The Road to the Merger Part 3: TV Saves the AFL

“Getting Werblin was the turning point.” - Lamar HuntBob Moore

Television and sport were on the verge of creating a symbiotic relationship by the 1960s. In Lamar Hunt's original sketched notes made on American Airlines stationary back when he considered forming a new football league, he recognized the importance of all of the league's teams sharing in what could be gained from a national television