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From: archiel@hercules.UUCP (Archie Lachner)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: Re: long punt
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Date: Sun, 11-Nov-84 02:50:23 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 11 02:50:23 1984
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The National and American baseball leagues are separate, too.  Still, overall
major-league baseball records are kept, as well as records for each league.
Remember, this whole question was brought up in connection with the long punt
during the '69 Broncos-Jets (right teams?) game.  I wonder what the official
NFL position is on this.  Is this the longest punt on record, according to
the NFL?  Furthermore, why do we care?  Still, it's interesting to see that
many people don't understand the relationship between the AFL and NFL from
1966 to 1970.

A bit of trivia from that era.  In the first few Super Bowls, different balls
were used, depending on whether the AFL or NFL team had the ball.  The ball
the AFL used was slimmer than the NFL's, supposedly to make passing easier.
The NFL ball was supposed to be more rounded, and thus more suited to running.

The AFL was a league of wide-open offenses.  Remember Daryl Lamonica, the
"mad bomber" of the Oakland Raiders?  They were still in Oakland then, so
no flames on that, please.  I remember the Raiders beating the Chargers
51-10 in 1967.  Lamonica passed for over 400 yds. in a losing effort vs.
the Jets for the AFL title after the 1968 season, the year Namath and Co.
beat the Colts in Super Bowl III.  The AFL had passing combinations such as
Lenny Dawson to Otis Taylor for the Chiefs, and John Hadl to Lance Allworth
for the Chargers.

Anyway, I digress.  Enough, already!
-- 

				Archie Lachner
				Logic Design Systems Division
				Tektronix, Inc.

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