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AFL is a three-letter acronym that may refer to the following: TLA is a three-lettered abbreviation for Three-Letter Abbreviation. ...


Sports leagues

  • Australian Football League, an Australian rules football competition in Australia
  • Austrian Football League, an American football league in Austria
  • Arena Football League, an American indoor football league
  • American Football League (AFL), name shared by several separate and unrelated professional football leagues:
    • American Football League (1926) (a.k.a "AFL I") - first rival of the National Football League (NFL) that competed in 1926
    • American Football League (1936) (a.k.a "AFL II") - second rival of the NFL that competed in 1936 and 1937
    • American Football League (1938) - minor professional American football league that changed its name to the American Professional Football Association in 1939
    • American Football League (1940) (a.k.a "AFL III") - third rival of the NFL that competed in 1940 and 1941
    • American Football League (1944) - minor professional American football league that merged with the Pacific Coast Professional Football League in 1945
    • American Football League (1946) - name adopted by American Association minor American football league in 1946
    • American Football League (1960) (a.k.a. "AFL IV") - fifth rival of the NFL that started competition in 1960 and merged with the more established league in 1967.
  • Alberta Football League, an amateur men's Canadian football league
  • Alliance Football League, a semi-professional American football league
  • Alberton Football League, competition in Australian rules football
  • Anti-Football League, an organisation that bemoans the cultural saturation of the Australian Football League
  • Arizona Fall League, American baseball league
  • American Fencing League, a league for amateur standard fencing competition in the United States

This article is about the national league in Australian rules football. ... The Arena Football League (AFL) was founded in 1987 as an American football indoor league. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... Note: There were three earlier and unrelated major American professional football leagues of the same name: One in 1926, one in 1936-1937 and one in 1940-1941. ... The Alberta Football League (AFL) is a semi-professional Canadian football competition. ... The Alberton Football League is an Australian rules football competition in the South and West Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. ... The Anti-Football League logo // The AFL[1] was created in response to a remark made by journalist, Douglas Wilkie in the offices of The Sun News-Pictorial, on Sunday 16th April 1967. ... The Arizona Fall League is a minor league baseball league which operates during the Fall in Arizona at three spring training complexes. ... The American Fencing League, or AFL, was founded on March 25, 2005 in Salem, Oregon, United States, by a group of fencers seeking independence from the United States Fencing Association. ...

Labor unions

The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was one of the first federations of labor unions in the United States. ... The Alberta Federation of Labour is the Alberta provincial trade union federation of the Canadian Labour Congress. ...

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An abstract family of languages is a grouping of formal languages such that the membership of a language in a given family is proven by its sharing of specific characteristics with the languages already known to be of that family. ... The Academic Free License is an open source / free software license written in 2002 by Lawrence E. Rosen, general counsel of the Open Source Initiative. ... Aflac Incorporated (NYSE: AFL, TYO: 8686 ) sells supplemental health and life insurance in the United States and Japan. ... Alta Floresta is a city in Mato Grosso, Brazil. ... AFL logo. ... The Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) is the military of Liberia. ... Image File history File links Disambig_gray. ...

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The Minneapolis franchise formally withdrew from the AFL on January 27 and was replaced on January 30 by one in Oakland, California, owned by a group of local investors headed by Chet Soda.
The AFL expanded to nine teams in 1965 when Minneapolis attorney Joseph Robbie and television star Danny Thomas were awarded a franchise on August 16 for a fee of $7.5 million.
The AFL also adopted the first-ever cooperative television plan for professional football, in which the league office negotiated an ABC-TV contract, the proceeds of which were divided equally among member clubs.
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