David Rosenthal: belief

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…This officially called AFC/NFC world championship game sounds like a doozy, sounds pretty cool to watch. Some other points to the deal. There will be a single common college draft starting immediately, no more of these separate drafts, no more babysitting, no more ridiculous contracts, which the players hate this, of course. Rozelle will remain the commissioner and Al Davis is going to go back to running the Raiders, which Davis is fine with, that's all he really wanted anyway. Not announced, but included, this I believe only came out much, much later. The AFL franchises did collectively pay the NFL owners $18 million to join the league. [01:50:52] Ben:Over a 20 year period. David:- Yes, this though was an enormous victory for the AFL for two reasons. One, the NFL obviously had the larger TV contracts, that's just like found money right there. B, they had all the apparatus, they had NFL films, NFL enterprises, et cetera, everything. And by the way, immediately, even before they combined the leagues officially in 1970, they formed AFL films for that three year gap.…

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