American Football League (Alternity)

The American Football League (AFL) is the primary professional football league in the United States. The AFL was founded with 11 teams in 1920, while today it is comprised of as many as 39 teams; in 1970, the AFL absorbed its smaller rivals, the NFL (Northern Football League) and the WFC (Western Football Conference), adding a total of 11 new teams to the AFL roster. The league is divided into five divisions: Eastern, Northern, Midwest, Southern, and Western. Every February, two teams, champions of the regular season and the League's Playoffs, compete in the Super Bowl, the annual championship game. The first game, Super Bowl I (SB-I) was played in January 1967, at the LA Memorial Coliseum.

Teams
The AFL is composed of 39 teams at present, divided into five major divisions as follows:

Northern Division
¹ (Oldest team still playing in the League)

Midwest Division
² (Second oldest team in the League; founded only three months after the Cardinals)

Southern Division

 * Miko Chiefs (1959-)
 * Memphis Cherokees (1981-) – (most recent team to join the AFL)
 * Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1974-)
 * Ocala Panthers (1970-)
 * Dallas Mustangs (1960-)
 * Galveston Texans (1960-)
 * Atlanta Falcons (1965-)
 * Manheim Bobcats (1966-)
 * Havana Cubans (1959-)

Western Division

 * Los Angeles Rams (1946-)
 * San Francisco 49ers (1944-)
 * San Diego Chargers (1959-)
 * Seattle Seahawks (1974-)
 * Lewis Marines (1959-)
 * Denver Broncos (1959-)
 * Phoenix Raptors (1959-)
 * San Pedro Californians (1959-)
 * Pacific City Chinooks (1959-)

Mississippi Bowl
The Mississippi Bowl is the all-star conference game for AFL players in teams based east of the Mississippi River (or in those bordering it). Players selected for the Mississippi Bowl are considered the "best of the best", or the elite, of the League's eastern half and are sometimes referred to as "M-Bowlers". It has been traditionally held at the Louisiana Dome in Manheim, Louisiana every first Friday in March (post-Super Bowl) since the event's inception in 1971.