AFL Spalding J5 - V Football Pete Rozelle Commissioner Signature White Stripes
Item History & Price
Reference Number: Avaluer:18694695 | Original/Reprint: Original |
Country/Region of Manufacture: Unknown | Modified Item: No |
Sport: Football-NFL | Product: 2,000 |
This football is in absolutely immaculate shape! You will not find a football as clean and in the same condition as this one. The bladder is intact and holds air. The football feels like it is inflated to proper pressure. The ball is firm to the squeeze. This football has white stripes because it w...as used on night games to help players visualize the ball. This is an actual game used football.
Please go to the following website to find Info on the this AFL Football: http://www.remembertheafl.com/J6-V.html
In 1966, several NFL owners, secretly approached Lamar Hunt and other AFL owners and asked the AFL to merge with the NFL.
Hunt and Tex Schramm completed the basic groundwork for a merger of the two leagues by the end of May, and on June 8, 1966, the merger was officially announced. The two leagues would be fully merged by 1970; NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle would remain as commissioner of the merged league, which would be named the NFL. Additional expansion teams would eventually be awarded by 1970 or soon thereafter to bring it to a 28-team league.
This is a Spalding J5-V AFL ball with Rozelle's signature. A great piece of AFl & NFL history.