American Football League: A Case Study

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The Bills originally to the American Football League (AFL) , where they won two league championships (1964,1965). Later , while playing in the NFL, they represented the American Football Conference (AFC) in a record four consecutive Super bowls (1991-1994), losing each one. The bills have won ten division championships in the AFL East. The club joined the NFL as a result of the AFL NFL merger of the 1970 season. The team got new players on the team in 2014 including, QB jack kemp, FB cookie Gilchrist, G bob kalsu, RB o. j. simpson, DE bruce simth, and WR andre

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