Teams
Boston Bears. Disbanded in 1941, before the beginning of the second AFL season.
Buffalo Indians. Became the Buffalo Tigers for the 1941 season after a change in ownership.
Cincinnati Bengals. Previously a member of the second AFL, and the American Professional Football Association, the "original Bengals" joined the third AFL with traditional rival Columbus Bullies.
Columbus Bullies. Former APFA member which won the AFL championship both years the league was in existence. Quarterback Jay Arnold, formerly of the Philadelphia Eagles, led the team in 1940; when Arnold returned to the Eagles in 1941, John LeBay took over the signal calling role.
Milwaukee Chiefs. Former APFA member joined the AFL without being in an official APFA contest.
New York Yankees. The third major league professional football team with the name, it became the New York Americans in 1941 after a change of ownership.
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“A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not “studying a profession,” for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)