Professional Football is the great game that changed America. This game is the game that the Americans started and other continents followed. This sport has one league, which is known as the NFL (National Football League). The NFL has to conferences one is The NFC (National Football Conference), and The AFC (American Football Conference). Then these conferences are made into divisions, which consist of the NFC East, Central, and West. In the AFC it is also the East, Central, and West. The NFL has an offense, defense and special teams.
             The NFL in the 1970's consisted of a lot of great players, and one of them was Joe Nameth. Joe Nameth was a Quarter Back for the New York Jets (Thorn120). This young Quarter Back quickly picked up a nickname, which was "Broadway Joe" (Thorn122). In 1967 Joe Nameth threw for a record of passing yards, which was 4,007 yards (Thorn122). Joe Nameth played for the AFL (American Football League), which was before an American and National conference, there were two leagues and at the end of one complete year the champions from these teams would play in a game which was called Super Sunday (Thorn120). Joe Nameth threw for 206 yards in his first Super Sunday and led the Jets to a 16 to 7 victory over the Colts (Thorn138).
             The Oakland Raiders, which are an AFC team, really dominated the 70's as far as wins and Super Bowl (Fleischer121). The Raiders never lost more than 4 games in a season in a stretch in the 70's (Fleischer121). Many give this honor to their head coach John Madden in his first year he took the Raiders to a 12-1-1 record, which is 12 wins 1 loss and 1 tie (Fleischer121). John Madden had 8 years of coaching with the Raiders in those seasons he won 83 regular season games (Fleischer121). Another thing that maid John Madden so great was that when he became the head coach of the Raiders he was only at the age of 32 (Fleischer121). The Raiders earned 2 S...