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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]
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 ...
1966 AFL Championship Game At War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo, this became the first AFL title game that didn’t end the season: The winner would play in the first Super Bowl.
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]
Elway's final game minted him as an all-time great, Denver repeating thanks to an MVP effort (336 passing yards, TD pass, TD run) from its 38-year-old gunslinger. 44. XXVII (27, 1992) Cowboys 52 ...
The 1966 American Football League All-League Team was selected after the 1966 American Football League season by AFL players, [1] the Associated Press (AP), [2] the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), [3] the New York Daily News (NYDN), and United Press International (UPI) [4] to honor the league's top performers at each position.