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1964 American Football League (AFL) Eastern Division All-stars
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Photo Courtesy of Denny Lynch, Buffalo Bills

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Bottom Row

Vito "Babe" Parilli

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Boston Patriots

Jack Kemp 16 qb Buffalo Bills
George Saimes 22 db Buffalo Bills
Gino Cappelletti 25 pk, wr Boston Patriots
Fred Glick 27 db Houston Oilers
Cookie Gilchrist 34 fb Buffalo Bills
Sid Blanks 36 rb Houston Oilers
Second Row
Don Floyd 38 de Houston Oilers
Dainard Paulson 40 db New York Jets
Larry Garron 41 fb Boston Patriots
George "Butch" Byrd 42 db Buffalo Bills
Pete Jaquess 47 db Houston Oilers
.Winston Hill 52 ot New York Jets
.Tommy Addison 53 lb Boston Patriots
.Jon Morris 54 c Boston Patriots
Third Row
Eddie Abramowski Trainer Buffalo Bills
Mike Stratton 58

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Buffalo Bills
Larry Grantham 60

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New York Jets
Bob Talamini 61 g Houston Oilers
Houston Antwine 65 dt Boston Patriots
Billy Shaw 66

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Tom Sestak 70 dt Buffalo Bills
Larry Eisenhauer 72 de Boston Patriots
Stew Barber 77 ot Buffalo Bills
Joel Collier Def. Coord. Buffalo Bills
Top Row
Sherman Plunkett 79 ot New York Jets
Nick Buoniconti 85 mlb Boston Patriots
Charlie Hennigan 87 wr Houston Oilers
Bob Dee 89 de Boston Patriots
John Mazur Staff Buffalo Bills
Jerry Smith Staff Buffalo Bills
Harvey Johnson, Jr. Staff Buffalo Bills
Lou Saban Head Coach Buffalo Bills
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Ernie Warlick 84 te Buffalo Bills

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        The American Football League did not play an All-Star game after its first season in 1960, but did stage All-Star games for the 1961 through 1969 seasons.  All-Star teams from the Eastern and Western divisions played each other after every season except 1965.  That season, the league champion Buffalo Bills played against a team made up of all-stars from the other teams.
        Because the games were played at the end of the season, they occurred in the next calendar year.  Thus, the 1961 AFL All-Star game (with players selected as all-stars for the 1961 season) was played on January 7, 1962; the 1962 game was played in January 1963, etc.
         The links below will take you to excellent summaries of each game by Mark Bolding.

1961 AFL All-Star Game: January 7, 1962
1962 AFL All-Star Game: January 13, 1963
1963 AFL All-Star Game: January 19, 1964
1964 AFL All-Star Game: January 16, 1965
1965 AFL All-Star Game: January 15, 1966
1966 AFL All-Star Game: January 21, 1967
1967 AFL All-Star Game: January 21, 1968
1968 AFL All-Star Game: January 19, 1969
1969 AFL All-Star Game: January 17, 1970
          Perhaps the greatest highlight of AFL All-Star Game history came not on the field of play, but in the actions of black players, supported by their white teammates and owners, when the best players in the AFL boycotted the City of New Orleans because of the disrespect black players were given when they arrived there for the 1964 season AFL All-Star Game, scheduled for January 1965.
          The game was moved to Houston in a seminal action in the early civil rights movement in America.  It is still recognized as such, as recently as a March, 2007 article by Evan Weiner on MSNBC.  Another description of the incident is at my AFL Clippings page.

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AFL All-Star Squads, 1961-1969
1961 West Squad East Squad
1962 West Squad East Squad
1963 West Squad East Squad
1964 West Squad East Squad
1965 West Squad East Squad
1966 West Squad East Squad
1967 West Squad East Squad
1968 West Squad East Squad
1969 West Squad East Squad

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