Curated playlist
American Football League teams
- New York JetsThe New York Jets have won exactly one Super Bowl in their entire history, and they won it the hard way. In January 1969, facing an NFL team widely expected to demolish them, the Jets defeated the Baltimore Colts 16-7 in Super Bowl III. It…
- Tennessee TitansThe Tennessee Titans trace their roots to a single phone call that never came. In 1959, Houston oil tycoon Bud Adams had tried and failed to land an NFL expansion franchise for his city. When the established league passed him over, Adams…
- New England PatriotsThe New England Patriots were born on the 16th of November, 1959, when Boston business executive Billy Sullivan was handed the eighth and final franchise of the fledgling American Football League. For the next four decades, they were a…
- Buffalo BillsThe Buffalo Bills have appeared in four consecutive Super Bowls and lost every single one. No other franchise in NFL history has reached that peak that many times without winning it, a record they share only with the Minnesota Vikings. But…
- Miami DolphinsThe Miami Dolphins have played exactly one perfect season in NFL history, finishing 17-0 in 1972 and winning the Super Bowl. No team has matched that record since. But the story of the franchise is bigger than one magical year. It starts…
- Las Vegas RaidersThe Las Vegas Raiders were nearly called the Oakland Señors. On the 4th of April 1960, that was the name announced as the winner of a naming contest run by the Oakland Tribune. After a few days of local ridicule and accusations that the…
- Cincinnati BengalsPaul Brown founded the Cincinnati Bengals in 1967 with ten million dollars and a grudge. "I didn't pay ten million dollars to be in the AFL," he once said. Brown had been dismissed as Cleveland Browns head coach in January by Art Modell,…
- Los Angeles ChargersThe Los Angeles Chargers have spent their entire existence chasing a city that never quite claimed them. Founded in 1959 and born into the American Football League, the team has called Los Angeles home twice, San Diego for 56 years in…
- Denver BroncosOn the 14th of August 1959, minor league baseball owner Bob Howsam received an American Football League charter franchise for Denver. The team played its first game on the 9th of September 1960, defeating the Boston Patriots by a score of…
- Kansas City ChiefsThe Kansas City Chiefs were not born in Kansas City. They started life in Dallas in 1960, dreamed up by a man named Lamar Hunt after the NFL refused to let him create an expansion franchise in his hometown. That refusal set off one of the…