In 1966, the then two rival leagues known as the National Football League and the American Football League decided the champion of each league would play each other in what was coined as the AFL-NFL World Championship Game. The purpose of this game was a precursor to the eventual merger of the two rival leagues. This merger was to take place prior to the opening of the 1970 football season.

The bt sport live stream first AFL-NFL World Championship Game pitted the Green Bay Packers of the NFL against the Kansas City Chiefs of the AFL. Green Bay won that game 35-10 in front of 61,956 people at the Los Angeles Coliseum on January 15th 1967, as expected. The AFL at that time was considered an inferior league to the NFL and these championship games were expected to be dominated by the NFL champions who played in them. The 2nd AFL-NFL World Championship Game played on January 14th 1968 in the Orange Bowl in Miami Florida, in front of 75,546 fans between the Green Bay Packers of the NFL and the Oakland Raiders of the AFL, proved this inferiority theory to be correct.

However in 1969, what also just so happened to be the first year of the new "Super Bowl" the tables would turn and the AFL would gain the respect they deserved, and the legitimacy to play a championship game versus the Oh So dominant NFL. This game was won by the AFL's NY Jets, lead by a young and brash quarterback by the name of Joe Namath 16-7 over the vaunted, and perceived extremely dominant Baltimore Colts. This was the first time the football loving public heard the term Super Bowl.