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You can count all the AFL games if you like, that's fine.
Seems pretty odd to me that you don't understand how statistical analyzes choose certain parts of statistics certain years certain whatever - home versus road games, day versus night games.
I prefer to compare apples to apples, NFL games only. You can compare all the oranges you like.
That league was very different than the NFL ... but Mr. Hunt was right, survival is what mattered. The NFL owners were old fashioned, they looked down their nose at the AFL .
They stole the Vikings away less than a year before the AFL was scheduled to begin play. The same name, the same team, same owners same uniforms ... All of it was set to start with the AFL. But the NFL went in and signed them out from under ...
Lamar Hunt owned the Texans in his hometown of Dallas. The NFL real quick-like put a franchise in Dallas the same year. The Cowboys and Texans both started in 1960. Lamar Hunt hated to do it, but after three years he moved out of Dallas to accommodate the NFL.
And it worked ... The AFL became the first serious insurgent startup League to survive with all its original teams. In fact, the AFL expanded, so Miami Dolphins and Cincinnati Bengals. Although the Bengals were added after the merger had already been agreed to.
Lamar Hunt was a truly great man.
same uniforms. They were all set to start with the AFL in 1960,
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