While the NFL retained its old name and logo, it nevertheless claims the rights to all AFL products and trademarks, including the name and the eagle logo.

Today, the blue star has been extended to not only the Dallas Cowboys, but owner Jerry Jones ' AFL team, the Dallas Desperados that have a similar logo based on the Cowboys.

Chargers ' AFL logo 1966 – 1969

Chargers AFL logo

During its period in the AFL, the club also used a shield logo that featured a horsehead, a lightning bolt, and the word " Chargers ".

The AFL logo from 1987 – 2002.

The current Melbourne club jumper consists of a red V-neck on a navy blue background, with the AFL logo on the front as well as the Webjet logo, their main sponsor.

The noteworthy exceptions were the ball ( which was drawn as the lighter colored, brown-with-blue-stripe ball used in the AFL at that time ) and the color scheme of the logo, which was slightly modified to mirror the team colors of the Tennessee Titans.

Other AFL owners agreed to the terms, along with stripping the name and logo from the AFL.

The history and records of the AFL would be incorporated into the older league, but its name and logo would be retired.

This second Kats franchise reclaimed the name, logo, and Nashville history of the earlier franchise as its own ( The original Kats franchise continued to operate as the Georgia Force until folding in 2008 ; Similarly, that franchise was reincarnated in 2011 when the existing AFL team Alabama Vipers relocated to the Atlanta area and assumed the Georgia Force identity ).

The AFL on NBC logo.

NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, who had been moving slowly in Atlanta matters, was spurred by the AFL interest and headed on the next plane down to Atlanta to block the rival league's claim on the city of Atlanta.

The American Football League ( AFL ) was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League ( NFL ) merged with it.

During its final two years of existence, the AFL teams won upset victories over the NFL teams in Super Bowl III and IV, the former New York Jets victory was considered one of the biggest upsets in American sports history.

For the centenary of the VFL / AFL in 1996, the Australian Football Hall of Fame was established.

" However, that proposal was rejected 15-1 by the AFL Commission, reportedly out of concern that a merged all-Victorian club would be too powerful.

Due to the impending merger of the American Football League and the National Football League, which was due to take full effect in the season, Brown agreed to join the AFL as its tenth and final franchise.

Brown was not a supporter of the rival American Football League, stating that " I didn't pay ten million dollars to be in the AFL.

" He only acquiesced to joining the AFL when he was guaranteed that the team would become an NFL franchise after the impending merger of the two leagues.

One bright spot was running back Paul Robinson, who rushed for 1, 023 yards and was named the AFL Rookie of the Year.

The two-point conversion was not implemented in the NFL until 1994, but it had been previously used in the old American Football League ( AFL ) before it merged with the NFL in 1970.

The team went back to wearing this uniform at home on Thanksgiving Day in 2009 while their opponent was the Oakland Raiders who wore their AFL Legacy Weekend throwbacks.

At the end of the season, Sheedy signed a new three-year contract, by the end of which he was the second on the list of most VFL / AFL games coached behind Collingwood's Jock McHale.

This was changed after 2011 when the AFL deemed that the wider sash did not provide a sufficient contrast.

This was later changed by the AFL to Skeeta Reynolds.

Besides the bid for an AFL club which was passed over in favour of a second Queenland team, despite several major local businesses and the Premier pioneering for a club, there is also a Hobart bid for entry into the A-League.

The American Federation of Labor ( AFL ), founded by Samuel Gompers, was established due to the vexation of many Knights who parted from the KOL.

This meant that the Order was teaching something that was not so in the hope that sometime it would be .’ But the AFL affiliates organised carpenters as carpenters, bricklayers as bricklayers, and so forth, teaching them all to place their own craft interests before those of other workers.

However, the AFL was right behind them picking up their pieces.

This was another way in which the AFL helped to destroy the Knights.

Once an associate was no longer a knight, and they fit the description of an AFL member, they hunted them down and offered them a spot.

Regardless of black members being excluded, the AFL was the most prevalent union federation in America before the mid-1940s.

In 2007, the AFL agreed to allow yellow armbands to be incorporated into the left sleeve of the jumper.

( This game, along with all other AFL games, were incorporated into the NFL record books following the 1970 merger of the two leagues.

The AFL, currently with 18 member clubs, is the sport's elite competition and the most powerful body and continues to seek further opportunities to expand into new markets.

When the AFL and NFL merged, the team fell into a state of mediocrity along with their star quarterback, Namath, who only had three successful post-merger seasons after injuries hampered much of his career.

In 1970, the San Diego Chargers were placed into the AFC West division after the NFL merger with the AFL.

Coming into this game, like during the first Super Bowl, many sports writers and fans believed that any team in the NFL was vastly superior to any club in the AFL.

As per the merger agreement, all 26 AFL and NFL teams were divided into 2 conferences with 13 teams in each of them.

This was also the first Super Bowl played in a stadium that was not the current home to an NFL or AFL team, as no team had called Rice Stadium home since the Houston Oilers moved into the Astrodome.

This was also Kangaroos ' veteran Shannon Grant's last AFL game, and he was given a standing ovation by both Swans and Kangaroos players as he represented both clubs throughout his career ( although it was at North Melbourne where Grant really made his mark in the game ) Their only clash in 2009 ( Round 14, which the Swans won by 15 points to end a four-game losing streak ) was aired into both the Sydney and Brisbane markets rather than the live vs. match which was a high-rating television match around the rest of the country.

Eight minutes into the second quarter of the 1997 AFL season Carey dislocated his left shoulder for the second time in his career, and missed much of the season.

The AFL is divided into two conferences-the American Conference and National Conference.

Albany will not play in 2010 while seeking an expansion into the " new " AFL in 2011, along with planned addition, Toledo.

Of the 7 af2 franchises which moved into the reorganized Arena Football League, only Iowa, Milwaukee, and Spokane remain in their original markets as of end of the 2012 AFL season.

8, the AFL – CIO has the authority to place conditions on the issuance of charters, and formally has endorsed the policy of merging small unions into larger ones.

After resigning as head of the CIO in 1941, he took the Mine Workers out of the CIO in 1942 and in 1944 took the union into the American Federation of Labor ( AFL ).

Lewis was one of the most controversial and innovative leaders in the history of labor, gaining credit for building the industrial unions of the CIO into a political and economic powerhouse to rival the AFL, yet was widely hated as he called nationwide coal strikes damaging the American economy in the middle of World War II.

* June 8: The AFL and NFL reach an agreement to merge as equals into one league under the NFL name, to take effect with the 1970 season.

As the AFL grew into an established league with close to 20 teams, it defined itself as a major market pro sports product and welcomed Commissioner C. David Baker, ( 1996 – 2008 ).

Facing the threat of Red Grange's American Football League in 1926, the NFL was eager to get as many teams and players as possible into the fold to keep them away from the AFL.

Mara had then allowed the New York Yankees, owned by Grange's manager C. C. Pyle, to use the franchise when that team moved from the defunct AFL into the NFL.

The Knights of Labor soon fell into decline, and their place in the labor movement was gradually taken by the American Federation of Labor ( AFL ).

Not only did many AFL unions exclude Black workers or relegate them into separate organizations, different groups of Asian immigrants had been excluded for decades.

When possible, the AFL forced industrial unions to break up into craft unions, dividing their memberships into exclusive groups with individual contracts.