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[edit] Trade deadline

I've converted Trade deadline from a redirect page to an article stub. I was really, really surprised that there was no article about this significant sports terminology. (The term had redirected to a disambiguation page concerning its purely commercial/financial sense.) However, knowing next to nothing about AFL I'm hoping others can help in expanding the article as regards trade deadlines in AFL, and also correct any errors I may have made in the term's definition etc.. Cheers, A bit iffy 15:39, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AFL Project

I would be glad to help in any way possible in this project. I have original clippings, photos, etc. of American Football League games. I have a private website at http://www.remembertheafl.com/AFL.htm which contains or links to biographies and photos of hundreds of American Football League players. I have a database of American football League players showing every man who played in the American Football League. I created and am continually addng names to List of American Football League players, and creating or updating pages for those players. I am in e-mail contact with over 300 former American Football League players, as well as with several authors of books about the American Football League, and can ask them for clarification or confirmation of their own or teammates' and opponents' performances.

[edit] Suggestions

  • Wikipedia templates like "NFL player", "NFL player retired" and "NFL PlayerCoach" are generally incorrect when the player served in a league other than the NFL. Many American Football League players never played in the NFL: many NFL players also played in other leagues, including the American Football League. I created templates "Infobox Pro Football player" and "Infobox Pro Football player retired", which permit correct display of a player's American Football League draft information, and his American Football League All-Star Game appearances, which were NOT "pro bowl" appearances. That appellation is a convenience by the NFL and writers/webmasters not wanting to take the trouble to identify the American Football League's All-Star games. "Infobox Pro Football player" and "Infobox Pro Football player retired" also differentiate between the player's service for American Football League teams and NFL teams. Joe Namath, for example, played for the American Football League Jets from 1965 through 1969, and the NFL Jets from 1970 through 1976. The template "NFL PlayerCoach" is an incorrect reference, for example, for Tom Flores and Art Shell, and should be changed to "Pro Football PlayerCoach". Wikipedia's "NFL Player" and other "NFL Project" templates also incorrectly show draft information: they show only NFL draft data, and they cite the non-existent 1967, 1968, and 1969 "NFL drafts". The draft in those years was a Common Draft held by the American Football League and the NFL after the NFL agreed, after the 1966 season, to merge with the American Football League. The actual merger took place in 1970, but the Common Draft began in 1967, and was not called the "NFL draft".
  • I would be glad to discuss this with you through e-mail. My address is RemembertheAFL@aol.com. Read my bio at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Felice_Coniglio SugnuSicilianu 16:39, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Does the project cover one AFL, 3 of them... or 4?

Is this project limited to the AFL that existed between 1960 and 1969, or will it expand to cover the 1926, 1936, and 1940 editions that had some claim to major league status? Should it also include the 1938 version that made no such claim (or the American Professional Football Association of that same time period)? Of course, there could be a Wikiproject covering all the defunct professional leagues... but then it would include the fourth (fifth?) AFL which is the focus of this Wikiproject. 147.70.242.40 (talk) 19:19, 25 February 2008 (UTC)