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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the American Football League

If not for the visionary innovations of Lamar Hunt, without the creation of the American Football League, America's de facto national holiday -- Super Sunday -- would not have come to fruition.

The game fans now know as the Super Bowl was just one of a number of profound changes the AFL helped bring to the game of football. That begs the question: Without Hunt, where would pro football be today?