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The Sporting News published American Football League All-League Teams for each season played by the American Football League, 1960 through 1969.From 1960 through 1966, the All-League Team was selected by the AFL players, and from 1967 through 1969 it was selected by a consensus of The Sporting News (TSN), the Associated Press (AP), United Press International (UPI), and the Newspaper Enterprise ...
The AFL now had nine teams, grouped into two divisions (the new Miami team was in the Eastern Division, now with five teams), and still played a 14-game schedule. In previous seasons (with eight clubs), each played a home-and-away game against the other seven. All nine teams faced each other at least once, and each team played six others twice.
Six Chargers were in the West team for the AFL All-Star game, while three were named to the Associated Press All-AFL 1st team and one to the 2nd team. [113] [114] Also, Alworth received two of the twenty-seven available votes for the UPI AFL player of the year award. [115]
Here’s a look at the previous five playoff meetings between these AFL originals: 1966 AFL Championship Game. ... The teams combined to score 25 points in the final 1:54 of the fourth quarter ...
The AFL–NFL merger agreement of June 1966 called for a "world championship game" between the league champions. When a date of January 15, 1967, was established, the AFL title game was moved to January 1, same as the NFL championship game in Dallas. The AFL game was at 1 p.m. EST, televised by NBC, and the NFL game followed at 4 p.m. on CBS. [1]
The 1966 Pro Bowl was the National Football League's sixteenth annual all-star game which featured the outstanding performers from the 1965 season. The game was played on January 16, 1966, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles , California , with an attendance of 60,124. [ 2 ]
The last game in AFL history was the AFL All-Star Game, held in Houston's Astrodome on January 17, 1970. The Western All-Stars, led by Chargers quarterback John Hadl, defeated the Eastern All-Stars, 26–3. Buffalo rookie running back O. J. Simpson carried the ball for the last play in AFL history.
The game had to be moved from Tulane Stadium in New Orleans after several incidents of racism in the city. The 1965 All-Star Game was the AFL's fourth annual season-ending showpiece, which featured the outstanding performers from the 1964 season. A team drawn from the Western Division defeated their Eastern counterparts by a score of 38–14 ...