When the merger took place, all ten AFL franchises became part of the merged league's new American Football Conference ( AFC ), with three teams from the original 16-team NFL ( the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns, and Baltimore Colts ) joining them.

When Hunt, Adams, and Howsam were unable to secure a controlling interest in the Chicago Cardinals, they approached NFL commissioner Bert Bell and proposed the addition of expansion teams.

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.

When the NFL declined to approve the Raiders ' move from Oakland to Los Angeles in 1980, the team joined the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission in a lawsuit against the league alleging a violation of antitrust laws.

When the league was first organized in 1999, it was originally supposed to stand for " Xtreme Football League "; however, there was already a league in formation at the same time with that name, and so promoters wanted to make sure that everyone knew that the " X " did not actually stand for anything ( though McMahon would comment that " if the NFL stood for the ' No Fun League ', the XFL will stand for the ' extra fun league '").

When Brooklyn Tigers owner Dan Topping announced his intentions to join the All-America Football Conference in 1946, his NFL franchise was revoked and all of its players were assigned to the Yanks.

When neither team accepted, Striegel scheduled a game with the NFL's Rochester Jeffersons, who had not beaten an NFL opponent since 1921.

When Haugsrud did this, part of the deal gave him first rights for any future NFL team in Minnesota.

When the Gunners left the NFL, they were replaced by the Cleveland Rams.

When the NBA, MLB, NHL and NFL began selling their jerseys in stores during the 1980s, game used jerseys also became a hot item among sports memorabilia collectors.

When he took office there were twelve teams in the NFL playing a twelve game schedule to frequently half-empty stadiums, and only a few teams had television contracts.

When NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle retired in 1989, Finks was the leading candidate to replace him.

When the Rush returned in 2010, the AFL signed its TV deal with NFL Network, but the Rush were not featured as often as they had been with ESPN and NBC, averaging between 2 and 3 telecasts a year on NFL Network in 2010 and 2011, but were shutout from the national spotlight in 2012.

When the series did start its regular run, more than 3. 2 million viewers tuned in, enough to put it into the 2nd place slot for the week ( behind an NFL game on ESPN ) and making it the highest-rated premiere in Nickelodeon's history at the time.

When Largent retired, he held all major NFL receiving records, including: most receptions in a career ( 819 ), most receiving yards in a career ( 13, 089 ), and most touchdown receptions ( 100 ), although 15 of the catches, 261 of the yards, and 3 of the touchdowns came against replacement players.

When the NFL began considering expansion to Texas, Marshall strongly opposed the move, as he had enjoyed a monopoly in the South for three decades ( apart from the one-year appearance of the Dallas Texans in 1952 ).

* 1999-Joe Ziemba, for his book When Football Was Football: The Chicago Cardinals and the Birth of the NFL

When Oakland Raiders co-owner Al Davis took over as AFL Commissioner, he began stepping up the bidding war, immediately signing eight starting NFL quarterbacks, including John Brodie and Roman Gabriel, to contracts with AFL teams.

When Rozelle, now NFL Commissioner, and other professional football executives appeared before the Congress ' Subcommittee on Antitrust, chaired by New York congressman Emanuel Celler, two points were repeatedly made:

When the USFL ceased operations following an pyrrhic anti-trust suit against the NFL ( the USFL won the case, but was awarded only $ 3 in damages ), Foster saw his opportunity.

When Jewish,, 314-pound American football player Gabe Carimi was drafted in the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft by the Chicago Bears, he was nicknamed " The Bear Jew ", a reference to the character in Inglourious Basterds.

When the Memphis effort failed, Vulcans followers were forced to accept the inevitable as well, and efforts to get the team admitted as an NFL franchise were abandoned.

When the Minnesota Vikings first came into the NFL in 1961, they picked up Jim Marshall From the Cleveland Browns in the expansion draft.

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

When they applied to the AFL for a charter, the Scranton Declaration of 1901 was the AFL's guiding principle.

When the CIO formally established itself as a rival to the AFL in 1938, renaming itself as the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the ILGWU and the Millinery Workers left the CIO to return to the AFL.

When the AFL signed with NBC from 2003-06, the Rush was one of the most prominently featured teams during the national NBC broadcasts as well as playoff games and the majority of Chicago's games moved to Sunday afternoons.

When William Green's health declined in 1951, Meany gradually took over day-to-day operations of the AFL.

When the AFL reportedly set the expansion fee in the seven-figure range ( allegedly to purposefully discourage the WIFL teams from joining ), the three teams could not meet those demands and folded.

When the Dallas Texans of the AFL moved to Kansas City in 1962, becoming the Kansas City Chiefs, the stadium was readied for football.

When Brereton transferred to Collingwood at the end of 1994 the AFL decided that his 7-week suspension was no longer applicable as it was applied to the club ( Sydney ) and not to the player ( Brereton ).

When AFL supporters nominated an opponent of the General Strike as a DLP municipal candidate in Winnipeg, many others walked out and formed the rival Independent Labour Party.

When Optus Vision launched in 1995, it carried two sports channels: Sports Australia, and Sports AFL ( which showed Australian Football League games.

When the AFL and the NFL officially merged in 1970, the combined league divided its teams into the American Football Conference ( AFC ) and the National Football Conference ( NFC ).

When Werblin signed University of Alabama star quarterback Joe Namath after the 1964 season for a then-unheard of annual salary of $ 430, 000, the Jets, and the AFL, were made ; the Namath signing, and his subsequent stardom, along with a new, more lucrative television contract with NBC, led more than any other single factor to the AFL – NFL merger.

When the Iron Workers refused to relinquish this work the AFL suspended it from membership in 1917.

When the WTUL decided to hold its annual conference at a different location than the AFL in 1905, Samuel Gompers was furious and refused to attend.

When Seven lost the broadcast rights for AFL matches at the end of 2001, Walls was recruited by both Network Ten and the now defunct AFL-dedicated Fox Footy pay television channel.

When the upstart American Football League ( AFL ) began play in 1960, Maule did not conceal his loyalty to, nor his preference for, Rozelle and the NFL.

When Graham played his first NFL regular season game, ( against the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium on 11 September 2005 ) he became the second person after Darren Bennett to play in both the AFL and the NFL, ( Colin Ridgeway played at AFL reserves level for Carlton ), and fourth Australian NFL player.

When Drumcondra began to rapidly expand in the 1870s, the residents of Glasnevin sought to protect their district and opposed being merged with the neighbouring suburb.

When Amenhotep IV became Pharaoh ( circa 1353 BC ), the supreme deity was considered to be Amun-Ra ( itself the result of an earlier rise to prominence of the cult of Amun, resulting in Amun becoming merged with the sun god Ra ).

When the administrative secretariats established by the Paris Convention ( 1883 ) and the Berne Convention ( 1886 ) merged in 1893, they located in Berne, and also adopted the term intellectual property in their new combined title, the United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property.

When Exxon Corporation merged with Mobil Corporation in 1999, the newly merged company ended enrollment in Mobil Corporation's domestic partner benefits for same-sex partners of employees, and it rescinded formal prohibitions against discrimination based on sexual orientation by removing it from the company's Equal Employment Opportunity policy.

When Telia and Sonera merged in 2002, TeliaSonera used a simple wordmark as the logo.

When absinthe was banned in France in 1915, the major absinthe producers ( then Pernod Fils and Ricard, who have since merged as Pernod Ricard ) reformulated their drink without the banned wormwood and with more aniseed flavor, coming from star anise, sugar and a lower alcohol content, creating pastis.

When the company was merged into Beagle Aircraft in June, 1961, the high-wing design was developed still further as the Terrier and, with a nosewheel, the Airedale.

When, in 1982, the Ecologist Party merged with the Ecologist Confederation, les Verts were born.

When Portugal recognized the independence of Guinea-Bissau and pulled out in 1974 due to the military coup of April 25 in Lisbon, the two territories merged and Bissau became the capital of the new independent state.

When Maximilian was succeeded by Ferdinand I ( 1503 – 1564 ) ( Archduke of Austria 1521-1564 ) the separate position of Austrian Chancellor appeared as a Österreichische Hofkanzlei, around 1526, but soon merged with the equivalent office of the Holy Roman Empire ( 1559-1620 ).

When Chandler merged his stories into a novel he spent more effort on expanding descriptions of people, places, and Marlowe's thought processes than getting every detail of the plot perfectly consistent.

When thunderstorms merge, which is most likely when numerous thunderstorms exist in proximity to each other, the motion of the stronger thunderstorm normally dictates future motion of the merged cell.

When this prince succeeded to the throne as Edward V of England, the Earldom of Pembroke merged in the crown.

When Harding bought and merged the Morning Journal in January 1830, the newspaper was moved to South Second Street.

When the George Rogers Clark Council, which owned the property, merged with Old Kentucky Home Council, one of the conditions was that Tunnel Mill would not be closed.

When the two councils merged, it originally had four districts.

When that company merged with DC Comics in 1944, Gaines retained rights to the comic book Picture Stories from the Bible, and began his new company with a plan to market comics about science, history and the Bible to schools and churches.

When Indian Hills merged with neighboring cities in 1999, the sewer issue was described as illustrating a long period from the 1950s to the 1980s when Indian Hills residents identified strongly with their independence from Louisville, but that period ended in 1995 with the sewer decision.

When the government of Jefferson County merged with the city of Louisville, Kentucky in 2003, citizens of Middletown also became citizens of the new Louisville Metro, however, none of the incorporated places in Jefferson County were affected.

When the government of Jefferson County merged with the city of Louisville, Kentucky in 2003, residents of Okolona also became citizens of Louisville Metro.

When the government of Jefferson County merged with the city of Louisville, Kentucky in 2003, residents of Valley Station also became citizens of Louisville Metro.