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.

It was at Horrigan's insistence that the merged leagues retained AFL team, coaching, and player records / statistics as official pro football records.

3MP retained its existing Easy Listening format while 3EE was relaunched as Magic 693 with music from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s and weekend AFL broadcasts.

To televise their games, the combined league retained the services of CBS and NBC, who were previously the primary broadcasters of the NFL and the AFL, respectively.

Carlton is considered to be the club's most bitter arch-rival ( for full details see Carlton – Collingwood AFL rivalry ), with Essendon close behind.

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 ).

The AFL nonetheless continued its association with the group, which declined in importance as the decade of the 1910s drew to a close.

Despite its close connections to many in Congress, the AFL was not able to block the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947.

The two federations fought it out for membership ; while both supported Roosevelt and the New Deal, the CIO was further to the left, while the AFL had close ties to the big city machines.

The AFL have increasingly regarded the stadium owner as a hostile landlord, engaging in numerous lawsuits against the current owners and threatening to build a rival stadium as close as a kilometre away in the short-term.

After the decision to close the venue was made by the AFL, the ground's drawbacks were highlighted.

However, low attendance ( less than half of the average of the AFL franchise ) and a relatively poor season ( a five-game winning streak to close the season wasn't able to turn a 4 – 7 start into a playoff berth ) would lead to that franchise suspending operations following their first season.

The same teams met again in the 2006 AFL Grand Final, another close match, with the Eagles emerging victors by one point.

Their selection in those games were representative of the organization's ties to Houston and the old AFL.

There were two ties in AFL history before the 2006 rule change:

The 41 – 41 tie at the Dallas Desperados on April 8 was only the second in AFL history, and prompted the League to change its overtime rules to eliminate ties before the start of the 2006 season.

Organized in 1903 at the American Federation of Labor convention, the WTUL spent much of its early years trying to cultivate ties with the AFL leadership.

Storrow's group recommended that Curtis and the police agree to a police union without AFL ties and without the right to strike.

Mink ( 1986 ) concludes that the link between the AFL and the Democratic Party rested in part on immigration issues, noting the large corporations, which supported the Republicans, wanted more immigration to augment their labor force.

Democratic Socialists of America leader Michael Harrington wrote that the AFL-CIO had " initiated a programmatic redefinition that had much more in common with the defeated socialist proposal of 1894 than with the voluntarism of Gompers " referring to Samuel Gompers, the founder of the AFL, who had openly opposed socialism for decades.

He was the first Republican senator ever endorsed by the Pennsylvania AFL – CIO, and even received 49 % of the vote in heavily Democratic Philadelphia.

To the Vikings credit, the NFL used the so-called light " greyhound " centers while the AFL used big centers.

While the AFL was played in cities like Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, Dallas, and Chicago, the AF2 fielded teams in cities which are part of metropolitan statistical areas ranging in size from Milwaukee ( with 1, 739, 497 residents ) to Albany, Georgia ( with 164, 000 residents ).

However after the AFL folded in 1927, the league began moving its small-market franchises to the larger cities.

As of 2008, AFL matches have been shown in prime time in all capital cities except Sydney, which receives the telecast usually after 10: 30pm unless the Sydney Swans are playing.

On the other hand, the AFL had teams in cities that were not among the nation's leading media markets, such as Miami, Buffalo, and Denver ( all of which at the time had no other major league teams ), and Kansas City ( which at the time had only a failing – and ultimately relocated – baseball team ).

It was a coalition of unions, each based on strong local chapters ; the AFL coordinated their work in cities and prevented jurisdictional battles.

As a result, the AFL unions spread to most cities, reaching a peak membership in 1919.

The American Federation of Labor ( AFL ) began granting charters to police unions in June 1919 when pressed to do so by local groups, and in just 5 months had recognized affiliate police unions in 37 cities.

Although Miami is farther south than the home cities of the other three teams, all of which are in the Northeast, all four AFC East teams have historical rivalries among them, dating from their years in the AFL during the 1960s.

There have been several players in the VFL / AFL who were born outside Australia and since 1982, an increasing number of players have been recruited from outside Australia through initiatives such as the Irish experiment and more recently, international scholarship programs.

Before the start of each AFL match, players run through a banner constructed by supporters.

From 1913 through the mid-1930s, the IWW's Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union ( MTWIU ), proved a force to be reckoned with and competed with AFL unions for ascendance in the industry.

These programs have little or no staff ( often using staff already employed by the AFL – CIO ), and little or no need for funding ( or using funds provided on an as-needed basis through existing AFL – CIO budgets ).

Two leagues have played under the official arena football rules: the AFL, which played 22 seasons from 1987 to 2008 and resumed play under new ownership in 2010, and arenafootball2, the AFL's erstwhile developmental league, which played 10 seasons from 2000 through 2009.

* In the 2008 film Baby Mama, one of the characters tried to win AFL tickets through a radio call-in contest.

Various sources, including former CIA officials, have suggested that this split was instigated by the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) and that FO had received funds from the CIA through the American Federation of Labor ( AFL )' s Irving Brown.

Occasionally region games air on CSN and WGN's CLTV, and all AFL games are streamed for free online through UStream.

Drafted out of the University of Tennessee in the 13th round of the 1962 AFL Draft, Stratton was selected as an AFL All-Star six straight seasons from 1963 through 1968.

The Chiefs remained successful through the 1960s, and in 1970 the Chiefs won the AFL Championship and Super Bowl IV ( the last Super Bowl played when the AFL was a separate league prior to it being absorbed into the NFL as the American Football Conference ) over the heavily-favored Minnesota Vikings.

Details of the history of black players in American professional football depend on the professional football league considered: the National Football League ( NFL ), which evolved from the first professional league, the American Professional Football Association, or the American Football League, ( AFL ), a rival league from 1960 through 1969, which eventually merged with the NFL.

As a result, for the years 1960 through 1962, AFL teams averaged 17 % more blacks than NFL teams did.

The AFL continued to concentrate its legislative efforts on obtaining political protection for the right of unions to organize and strike, rather than on obtaining social change through legislative action.

In the United States the principal impact of the Third Period was to end the CPUSA's efforts to organize within the AFL through the Trade Union Educational League and to turn its efforts into organizing dual unions through the Trade Union Unity League.

He was an American Football League All-Star six straight years, from 1963 through 1968, was named to the All-Time All-AFL Team, and to the Patriots All-1960s ( AFL ) Team.

Following the NFL and AFL Championship Games for the through seasons, the NFL champion played the AFL champion in Super Bowls I through IV, the only true inter-league championship games in the history of professional football.

He continued his syndicalist campaign, this time through the International Trade Union Educational League, while obtaining a position as a general organizer for the AFL in 1915.