Great color imagery this week from NFL Films! This video covers a bit of the league conception, some of the more interesting stadia that the AFL teams played in, and of course, more interesting AFL characters!
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Todd Tobias's interest in the American Football League began in 1998, when he wrote his master's thesis about Sid Gillman. He created this site to educate and entertain football fans with the stories of the American Football League, 1960-1969. You can follow Todd and get more AFL history on Twitter @TalesfromtheAFL.
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Great remainer of the old fields…and you left off the Polo Grounds in New York. The field was a baseball field and was really unlevel….you could stand on one side and look across and see the high and low spots on the field.
Todd,
The league obviously was more wide open, but that was not the perception. Lionel Taylor’s 100 receptions in 1961 and Charlie Hennigan’s 101 catches in 1964 were met by derision. Those gaudy numbers reinforced what those skeptical of the AFL thought. it was a bush league with inferior players that were not good enough to play in the NFL. That was the perception at the time but not for me and if the Chargers would have stayed in LA with the talent they had, I would have never have had any reason to follow the Rams, and the Rams under George Allen were exceptional.
If I’m not mistaken, this excerpt is from a series titled “The Lost Treasures of NFL Films.” One of the episodes was devoted solely to the AFL. In fact, NFL Films was also “AFL Films”, an artificial entity created after the merger in 1966 so that AFL fans would not be irritated that NFL Films was actually documenting their games.
The Patriots played their home games at Fenway Park in the early 60’s. They actually put bleachers in front of the left field way/Green Monster!
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