1968 American Football League season

Two weeks later, the Jets defeated the National Football League's Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III in one of the biggest sports upsets in history.

In anticipation of the merger, all AFL on-field officials wore uniforms similar to those used in the NFL.

With the addition of the Cincinnati Bengals, the AFL's ten teams were split equally into two divisions.

(*) Played at Legion Field, Birmingham, Alabama since Boston Red Sox refused to rent Fenway Park to Patriots.

In an upset, the New York Jets, defeated the Baltimore Colts, 16–7, at Orange Bowl in Miami, on January 12, 1969.