The American Football League (AFL) ... 54,443 patrons crammed Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum for the 1969 AFL Championship Game on January 4, 1970. The Raiders exuded confidence, ...

With the help of the ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia, we compared the cumulative passing statistics of the AFL to the NFL from 1960 to 1969 -- the 10-season period in which the two competed as ...

Forty-five years have passed since the AFL’s final chapter was playing out in 1969, and a 10-team renegade league became a 13-team AFC in 1970, matching the 13-team NFC, all under the NFL umbrella.

Chiefs fans have waited 50 years for their second Super Bowl parade. Some Chiefs players from the 1969 championship team will finally be getting their first Super Bowl parade. Ten members of the Super ...

It was on May 10, 1969 that the Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers agreed to join the AFL to form the 13-team American Football Conference. Skip to main content.

1969: The AFL and NFL were still almost two years away from their full merger, and everyone assumed the NFL was still far superior. Not so fast, my friend.

Maybe, absent the AFL, pro football would still be an immensely popular (and profitable) sports staple embedded in American culture, ... By the Jets’ Super Bowl victory in January 1969, ...

The Bills' final game in the AFL was a 45-6 clunker in San Diego on Dec. 14, 1969.