Haynes took home the AFL’s Rookie of the Year and Player of the Year honors. In 1962, he also led the AFL in total yards from scrimmage with 1,622, helping the team win the league championship.

It was the 1960s that ushered football's modern age, with the AFL-NFL merger in 1970 coming on the heels of the Super Bowl I in 1967.

An original Bronco, he was one of the original members of the team's Ring of Fame, which honors their greatest players and coaches.” ...

That happened in 1960 when the Houston Oilers were an American Football League charter member. The team won two AFL titles in 1960 and 1961 and lost their bid for a third in 1962, falling to the ...

The AFL-NFL Merger With professional football's popularity on the rise in the late 1950s, the American Football League was founded in 1959 to compete and also to bring football to new markets.

Mitch Brown played for the West Coast Eagles for a decade and has become the first male player in the Australian Football ...