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The nineteen-sixties were a time of turmoil, vision, and change. TheCold War; the Kennedys; the race for the moon. Personally, it was the decade of mymarriage, and the births of my children: in short, the best time of my life. Insports, too, the winds of change were blowing: goodbye, Bronko Nagurski, George Halas,three yards and a cloud of dust.
So long to the Browns' orangepumpkins, hello to the '!The 'sixties: it was Camelot, it was the Beatles, it was Mare Tranquilitatis, it was 'Aquarius':it was the AFL.Ange Coniglio. BY LARRY FELSER/Jerry Green, a sportswriter for the Detroit News, walked into the press suiteat the Sheraton St. Regis Hotel in New York last springduring the professional football merger meetings.He glanced at some mail on asmall table in an ante room. When he saw the return addresson each of the six identical white business envelopes, hedid a double take.' Ah, hah,' shouted Green.' The terror of Amherst, N.Y.'
The envelopes were addressedto Phil Iselin, K.S. (Bud) Adams, Lamar Hunt, Eugene Klein,Wayne Valley and Joe Robbie. Each man is president of afranchise in the American Football League.
The returnaddress on the envelopes was 438 Maynard Dr., Amherst, thehome of Super Fan, a citizen otherwise known as AngeloF. Coniglio.The Super Fan is hardly arare species. Heabounds in everycity which houses a professional football team, takingvarious forms.He may sit in your section ofthe stadium, cranking an objectionable siren or blowing anobnoxious horn.
There is a fellow in Oakland who cranked hisear-splitting whistle all through the Raiders'record-setting 19-game losing streak in 1961-62.He may be a 'foster parent'to the players, wining and dining them at considerableexpense to himself. There is an old-time vaudevillian, aregular in Mike Manuche's steak house in Manhattan, whodrove to Green Bay, Wis., last winter on a few hours' noticeto take charge of moving Vince Lombardi's household toWashington, D.C.
When the Great One signed on as coach ofthe Redskins.The Super Fan may be atireless traveler, following the team from coast to coast.It is not unusual for the Buffalo Bills to encounter DruggieLawrence, aCourier-Expressdistributor, in the lobby of the Marriott in Houston or theStardust in San Diego on the morning of a game.Slim Leslie, a SouthBuffalonian who works for the telephone company, used tospend his entire vacations on the asphalt apron of theCamelot Inn parking lot, watching the Bills belt each otheraround their training camp.18. But Coniglio does not fit any of thesemolds.He wouldn't be caught dead with a siren.
The onlyplayer he ever knew well was Ernie Warlick, who lived a coupledoors away until recently. Coniglio's driven to Rochester andCleveland for a couple of exhibition games, but that's all.
Theonly time he watched workouts was when his job took him to theNiagara Power Project and the Bills drilled next door at NiagaraUniversity.What Coniglio does is write letters.Hundreds of letters.Buffalo sports writers are his specialtarget. A note from A.F.C. Is enough to make amiable Jim Petersbristle or Steve Weller's teeth to grind. His most cordial penpal is Phil Ranallo. But even 'Honest Harry' Ranallo hung up atelephone on Ange in the midst of a heated discussion over thenew domed stadium.
'I dropped the receiver,' claimed Phil, whocalled back a few minutes later to apologize.But Coniglio's points of order, bits ofadvice and bones of contention are not meant strictly for localconsumption. He has frequent correspondence with club owners,sports writers all over the nation, the television networks,Commissioner Pete Rozelle and assorted public officials.Not long ago he scored a grand slam. He hadletters published inSports Illustrated,the Sporting Newsand Pro Football Weekly, all within the same week.But it's not the quantity of correspondence -considerable though it is - turned out by Coniglio which makeshim unique. There is an oversupply of letter senders whoregularly expend extravagant amounts of invective uponpoliticians, the press, etc.
They are universally regarded ascranks.Coniglio is no crank. What makes him different isthe sweet reason and intelligence with which he states his case.He scorns abuse, or at least crude abuse. His weapons are politesarcasm, a finely-tuned sense of indignation, an accountant'shead for remembering figures and an engineer's reliance onlogic.The last is understandable. Coniglio earns hisliving as a hydraulic engineer for the New York State PowerAuthority.His avocation is the Buffalo Bills and, to atleast an equal degree, the American Football League.He views the Bills' current dilemma more insorrow than in anger. To him, the team's downfall can be tracedto one dark day in March of 1967 when the Bills announced theyhad acquired split end Art Powell and quarterback Tom Flores forsplit end Glenn Bass and a quarterback named Daryle Lamonica.Angelo's letters descended upon the local paperswithin 24 hours after the trade had been made, predicting direthings for the Bills. Nothing has happened since to cause him tochange his mind.It was Lamonica's duel with Jack Kemp for the No.1 quarterbacking job on the Bills which inspired Coniglio tobecome a letter-writing regular back in 1963.Not long ago he wrote to the Bills, pointed outthat Kemp's 1969 statistics - completion percentages, number oftouchdown passes, number of interceptions, etc.-were roughlyequivalent to his statistics in 1964 when the Bills werechampions.'
I wasn't trying to make any case for Kemp'sperformance that year,' says Coniglio. 'I was trying to pointout to the Bills that he was as bad in 1964 as he is now.'
But since the trade made the Kemp-Lamonica argument a mutepoint, Coniglio's real passion has been theretention of the AFL's identity.He was in AlDavis' corner when that George S. Patton of acommissioner was shooting it out with theNational League in pro football's version ofthe OKCorral.He views theAFL's merger with the older league with all theapproval Winston Churchill felt toward NevilleChamberlain's diplomacy in Munich.A considerablechunk of Coniglio's spending money was sunk intopostage and stationery for his one-man crusadeto win the AFL's dovish owners to his way ofthinking. The nameAmerican Football League will be lost foreverafter this year,' he says sadly. 'The wholething will be diluted under one name, theNational Football League. I'll bet the name'American Conference' (which that part of theNFL housing the old AFL teams will take nextseason) will be gone in a few years.' Remember whenthe old All-America Conference was eaten up bythe NFL in 1950? Well they had an American andNational Conference, too, but in a couple ofyears they were the Eastern and WesternDivisions.'
Everybody's beenwaiting for a long time to see the APL all-starsplay the NFL all-stars. When it finallyhappens, they'll probably call it the Pro Bowl,just as if it was the NFL West vs. The NFLEast.' The unkindest cutof all for Ange came last August, when the APLGuide book came off the presses.' Look throughit,' he commands.
'Notice something missing?I'll tell you what's missing. The old APL eagle,the league's symbol since it started. They evensurrendered that a year ahead of time.' But while the APLmay die at 410 Park Ave. the headquarters ofpro football - and on the nation's sports pages,it will live in the Coniglio's comfortablelittle cape cod on Maynard Dr.Seated at hiskitchen table, Angelo furiously dispatches hisletters. One to the people at Dinty Moore'scorned beef, informing them he will no longerconsume their product (which he loves) becausethey have formed an unholy alliance with NFLProperties.
Ditto for Chase and Sanborn coffee.A couple more aresent to Chrysler and TWA for continuing theirsponsorship of APL telecasts on NBC.NBC itself is a regular on the Coniglio mailing list.Ange feels that the network's sportscasters,above all, people should be the mostenthusiastic promoters of the league. It'senough to make him leap right up off the sofa inhis early-American living room to hear a CurtGowdy mispronounce 'Guidry' (Gidri) - or towitness an Al DeRogatis messing up on AFL lore.Down in therecreation room in the Coniglio basement isChristendom's only 'AFL OFFICIAL FOOTBALL GAME'for children. It's not the creation of MiltonBradley or Parker Bros. It sprung from thefertile imagination of Angelo F. Actually, it wasan NFL Official Football Game originally,'admits Coniglio. 'You couldn't buy an AFL gameat all until recently.
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There had never been oneon the market. But I was determined that my7-year-old son (also Angelo. Three-year-old daughter is Angela) wouldhave an AFL game.' So Ange, an artist of considerable talent, replaced thedrawings of Green Bay and San Francisco playersin action on the cover of the. Game with drawings of Buffalo and Kansas Cityplayers. He cut out the helmet insignias of the AFLteams and pasted them over the NFL helmets on theselection dial, substituted the APL 2-pointconversion rule and performed a 'de-Stalinization'process on every other reminder of the olderleague.Then there are hishalf dozen scrap books, containing samples of hiscorrespondence. Art Rooney, the kindly Pittsburghowner, gave him a lot of encouragement even when theleagues were fighting.
He has some polite, butfrosty, letters from the commissioner's office.Lamar Hunt of Kansas City and Billy Sullivan ofBoston regularly answer his suggestions aboutretaining AFL identity.Bud Adams, theHouston owner reputedly worth hundreds of millions,sends his replies with 10¢ postage due.There also arenewspaper headlines from historic APL triumphs,including the most famous of all, the Miami Herald's day-after-the-Superbowl issue which proclaimed:'Joe Guaranteed It.' 'Friends send me thepapers from all over,' says Coniglio. 'They know I'ma nut.' The strange part isthat Coniglio has been a 'nut' for a relativelyshort space of time.He was a cheerleaderat Lafayette High School in the early '50s.
('I'mprobably a frustrated athlete,' he admits). He saw afew pro games when the old Buffalo Bills had a teamin the All-America Conference.Coniglio is agraduate of the University of Buffalo and used toattend their games on a semi-regular basis. He was really turned onby pro football in the early '60s, when generalinterest in the Bills grew here.He and his wife justdon't miss home games, even though she's had severalserious illnesses and surgeries during the last fewyears.He can be a sterngrandstand critic, but one thing he never does isboo. Not even the visitors.' I feel that everyplayer out there is doing his best,' he explains.' That goes for the officials, too.
And I feel thatif you boo the opposing players, you downgrade yourown competition.' Talk of the Billsleaving Buffalo some time ago sank him into a stateof depression. 'It would destroy my world,' he says.If that had happened,there would have been no chance of him following.More than a Bills' fan, he is a Buffalo fan.' A few years ago Iwas walking down a street in Sacramento, Calif.,where I had been offered a good job,' he says. 'Igot to thinking about how much I liked Buffalo.
Howthe area has four seasons. How I would miss making asnowman in the winter with my children. How no placehas anything to compare with our autumn.' I really love thisarea.'
This may be a winterof discontent for Coniglio, with the Bills finishinga disappointing season and the AFL heading intooblivion. But he still has some second effort.' I was thinking theother night,' he said recently. 'I could copyrightthe AFL insignia and make it mine.' Then another thought came to me.
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Thenineteen-sixties were a time of turmoil,vision, and change. The Cold War; the Kennedys; the race for the moon. Personally, it was the decade of mymarriage, and the births of my children: in short, the best time of my life.
Insports, too, the winds of change were blowing: goodbye, Bronko Nagurski, George Halas,three yards and a cloud of dust. So long to the Browns' orangepumpkins, hello to the!The 'sixties: it was Camelot, it was theBeatles, it was Mare Tranquilitatis, it was 'Aquarius': it was the AFL. December 2004.
Of all theleaguesthat have attempted to challenge the dominanceof an established league, the American FootballLeague was the only one to be truly successful.The American Football League was the only leaguein North American pro sports ever to have mergedwith another major league and have all its teamscontinue to exist. No AFL teams folded and onlytwo teams changed cities during the league's10-year existence. Further, the league thatmerged with it adopted many of the innovativeon- and off-field elements introduced by theAFL, including names on player jerseys, officialscoreboard clocks and gate and revenue sharing.The AFL's challenge to the NFL also madepossible the only four World Championship Gamesever played between the champions of two majorfootball leagues.' S vision brought a newProfessionalFootball league not only toCalifornia and New York, but to parts of thenation that did not previously have the sport:New England, Colorado and Texas.
It would laterbe brought to Missouri and Florida. Review of SHOWTIME series onThe History of the AFL'Encyclopedia':!AFLLaws ofProcedureAFLRefsAFLCoaches& Staff.Bob Carroll NFL Apologist PFRA FootballHistoryAFL Cards:Remember the AFL'sMoreAFLCards:Dan Austin's Virtual CardCollection.Dan Austin's Virtual CardCollection:ChrisHolmes'AFLGameProgramsC O L O R F U LAFL Memorabilia:©AFLFOOTBALL.COLOR BY NUMBER'AFL HelmetsTHIS SPACEAVAILABLEAFL Footballs:OriginalAFL Logos, Decals, andHelmet MotifsDownloadableAFL ImagesNEWTee-Shirts, caps, etc. With AFL logosStunning detailedminiatures ofAFL playersThe Original AFL(1960 - 1969)FantasyFootballLeagueTheVintageFootballLeagueTheAFL'sMOUNTRUSHMOREabout theAmerican Football LeagueAmerican Football LeagueChampionshipsand Post-Season Appearances.AFLTeamChampionshipRingsNow YOU can buya NEWAmerican Football Leaguering!!! Coniglio Loves the AFL, Per Se'Memoirs of a Mickey Mouse Fan. 'AngeloConiglio is perhaps the AFL's greatest fan.
He has been carrying on a one-man campaign toperpetuate the identity of his favorite league in its merger with the NFL. Mr.Coniglio has collected some of his opinions and reminiscences in an article which he calls'The Last Ten Years' or 'Memoirs of a Mickey Mouse Fan' or'Welcome to the AFL.' By ANGELO CONIGLIOAfter 1970, the greatest success in modern sports history will cease toexist. After 10 years of ridicule and snobbery by the National Football League, the AFLwill strike its colors forever and meekly join the league that called it 'MickeyMouse'.Oh, there will be an 'American Conference', all right, as there wasin 1950, after the AAFC was 'merged into' the NFL (that 'AmericanConference' lasted all of three years). However, the name of the combinedleagues will be the National Football League, and the distinctive emblem of the AFL, whichis artistically head and shoulders above the NFL's dated shield, will be discarded.Football fans who relished the inter-league games and looked forward to anAFL - NFL All-Star game will be disappointed.There will be no such game.
It'll be the 'Pro Bowl' instead. In fact, there willbe no more Super Bowl and hence no world championship game, since after the merger, thatgame will degenerate into simply an NFL championship game.Before the AFL dies, I feel compelled to record some of the frustrations,sorrows, and triumphs of an American Football League fan.ITMAY HAVE been thebelief of the 'Foolish Club' (the AFL founders) that after one or two years,they would all be granted NFL franchises. Had that occurred, this fan would not havefelt much dismay at the demise of the infant league.Thatwas not to be the case, however. The AFL is 10 years old, which is, after all 20 per cent of the time which theNFL has existed. I have had 10 years to develop loyalty to the league.
The AFL foundersnever imagined the popularity their brainchild would attain,and theNFL neverrealizedthat the decadeinwhichthe AFL gained superiority would also mark the greatest increase in the popularity of theNFL version of the game.Not eventhe most avid AFL fan would contend that the overall quality of the AFL in 1960 was on apar with that of the NFL. It was, after all, a whole league of 'expansionteams.' But there were teams in the NFL in 1960 which would have found it ratherdifficult to achieve winning seasons in either of the AFL divisions.We saw strange and exciting football in those early years. The favorite playseemed to be the 'reverse' on kickoff returns. And since there was plenty ofscoring, there were plenty of kickoffs.We saw' who are still playing today, puttingthe lie to that phrase. I don't think the PhiladelphiaEagles,for example, would refuse the services of George Blanda orLen Dawson, or Jack Kemp.IN 10SEASONS of playin the AFL, 232 players have been elected to All-Star teams.
Of these 232, only 25 hadever played in the NFL. In 1960, seven of 22 were 'NFL rejects'.
By 1968, everyplayer on the AFL All-Star squad was a pure AFL player, and only two were 'commondraftees' (this in rebuttal to the myth that the AFL would need four or five morecommon drafts to pick up good rookies).It'samusing that each of the three NFL teams to make it to the Super Bowl was touted by thepress as 'possibly the greatest NFL team ever'. Yet,two outof threeof thoseteams lost to the AFL.Parity was reached in1963! Whatof the first two Super Bowls?
In 33 NFLchampionship games before the first Super Bowl, the average score was 36-11. That'sright, the average winning margin in NFL championships was 25points, but when the Chiefslost by exactly that margin, itwas considered a rout.The next year,the Packers,in anNFL playoff,beat theL. A.(Continuedon Page 10). Memoirs of a Mickey Mouse Fan.(Continuedfrom Page 8)Rams by 19points. No one told the Rams they'd have to wait for a couplemore drafts before they could play with the big boys, but that's what they told theRaiders when they lost by that identical margin.The Ramsand the Raiders were both good teams who were beaten by abetter one. That didn't prove that theRaiders played against 'Patsies', any more that it proved the Rams did.IF THEAFL were notto die, in one or two years, every significant pro football record would be held by an AFLplayer, team or coach.Inaddition, the AFL now holds the majority of individual records in the short history of theSuper Bowl.In 1965, Iwrote to each of the owners of the 25 then existing pro football franchises, suggestingthat a common draft, an inter-league championship, and an inter-league All-Star game werein the interests of both leagues.
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I receivedreplies from all of the AFL owners, agreeing with my views. Only three NFL owners,responded however; Art Modell, Art Rooney, and Carroll Rosenloom. If those names sound familiar, they just happen to be the men who, four years later, agreedto shift their franchises to the AFL.Thatshift was the result of the 1966 merger, which was the ultimate result of the playersigning war between the leagues. The AFL gave in too soon. Why should we have to pay anindemnity to aleague which took Minneapolis and Atlantaawayfrom us, and forced us out of LosAngeles and Dallas?
Ifthe AFL owners had held their ground, they could have forced the NFL to turn over twofranchises in 1966, Atlanta and Dallas.Thenexpansion could have evened out both leagues, and each would have retained its name.A big fussis made over the fact that the 'merger agreement' stated that there must be oneleague, and Congress is always mentioned in the same breath, implying monopoly charges ifthe 'merger agreement' is not followed to the letter. I ask this simplequestion: Which is more likely to instigate charges of monopoly. One league or two?The AFLowners scored a stunning triumph in only nine years. Yet it seems their recent closeassociation with the NFL owners has left themstar-struck. Rather than expressing theirgreat pride in their brainchild by insisting that it keep its name, they stumbled over each other in their hurry to discard the AFL and itsemblem and embrace the NFL.IN SODOING, they havehumiliated hundreds of thousands of AFL fanswho have watched their league accomplish in only 10 years what it took the NFL fifty yearsto do.So it allwill end. The year 2009 will be praised in song and story not as the 50th anniversary ofthe AFL, but as the 90th of the NFL. And no one will remember the AFL existed,except for a few fans with scrapbooks and long memories.
One of twoPro Football players to die in the Viet Nam war.played in the AmericanFootball League for the Buffalo Bills. It is oftenreported that he was an NFL player who died in Viet Nam, but that's not true.After starring at,heplayed in the AFL, where as an offensive guard, he was the Bills' outstanding rookie in 1968.With an expectant wife, whenhis unit was called to active duty, rather than seeking a deferment, Kalsuchose to serve in Viet Nam. Lieutenant Kalsu waskilled by enemy fire in July 1970, whilehelping defend Ripcord Base on an isolated jungle mountaintop nearViet Nam's A shau Valley.A member of theand theBuffalo Bills Wall of Fame.
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