founded the team that would become the Chiefs and the American Football League (AFL) to compete with the ... memo sent to then-NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle. The name stuck, and the NFL made ...

Less known on these shores is that oil heir Hunt was also having a similar effect on American football ... Pete Rozelle was driving a merger plan. The merger was not universally supported by the ...

So when Foss -- then the commissioner of the upstart American Football League -- sent a letter to his NFL counterpart, Pete Rozelle ... While he was not the only AFL official calling for a ...

The Hunt family has owned the Chiefs since their initial founding as the AFL's Dallas Texans in 1960. Hunt Sr. founded the team that would become the Chiefs and the American Football League (AFL ...

The American Football League was the brainchild of Lamar Hunt, right, in this undated photo with NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle ... Hunt founded the AFL, later merging it with the NFL in 1966 ...

The oil magnate was part of the “Foolish Club” that founded the AFL, back when ... two professional football leagues together. In a letter to NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle, Hunt mused about ...

The rival American Football League needed ... commissioner Pete Rozelle of the NFL hated the label, once it was brought up by AFL commissioner Lamar Hunt, who had gotten the idea from one of ...

After the game, Lombardi told reporters, “That’s a good football team ... Hunt wrote to NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle proposing a match between the AFL and NFL champs. He wrote, “I have ...