AFL Franchises

Lamar Hunt (inset top) was denied an NFL expansion team so, with Oilers founder Bud Adams, led the charge to create the AFL. Hunt's Dallas Texans had to compete for fans with the Cowboys, a 1960 NFL expansion team. So he moved the 1962 AFL champions to Kansas City in 1963 and renamed them the Chiefs. Hank Stram's (inset bottom) star-studded team -- he coached six Hall of Famers -- was the AFL's representative in Super Bowl I and beat the mighty Vikings in Super Bowl IV, the last game played between the AFL and the league that spurned Hunt a decade earlier. The AFC championship trophy bears Hunt's name.