Short answers, pulled from the story.
The first league meeting for the American Football League occurred on the 14th of August 1959 in Chicago. Lamar Hunt conceived the idea after being rejected by NFL commissioner Bert Bell for expansion franchises.
Attendance for the 1960 season averaged about 16,500 per game while hovering between 10,000 and 20,000 fans. This figure paled compared to the NFL average of more than 40,000 fans per game.
On the 9th of June 1960, the league signed a five-year television contract with ABC that brought in revenues of approximately $2.125 million per year. A second deal followed on the 29th of January 1964 when NBC agreed to a lucrative $36 million contract starting with the 1965 season.
The agreement was officially announced on the 8th of June 1966 under terms where the leagues would hold a common draft and play a title game between their champions. The two leagues were set to fully merge by 1970.
The New York Jets won Super Bowl III on the 12th of January 1969 with a score of 16 to 7. This upset is considered one of the greatest in American sports history.
The last game in AFL history was played at Houston's Astrodome on the 17th of January 1970. The AFL ceased to exist as an unincorporated organization on the 1st of February 1970.