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1965 American Football League draft

American Football League draft

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ4571843 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1965 American Football League draft took place on November 28, 1964. Held via telephone conference call, it remained the only draft in major professional football history to be held without a central location until the 2020 NFL draft. The NFL draft was held the same day.

With the first overall pick, the New York Jets selected quarterback Joe Namath.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1965, 1964, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where American, Football and League can be independently traced.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4571843. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1965, 1964 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “1965 American Football League draft” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.