A.F.C. Teams

Description: Sports: Football / Sport Topic: Football Clubs & Teams

Newest Review: ... strong conference in the 1970's winning the majority of the battles. Pittsburgh Steelers (4 times) Raiders (once),Colts (once) and Miami Dolphins (once) all shared in the success. Only Dallas offered some resistance to the AFC onslaught, winning the superbowl twice. In the 1980's it all changed. The NFC ... more

... became all powerful and all conquering with some great teams to rival the exploits of the the 70's Steelers. Today the league is more equal but, ironically, about to suffer a major reshuffle. The AFC is currently split, like the NFC, into 3 divisio...more

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A.F.C. Teams: The weaker side of the NFL. (1153 words)
by - written on 09/04/02 (Very useful, 435 readings)
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I dont know why there was such a power inbalance in the NFL between the 2 conferences for such a long time, but there was. The AFC was so much weaker than the NFC duringt he 80's and 90's until Denver was able to break the curse in 1997 and 1998. Still, today sees a much better balanced league with some excellent teams coming out of the AFC. It all began in 1960 for the AFC or, the AFL as it was then. 8 teams created a rival professional football league to the NFL which had been in existence for nearly 40 years. The 8 teams were: Oakland (raiders) Dallas (Texans) San Diego (chargers) Houston (oilers) New York (jets) ... Read the complete review

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