American Football Day
November 5, 2014
American Football League
26-year-old
sports fan and son of an oil tycoon, Lamar Hunt, was just plain fed up!
After repeated unsuccessful attempts to purchase a National Football
League (NFL) franchise and bring professional football to the great
state of Texas, Hunt decided to do something about it! On this day
decades ago, Hunt launched a league of his own - theAmerican Football
League (AFL). And soon after, on November 22, 1959, the first AFL
draft occurred.
Lamar Hunt
Inducted
into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1972, Hunt was also the
co-founder of the Major League Soccer and World Championship Tennis.
While American Football Day celebrates the founding of the AFL, Hunt’s
entrepreneurial spirit and his love of sports made such an impact in the
world of sports. Lamar Hunt died in 2006 at the age of 74.
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