Author: Ed Gruver
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: year, history, league, football, american
Number of Pages: 285
Published: 1997-09
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0786403993
ISBN-13: 9780786403998

Unable to buy into an existing team and rebuffed by National Football League owners who had no desire to expand, 27-year-old Lamar Hunt, the son of Texas billionaire H.L. Hunt, formed the American Football League in 1959. He placed his team in Dallas, called them the Texans, and invited other young entrepreneurs to join him. The seven men who did called themselves members of the "Foolish Club," but on September 9, 1960, the AFL made its regular season debut and went on to change the face of football forever. Unlike the NFL, the American Football League featured wide open offenses and innova