Sorry, but you are mistaken. The merger occurred in 1966 and the first Super Bowl (1967) was between the Green Bay Packers and the, I think, Oakland Raiders. The 1969 Super Bowl with Namath was the third. You are thinking about when they changed the names from AFL and NFL to simply the NFL.
Sorry, but you are mistaken. The merger occurred in 1966 and the first Super Bowl (1967) was between the Green Bay Packers and the, I think, Oakland Raiders. The 1969 Super Bowl with Namath was the third. You are thinking about when they changed the names from AFL and NFL to simply the NFL.
Maybe you want to clean the egg off your face, and ask the Admin. Moderator if you can get your posts deleted.
There was no merger until 1969. The name changes are inseparable from the merger. The first three Super Bowls pitted teams from DIFFERENT LEAGUES. With the merger, the old NFL became the NFC, and the AFL became the AFC. However, since there were more old NFL than AFL teams (there were only ten AFL teams), three of the old NFL teams joined the AFC: the Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Baltimore Colts.