Game time: Yes, Virginia, the AFL had a highlight show, too (1960-70)

 While the NFL currently restricts the availability of archival footage, including its old, syndicated recap shows, the American Football League, which merged with the NFL in 1970, had its own show, simply known as AFL Highlights.

When the league was launched in 1960, telecasts aired on ABC, which lost the rights to NBC five years later. ABC would get back into the game with Monday Night Football in 1970, and, well, we know that story, of course.

Charlie Jones, long associated with NBC, is the series host. as we turn back the clock to October 1968. The program is bookended by the teams that would play in the infamous "Heidi game" that year, the Jets & the Raiders, and not in a good way....

Rating: A.