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1969–1970 Oakland Raiders: 1971–1973 Forrest Gregg: Green Bay Packers: 1956, 1958–1970: 1977 Dallas Cowboys: 1971 Ralph Neely: Dallas Cowboys: 1965–1977: Not inducted Guard: Gene Hickerson: Cleveland Browns: 1958–1973: 2007 Jerry Kramer: Green Bay Packers: 1958–1968: 2018 Howard Mudd: San Francisco 49ers: 1964–1969: Not inducted ...
Paul Robinson (born 1944, American Football League Rookie of the Year 1968, only running back in pro football history to rush for 1,000 yards for a first-year expansion team.) Frank Robotti; Paul Rochester (born 1938)
The National Football League 1970s All-Decade Team is a list of National Football League (NFL) players selected by voters of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The squad consists of first- and second-team offensive, defensive, and special teams units, as well as a first- and second-team head coaches.
The history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football.Both games have their origin in multiple varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, in which a football is kicked at a goal or kicked over a line, which in turn were based on the varieties of English public school football games descending from medieval ...
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.
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[1] [2] The AFL began play in 1960 and, like its rival league, used a playoff system to determine its champion. From 1966 to 1969, prior to the merger in 1970, the NFL and the AFL agreed to hold an Undisputed Championship Game called the AFL-NFL World Championship Game (renamed the Super Bowl after 1968).
Since the 1960s, all regular season and playoff games broadcast in the United States have been aired by national television networks. When the rival American Football League (AFL) began in 1960, it signed a 5-year television contract with ABC.