Tales from the American Football League
Preserving the legacy of the AFL
I had a thought-provoking inquiry recently by Tex Noel, the Executive Director of the Intercollegiate Football Researchers Association. Tex was working on a massive project in which he had compiled a list of all First Round Draft Choices, from every professional football league that held a draft (AFL, NFL, AAFC, WFL, USFL, XFL and CFL – the [...]
> As was discussed in my last blog post, after a bit, the owners of the original American Football League teams came to call themselves the Foolish Club, because they must have been crazy to challenge the stranglehold that the NFL had on professional football. The photo shown above actually shows the Foolish Club minus [...]
