I know people under the age of 45 won't understand this, but I prefer this kind of football. It's all about the game, and doesn't have the huge excess and overhype of today's NFL.

The closest we've ever come to Hank Hill's dream of an all Texas Super Bowl.

Wow, I never thought I would see an AFL championship game. This is a rare gem. Whoever posted it, thank you.

AFL football was great to watch.  So was the NFL.  What a time it was for pro football in the 1960s. The game was so much better to watch then. QBs calling their own plays. No show boating by any of the players.  Quiet referees. No stopping the game to review plays. No idiot fans in the stands. I don’t know if I would have ever become as big a fan of football if I started watching the game that is being played today.

Wow. Len Dawson wearing Dallas Texans uniforms in a championship game. That's fun lol

Thank you so much for posting this. My grandfather was #81 on the Oilers, TE Bob McLeod. He was an incredible human being and he passed a couple of years ago, so having this to watch is just really really special.

I was born and grew up In Dallas. Now I live in Houston. But I have always loved both teams. Love ya, Blue. George Blanda, Billy Cannon, Lenny Dawson ... we don't have players like them anymore. RIP George Blanda and Billy Cannon.

For anyone wondering, NO the Texans were NOT The Cowboys.  They became the Kansas City Chiefs.

Gus Grissom and George Blanda Wow

I don't recall the exact story now, but it was told on one of those NFL Films documentaries about the American Football League.  But this game was played on a day when there were no other football games on TV and there was a big snowstorm on the east coast.  So a lot of people stayed in and watched the game.  It was, indeed, the first double-overtime in pro football history, and the excitement of this game captured the imagination of football fans everywhere.  This game sort of put the AFL on the map, in much the same way the 1958 NFL Championship Game, the first sudden-death game in history, captured the imagination of football fans and sort of transformed the NFL into a national passion.  The AFL's next big TV contract came with NBC, and the ratings that this game got helped push the price tag decidedly upward.

I LOVED the AFL...and the ABA too. Thanks for sharing these with the world :)

I was 8 when this game aired but only remember watching part of it.  Sure great to see those future KC Chiefs playing and the great Curt Gowdy and Paul Christman doing the play by play.  This was an exciting game, not full of three-and-outs and great offensive and defensive plays. A gem !!!!
At least they didn't make the colossal blunder of cutting off the game like NBC did in the infamous Heidi game incident.

I watched this game live when I was in Jr. High School in 1962.  It was a very tough loss for the OIlers.
We thought that we would pull it out in overtime but Dallas won and then moved to Kansas City.

Love the old A.F.L. stuff... Wish that Curt Gowdy could have called EVERY league championship and Super Bowl while he was still here !  I have to believe that some where Lamar Hunt is looking down and smiling, especially that of this writing, his former Dallas Texans (now the Kansas City Chiefs) are to appear in Super Bowl LIV, 50 years since their last appearance and the final victory for an A.F.L. team prior to the leagues 1970 merger. Great Post !!!

The Texans ran for 199 yards in the game, after the game, they kept on running, up to Kansas City

@4:40. Empty backfield 60 years ago..amazing.

George Blanda always said that he didn't want to be known as a kicker who played quarterback but a quarterback who also kicked, Regardless he was one of the ALL TIME GREATS who's career spanned from '49-'75 and went to Canton in '81.

This game is in 1962. The 2 quarterbacks in this game Len Dawson and George Blanda played well into the 1970’s.

This game is an answer to a trivia question that most people outside of Texas would miss: When did Dallas have its first pro football championship?

Game was on ABC with Curt Gowdy and Paul Christman on the call. Produced by Roone Arledge