David Rosenthal

And boy, that would be a super event for television.

Some other points to the deal.

There will be a single common college draft starting immediately.

No more of these separate drafts, no more babysitting, no more ridiculous contracts, which the players hate this, of course.

Roselle will remain the commissioner and Al Davis is going to go back to running the Raiders.

which Davis is fine with.

That's all he really wanted anyway.

Not announced, but included, this, I believe, only came out much, much later.

The AFL franchises did collectively pay the NFL owners $18 million to join the league.

Yes.

This, though, was an enormous victory for the AFL for two reasons.

One, the NFL obviously had the larger TV contracts, so that's just like found money right there.

B, they had all the apparatus.

They had NFL films, NFL enterprises, etc., everything.

So those are both in themselves huge reasons why paying only $18 million was a win for the AFL.

The even bigger reason, when the negotiation started between Schramm and Lamar, the NFL's initial asking price was $50 million per team from the AFL as franchise fees.

So to go from $50 million per team to $18 million total paid over 20 years...

All thanks to Al Davis.

The AFL owners owed Al Davis a big glass of champagne, shall we say.

Right.