular season and both had won divisional playoff games two weeks earlier to advance to the championship. Oakland had swept the two hard-fought regular season games between the two teams, [5] [6] [7] were favored by 4 to 5½ points, [1] [2] [3] and had taken seven of the last eight meetings. [8]
1970 season; President: Phil J. Ryan: Coach: John Kennedy, Sr. Captain(s) David Parkin: Home ground: Glenferrie Oval: VFL season: 10–12 (8th) Finals series: Did not qualify: Best and Fairest: Peter Hudson: Leading goalkicker: Peter Hudson (146) Highest home attendance: 26,068 (Round 6 vs. Richmond) Lowest home attendance: 8,061 (Round 21 vs ...
The 1970 NFL season was the 51st regular season of the National Football League, and the first after the consummation of the AFL–NFL merger.The merged league realigned into two conferences: all ten of the American Football League (AFL) teams joined the Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns, and Pittsburgh Steelers to form the American Football Conference (AFC); the other thirteen NFL clubs ...
The season is notable for being the last for the AFL, which merged into the NFL in 1970. The Raiders stormed to a 12–1–1 record in 1969 and led the league in wins for a third consecutive season. [1] In doing so, they posted a staggering 37–4–1 (.893) record over their final three years of AFL regular season play.