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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 31 > Blazing the trail: American Football League was launched 50 years ago

Blazing the trail: American Football League was launched 50 years ago

By Doug Tucker / The Bulletin
August 31, 2009

KANSAS CITY, Mo. " Comfortable and conservative, giddy in the afterglow of their classic Colts-Giants game, National Football League owners had no interest in some Texas rich kid.

Already rebuffed in several efforts to buy a team, 29-year-old Lamar Hunt was finally told the league did not....

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