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The franchise of the American Football League
The American Football League was launched in 1960 by fans of professional football, which many of them had been deprived of ownership of franchise of the NFL, and was created to compete with more established NFL. League consisted of ten teams, but only eight have been League from the beginning, and most of them were located in cities that had no franchise competing in the NFL. Initially, the AFL has not had much respect, but to announce that the talented team and, finally, to show equality in the field, who have won the respect of football fans decent Pro There was parity in the league with six Original of the eight franchises to win a championship for the existence of the AFL. Most teams have undergone many periods of instability and long experience of successful but in the end when it came time for the AFL- NFL merger in 1970, each AFL franchise was put on the NFL and eventually proved to be useful additions.
Boston Patriots
The Patriots have spent their entire stay in the AFL as the Boston Patriots, does not change his side and the most famous name in New England Patriots in 1971. During his trip AFL, the Patriots called a number of areas of their home areas. They began to play Nickerson Field games and remains them for three years before spending six seasons as its football tenant next to the famous Fenway Park, playing his last season as member of the AFL in Alumni Stadium, the University of Harvard. Although the Patriots have not won a championship in the AFL and in fact ended the decade with a record below of 0500, were an important part of the league and after a long period of struggle have become one of the most successful franchises in the NFL.
Buffalo Bills
The Buffalo Bills won back Back to AFL title in 1964 and 1965 and had a very successful career as members of the AFL. Despite his two championships, the Bills are the managed to have a record below .500 during his stay in the AFL. Despite this loss, Property Bills played in the league of success. Bills playing at War Memorial Stadium, was one of two original AFL franchises to play their home games at the same venue every year, have been in the league. Bills would experience some early success in the NFL behind the star running back OJ Simpson, before fighting for a number of years. The Bills have made their mark in the NFL in early 1990 with four consecutive Super Bowl, although they have not won one of them.
The Cincinnati Bengals
A group led by the founder of Old Cleveland Browns owner and coach Paul Brown was awarded an AFL expansion franchise 1967. With the fundamentals of the merger of the AFL-NFL and planned, Brown agreed to join the team until after the AFL said it would form part of the league a few seasons later merged. The Bengals have played their two games of local Nippert Stadium of the AFL season and compiled a 7-20-1 record in his two seasons in the league. After becoming a part of the NFL, the Bengals would go to fight by a number of years before experiencing some success in the 1980s, culminating in two Super Bowls lose two hands of the San Francisco 49ers.
The Dallas Texans
Dallas Texans were one of the most successful AFL franchise for the operation of the league, winning three championships and going 92-50-5 in ten seasons. Texans owner Lamar Hunt was instrumental in the founding of the AFL, which largely continued after he was denied the opportunity owner of an NFL team. The Texans won the third AFL championship game in double overtime against the title twice winner of the Houston Oilers. Texans for share with the Dallas Cowboys of the NFL counterpart, and after three seasons with a league championship, the Texans found that the city can not support professional teams football. Looking for a team that can easily travel from Dallas decided to owner Lamar Hunt, Kansas City, Team leaders will also be renamed. Dallas Texans was one of two teams from the AFL to change its mascot (the other being the Titans / Jets) and also one of the two AFL teams to change cities (the other is Chargers.) The leaders know success in the AFL, possibly win the championship (Super Bowl IV in 1969) before the merger of the AFL-NFL was completed. The leaders would experience a moderate success as a full member of the NFL, but short of repeating the championship winning ways of his day of the AFL.
The Denver Broncos
The Denver Broncos have been one of the original AFL franchise in 1960. They were also the least successful of all the AFL franchises, not to win championships and compiling a 39-97-4 record in years beyond the League of American Football. The Broncos were the only original AFL franchise has a winning record during their stay in the league. However, the Broncos continued to be one of the franchises after the successful merger of the two leagues. The Broncos won their first success in the 1970s and have been back in the 1980s. Its summit success came at the end of 1990, when quarterback John Elway led them to two consecutive years of Super Bowl victories.
Houston Oilers
The Houston Oilers had a good start in the AFL, winning the championship the first year not only the league, but in the second year also. Then he lost the championship game in his third season in a double overtime game against the Dallas Texans in that moment the game longest ever played professional football. The Oilers have made sense from the beginning by the signing of Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon of Louisiana State University and paid for them. When the AFL-NFL merger, if the Oilers in the AFL record was three games over .500 (72-69-4). The Oilers have won a prize as the team professional football plays its home opener on the inside when they moved to the Astrodome for the 1968 season after playing their home games at two different stages that point (Jeppesen Stadium in 1960-64 and 1965-67 Rice Stadium.) After moving to the NFL, the Oilers would experience some success in the 1970s, after the broker Earl Campbell, and in 1980, fourth behind Warren Moon but did not take him back to a championship game until its defeat by the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXIV.
The Los Angeles Chargers
The Chargers of Los Angeles was one of the most successful AFL franchise, winning a league and earn victories on second champtionship the league (behind Dallas / Kansas City) to compile a 88-51-6 record with. After his first season in the league, the Chargers moved to San Diego, where they still play today. The Chargers were led by quarterback John Hadl and Lance Alworth receiver and were trained with ten years of the AFL Hall of Fame Sid Gillman. The Chargers would be in the NFL and successful experience in the 1980 quarter after Dan Fouts, and again also in the 1990s under coach Chief Bobby Ross, who would make their first appearance in the Super Bowl under the San Francisco 49ers loss. The team faces a slowdown in its success, before rising again to become one of the premier teams in the league behind star running back LaDainian Tomlinson.
Miami Dolphins
Miami Dolphins joined the AFL as an organization in 1965 as an expansion franchise was awarded to Joseph Robbie and actor Danny Thomas (who would sell his part of the team Robbie). The Dolphins will play home games during his four years in the AFL the famous Orange Bowl in Miami. The registration of the dolphins in the AFL is a sad 15-32-2 and this has been corrected in his first year in the NFL when his coach replaced future Hall of farmers and possibly of all time winning coach Don Shula. Dolphins is to have the first undefeated season by a professional football team in 1972 to win every game throughout the Super Bowl, a feat for the 2007 season yet double.
The New York Titans
New York Titans have been one of the original AFL franchises in 1960 and one of the three franchises located in a city where there was already a franchise in the NFL. The Titans have been respectable in his first two seasons, but after a lost season in 1962 without the team of community support almost saw him go broke. The franchise was saved from this fate by a change in ownership, and with this change of ownership came a change in the name of the team of New York Jets. This transition has seen other changes were made as well, future Hall of Fame WEEB Ewbank was hired as head coach and the team moved the Polo Grounds to Shea Stadium. The second half of 1960 saw Jets had much success which culminated in the AFL championship in 1969 and a Super Bowl victory in impressive (guaranteed by quarterback Joe Namath) on the NFL Baltimore Colts. Following its inclusion in the NFL, the Jets life experience mostly failed. Although the teams had strong and circled once in a while, have not yet had the chance to win another league championship.
Oakland Raiders
The Oakland Raiders were the last of the original AFL franchises to join the league in 1960. Early years of the franchise have been really chaotic, and the circumstances that came into the league even. A AFL franchise was assigned to Minnesota, but after the owners of the initial draft of the AFL team without a name instead of Minnesota have decided to join the NFL. This left to the AFL team was short and the task of finding a replacement property group and the city. Emphasis has been placed in Oakland, California, after the Chargers owners insisted on another West Coast team is added to the league, then it would ease the burden on your travel needs. When Oakland was allowed in the league, they have obtained rights of the players that the organization had developed Minnesota. Oakland played the first four home games in the first year Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, after receiving permission to play their last three home games at Candlestick Park in San Francisco too. Later games will be played at Frank Youell Field before moving to Oakland-Alameda Coliseum. The Raiders would be in trouble from the start both in the field and financially and have actually been saved from going out of business with a loan Ralph Wilson, owner of the Buffalo Bills. fortunes of the team returned in 1963 with a new coach and general manager Al Davis. The Raiders are improving steadily and win the 1967 AFL Championship before moving and losing the Super Bowl II Green Bay Packers NFL. The Raiders will be perfectly suited to the NFL after the merger, winning a Super Bowl in 1970 and two in the 1980s.
The Football League in the 1960s was the most successful candidate to the domination of the National League Football, eventually forcing a merger that makes the final league stronger and more dominant than it was combined. The AFL has been innovative and forced the NFL to move to a more modern game more exciting. What made the new league was a success that the AFL has been competing for the acquisition of players they need, competition to attract fans in need, and the end, when he won the first two of the last four Super Bowls, demonstrated in the very competitive field.
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