What is the American football league?
The American Football League is a professional football league that has not been created with the idea of competing with the National Football League, even though it is what it did. The American football league was founded in 1960 - decade after the establishment of the National Football League - for the vision of Lamar Hunt. The League started playing with eight teams: Boston Patriots, Buffalo Bills, Dallas Texans, Denver Broncos, Houston Oilers, Los Angeles Chargers, New York Titans and Oakland Raiders. The American football league, however, had a modest beginnings because in the early years it was plagued by low participation and financial problems. But things have never been bad enough to force teams to fold. While there was no initial intention to compete with the National Football League, on some occasions the team in each League developed the same university player and where this player decided to go into victory for this league. Gale Sayers chose NFL. Joe Nath chose AFL.
The National Football League also started franchises - especially Dallas Cowboys - directly to compete with the team of American football league. In the middle of fear of rising salaries caused by competition between leagues, Hunt and Dallas Cowboys, Tex Schramm owner created plans for fusion in 1966. The merger was to be completed by 1970 and from the 1966 season, the American football league champions and the National Football League met in the "World Championship". Results of the first two championship games - easy victory by Green Bay Packers NFL - just not to change this perception. However, this changed in 1969 when the New York Jets (formerly Titans) American Football League-18-point losers-Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III. Nath greatly guaranteed victory over the heavily popular Colts days before the game and victory gave the American football league legitimacy that he missed. Medicines merged next year and became an American football conferenceand the National Football Conference NFL. In the first Super Bowl of the new NFL, Kansas City Chiefs - Lamar Hunt's Team, which moved from Dallas and was renamed - defeated Minnesota Vikings.