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The NFL playoffs following the 1967 NFL season culminated in the NFL championship game on New Year's Eve, and determined who would represent the league against the American Football League champions in Super Bowl II. With 16 teams in the league in 1967, this was the first season that the NFL used a four-team playoff tournament.
The 1967 NFL season was the 48th regular season of the National Football League.The league expanded to 16 teams with the addition of the New Orleans Saints.. The two eight-team divisions became two eight-team conferences split into two divisions each: the newly renamed Eastern Conference divisions were Capitol (Dallas, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Washington) and Century (Cleveland, New York ...
The 1967 Dallas Cowboys season was their eighth in the league. The team posted a 9–5 record and won the new four-team Capitol Division. The Cowboys hosted the Century Division winner Cleveland Browns at the Cotton Bowl and won 52–14 for the Eastern Conference title.
The 1967 game was a rematch of the previous season played in Dallas on January 1, 1967, just 364 days earlier. [9] More than two years after football had become the most popular televised sport in the nation, [ 10 ] this game featured a match up that all of America hoped for in the NFL Championship.
The program began on September 17, 1961, when CBS debuted the first remote 15-minute pre-game show, the first of its kind on network sports television.Originally titled Pro Football Kickoff, [2] hosted by Johnny Lujack, the program originated from NFL stadiums around the country with a comprehensive look at the day's games.
The 1967 Washington Redskins season was the franchise's 36th season in the National Football League (NFL) and their 31st in Washington, D.C. The team failed to improve on their 7–7 record from 1966 and finished 5–6–3.
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The 1967 Cleveland Browns season was the team's 18th season with the National Football League.The Browns were back in the playoffs after a one-year absence. They finished 9–5, the same as in 1966, but this time, it was good enough for them to get in as they won the Century Division championship in the first year of play after the NFL split the Eastern and Western conferences into two ...