When scavenging through the history of a professional football team, can one game be pinpointed in changing the course of the team's overall success? Like baseball's "Curse of the Bambino," can one ...

The 1965 American Football League All-Star Game was scheduled to be played at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, but when the 20 black players selected to play arrived in “The Big Easy,” they faced ...

As part of the celebration of Juneteenth, the Chargers are highlighting the impact of Earl Faison, a former player who helped lead a boycott of the 1965 AFL All-Star Game in New Orleans. Earl Faison ...

After five increasingly successful seasons and about to enter a sixth, the American Football League awards its first expansion franchise to Miami. The team would be named the Dolphins and would debut ...

*More and more we’re hearing talk of a boycott of the upcoming NFL season if some team doesn’t sign Colin Kaepernichk who is being blackballed by the league and it’s team owners. In case you forgot ...

“Taxi!” Clem Daniels shouted with his arm up as a cab cruised by him at the airport outside New Orleans. Then another call as another cab went by. Then another. “What is it about the taxis in this ...

Flash back to January 1965 -- right smack in the middle of the nation's civil rights movement -- and the American Football League All-Star game, which was to be played in New Orleans. The Crescent ...

They were athletes from the American Football League, invited to play in the AFL All-Star Game, the first to be hosted outside one of the league’s member cities. At the time — January 1965 — New ...