Sports' Forgotten Heroes

Sports' Forgotten Heroes


67: AAFC-NFL

October 15, 2019

Long before the AAF, XFL, WLAF, USFL and AFL, there was the AAFC, the All America Football Conference, a league that gave us the Cleveland Browns and San Francisco 49’ers. Stars like Otto Graham, Joe Perry and Y.A. Tittle. A league that struck so much fear into the NFL, the NFL agreed to absorb a few AAFC teams instead of competing against them. Gary Webster author of, “The League That Didn’t Exist: The All America Football Conference, 1946-1949,” joins the podcast for a special extended edition of