During an early meeting of American Football League executives, charter owner Harry Wismer named his franchise the New York Titans, stating "Titans are bigger and stronger than Giants". This quote was in reference to the long standing New York Giants NFL team, with whom his team would vie for fan attention. The upstart Titans played under that name for their first two seasons and then switched the team name to the Jets in 1963. Get a nice overview of the franchise's AFL years with this high grade 1961-1969 New York Titans/Jets publication lot of (26). These prime condition pubs take the field in very desirable (average EX to NM) condition, with just (2) slightly lesser. Among the fascinating covers are a couple of programs with Joe Namath photos and several programs with artwork by the great Leroy Nieman, including more with Namath on the cover.

Highlights are: a rare 1960 "The Titans of New York" inaugural year preseason media guide (VG-EX); and a 1961 Titans yearbook (EX-MT)

Also present are (24) different Titans/Jets programs (average EX to NM) with (1) lesser as noted below:

(2) 1961: 9/24, 12/3

(1) 1963: 11/2

(4) 1964: 8/8, 9/12, 10/10, 11/8

(2) 1965: 10/16, 10/23 (VG-EX)

(6) 1966: 10/1, 10/7, 10/15, 10/29, 11/12, 12/3

(2) 1968 (Super Bowl III/AFL championship season): 10/5, 10/13

(7) 1969: 10/20, 10/26, 11/2, 11/9, 11/16, 11/23, 11/30

This is one of ten lots pulled from an outstanding collection of 1960s AFL football programs being offered in our current November, 2018 auction. Each of these lots represents one of the ten teams that played in the AFL. To review the other AFL program lots please see our Football Cards & Memorabilia/Publications category.