Otto Graham, Art Donovan and Chuck Bednarik.
The beginning of the 1960's NFL had gained great popularity throughout the USA, .
Mainly because of having a great commissioner, Pete Rozelle from 1960-89. Pete Rozelle .
helped to organize the first game with AFL (American Football League) and the NFL. .
This game was the Super Bowl , in 1967 between the NFL Green Bay Packers and the .
AFL"s Kansas City Chiefs, Which the Packers won 35 to 10 . The Super Bowl really did .
not take off until the New York Jets from AFL beat the Baltimore Colts 16 to 7. In one of .
biggest upsets in sports history. Rozelle said " The NFL and AFL Super Bowl game .
would make football the number one sport in America" . After years of rivalry these two .
leagues finally merged into one league. They were renamed the American Football .
Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference ( NFC) in 1970.
In 1970's we saw the dominate team era, which included the Dallas Cowboys, Miami .
Dolphins and Pittsburgh Steelers, these teams won more than one Super Bowl in the .
1970's. Also an expansion occurred, more teams were added to the NFL. Monday Night .
Football also began,Which made football world wide because of television and even more .
popular. This was another one of Pete Rozelle's ideas. The seventy's ended with the .
Pittsburgh Steelers winning the fourth Super Bowl of the decade.
The NFL exploded in the 1980's . They became the number one sport in American ,.
because baseball had so many strikes and labor problems, people were turned off to .
baseball and went on too football. Another League came on the scene in 1980's called .
USFL( United States Football League) which started stealing some of the college talent .
from the NFL like Steve Young, Reggie White and Jim Kelly all are future Hall of .
Famers.This league had financial problems and could not continue . So the players they .
had went to the NFL. In 1988 NFL had a strike that lasted for thirteen games.
