8h 42min, jan 26, 1996 y - AFL-NFL World Championship Game
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On June 8, 1996, the AFL-NFL announced that they were going to merge together and the winner of each leagues championship game would meet in a final game to determine the world football champion. AFL founder and Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt jokingly referred to the proposed game as the Super Bowl, after watching a group of kids play with a toy called a "Super Ball."
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