Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League - 7 of 15

[white6keys]

WOW,Joe Namath was a Mack,Player,PIMP...... if i was a QB in the NFL i would be just like Namath,fucking Dumb Blonds After Hard sunday Games.....Lmao

[Substantive64]

8:25 - 8:34

EVERY pro sports league starts out that way;anything to gets fans,including the working classes.And many of those fans were always too rowdy,ugly sometimes,but the teams and league tolerated them,because they would fill the stadiums.However,one that league reached a big enough level of success, they start pushing them out.They want to bring in nicer crowds to "better their image",so they raise ticket prices,to please the prissier,richer fans. Pro football did that in the '70s.

[MIKECNW]

What also interesting is going to NBC, the AFL got their games shown in color by 1965 while CBS really didn't get into on a regualr baises with the NFL till the following year.

[misterARMS]

@MIKECNW Wow. I never knew that! I'm sure that played a part in the AFL's success moving forward.