Editing Ten-year AFL patch (section)

==History==
During the entire [[1969 in sports|1969]] professional [[American football|football]] season, all NFL players wore a shoulder patch on their uniforms, reading "50 NFL", marking the 50 years which had passed since the league's initial organization.  American Football League fan [[Angelo F. Coniglio|Ange Coniglio]]<ref>{{cite book|last=MacCambridge|first=Michael|title=Lamar Hunt: A Life in Sports|year=2012|publisher=Andrews NcMeel Publishing|location=Kansas City|isbn=978-1-4494-2339-1|pages=206}}</ref>  petitioned the [[American Football League|AFL]] owners to have their players wear a patch commemorating the league's 10 years, especially since it was the AFL's final year.  The AFL owners declined, in [[Lamar Hunt]]'s words, because they felt that a patch would make the uniforms ''"too busy"''.

Coniglio enlisted the support of AFL President [[Milt Woodard]] and of AFL players.  At his urging, the idea was also advanced by [[Jack Kemp]] in a request to [[Pete Rozelle]].  As reported in the ''[[Kansas City Chiefs]]' 2006 Press Guide'', Woodard had a patch made to be used by whichever team won the final AFL Championship. It turned out that AFL founder [[Lamar Hunt]]'s [[Kansas City Chiefs|Chiefs]] would be in the final [[Professional American football championship games|AFL-NFL World Championship Game]], and Hunt agreed to have the Chiefs wear a ten-year AFL patch in Super Bowl IV. The outline of the patch resembles that of the [[U.S. Route shield|United States highway shield]], itself based on the [[Great Seal of the United States]].