Inspire 21 Inspiring Words for the 21st Century
By BRUCE LOWITT
To much of America, and certainly to the NFL, the American Football League was somewhere between a minor league and a joke.
Until Super Bowl III.
Until quarterback Joe Namath made good on a preposterous guarantee -- that his New York Jets would beat the seemingly unbeatable Baltimore Colts. They did, 16-7.
This AFL was the fourth league to challenge the NFL. The first three died within a year or two of their birth. But this one, which began playing in 1960, had network television money behind it.
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