1959 in Sports - American Football

American Football

  • NFL Championship – Baltimore Colts won 31-16 over the New York Giants
  • August 14 - The American Football League is founded. Play would begin the following year.

Read more about this topic:  1959 In Sports

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or football:

    “During the late war [the American Revolution] I had an infallible rule for deciding what [Great Britain] would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they ought to do, and to take the reverse of that as what they would assuredly do, and I can say with truth that I was never deceived.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “In this dream that dogs me I am part
    Of a silent crowd walking under a wall,
    Leaving a football match, perhaps, or a pit,
    All moving the same way.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)