Major Rule Changes
- The NFL rules become the standardized rules for the merged league, which included dropping the AFL's two-point conversion. This would not be reinstated until 1994.
- The official game clock is the stadium's scoreboard clock, an AFL innovation.
- Rules are added to place last names on the back of players' jerseys. The AFL had had names on jerseys, the pre-merger NFL teams did not.
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