The oldest AFC team's are the "original NFL" franchises that are now in the AFC. The oldest is by far the Pittsburgh Steelersfounded in 1933. Second were the Browns in 1946 and third were the Colts in 1953.
The first AFL teams were founded in 1959. When the league began play in 1960 their were 8 teams but the original 6 were as follow:
Dallas Texans (Chiefs) , New York Titans (Jets), Houston Oilers (Titans), Denver Broncos, and the Los Angeles Chargers (San Diego). The sixth was Minnesota (Vikings) who opted out of the AFL before the season started in order to join the NFL as an expansion team in 1960.
The founder of the AFL Lamar Hunt created the Dallas Texans now known as the Chiefs so it could be said that they were "first" AFC team...
The Seattle Seahawks are an American Football team in the National Football League based in Seattle, Washington. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC), and joined the NFL in 1976.
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No, they are not. But they are the oldest franchise in the NFL's American Football Conference.
The Green Bay Packers are not a Big Ten team. The Big Ten is a conference in college football. The Packers are a professional football team in the NFC (National Football Conference).
The Bears were an original National Football League team that were assigned to the National Football Conference after the 1970 merger with the American Football League.
They're the AFC team. Seattle is the NFC team.
NFC national football conference and their division is NFC EAST
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The Pittsburgh Steelers are an AFC team, but originally they were an NFLteam until they were kicked out in 1969 (and subsequently are the oldest AFC team). They have since shown that being kicked out of the NFC was not exactly the worst thing in the world, having reached 15 AFC Championships and being the winningest team in the Super Bowl era. Karma.
Stoke City are the oldest football team to play in the English Premiership, having been established in 1863.
NFC gridder refers to football teams that belong to the National Football League 's National Football Conference .