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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
I caught a bit of the Baltimore-Pittsburgh game introduction sequence. It mentioned the upstart AFL, which then became the AFC. Interestingly, the two teams competing for the AFC championship are not original members of the AFL. Pittsburgh and Baltimore (ex-Cleveland) are actually long-time NFL clubs that agreed to switch to the AFC in the 1970 merger. The other clubs that are members of the AFC but are not original AFL teams are Indianapolis (ex-Baltimore) and Seattle (which came into the league in 1976 as part of the NFC).
(To be precise, ex-Cleveland actually started in the AAFC and joined the NFL in 1950.)
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To be precise, Seattle is no longer in the AFC.