There is a feeling among AFL fans that the American Football League players are consistently overlooked for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In truth there are many players, the bulk of whose careers were spent in the AFL, that deserve serious consideration, if not outright induction. In an effort to spark some [...]
>1960 AFL Rookie of the Year & Most Valuable Player – Abner Haynes
March 29, 2012 By 7 Comments
> People remember the Boston Red Sox outfielder, Fred Lynn, as the winner of major league baseball’s Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player awards in the season of 1975. The Seattle Mariners’ Ichiro Suzuki duplicated the feat in 2001. But few sports fans recall that Dallas Texans’ running back, Abner Haynes, won the American Football League’s [...]
>The AFL’s First All-Star Game
March 6, 2012 By 3 Comments
> Two weeks after the Houston Oilers defeated the San Diego Chargers by a score of 10-3 in the 1961 AFL Championship Game, the league’s best and brightest gathered in San Diego to participate in the AFL’s first all-star game. The all-star squads represented either the AFL’s Eastern or Western Divisions, consisted of 29 players, and [...]
>The Amazing Abner Haynes
November 9, 2010 By 2 Comments
> Abner Haynes avoids Buffalo’s Arch Matsos in the 1962 AFL All-Star Game. 1. Who was originally chosen by the Minneapolis-St. Paul franchise in the 1960 AFL Draft, but then immediately traded to the Dallas Texans? 2. Who earned both the 1960 AFL Rookie of the Year honors and the 1960 AFL Most Valuable Player [...]
