Was Dan Marino better than John Elway? Peyton Manning over Eli? Was JaMarcus Russell worse than Ryan Leaf? Here are our ...

Two years later, with the AFL-NFL merger already announced and interleague play set to begin in 1970, the AFL expanded again, awarding a franchise to Cincinnati. The Bengals began play in 1968.

After watching the AFL-NFL merger, the ABA was formed with the express intent of one day merging with the NBA and while the two leagues didn’t officially join until 1976 due to an ongoing ...

The AFL-NFL merger also laid the foundation for the modern NFL’s dominance in American sports, leading to the emergence of football as the most popular sport in the country. The pen that President ...

The football world is in mourning today as one of the best pass rushers of the AFL-NFL rivalry years and a beloved Super Bowl ...

McVay became the youngest coach since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970 when the Los Angeles Rams hired him in 2017 at age 30. Many ...

Gerry Philbin was one of the leaders of the New York Jets' historic upset of the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III.

By virtue of Sunday's 19-13 win over the Falcons, Pittsburgh became the first team since the AFL-NFL merger to win 500 regular season games. Since 1970, the Steelers have posted a regular season ...

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Small sample size alert! But, Anthony Richardson's three games in 2024 make him the most boom-or-bust QB since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger. At least that's what the stats say. Let's start with the ...

Since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970, there have only been eight previous instances in which a championship game matchup was a repeat of the year before (including two trilogies).

For years, the NFL season simply did not run long enough to reach the holiday. Until the AFL-NFL merger in 1970, the regular season ended in mid-December with the championship game two weeks later.