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The 1977 season is considered the last season of the "Dead Ball Era" of professional football (1970 to 1977). The 17.2 average points scored per team per game was the lowest since 1942, and it was the only post-merger NFL season where no player surpassed 1,000 receiving yards. For 1978, the league made significant changes to allow greater ...
The National Football League playoffs for the 1977 season began on December 24, 1977. The postseason tournament concluded with the Dallas Cowboys defeating the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XII , 27–10, on January 15, 1978, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans , Louisiana .
The NFL attempted to remedy this by basing non-division conference opponents upon position in the preceding season, so that most non-division conference games would be played between teams finishing in the same position during the preceding season. Unlike between 1970 and 1977, there would be no rotary schedule for non-division games within a ...
The 1977 St. Louis Cardinals season was the franchise’s 56th year with the National Football League and the 18th season in St. Louis. This was the final season in St Louis for head coach Don Coryell who began coaching the San Diego Chargers the following year.
The Rams playing against the Vikings in the 1977 NFC Divisional Playoffs. The 1977 Los Angeles Rams season was the team's 40th year with the National Football League and the 32nd season in Los Angeles. Hobbled by chronic knee woes, quarterback Joe Namath was waived by the New York Jets after the 1976 season, after they were unable to trade him ...
In 1977, the NFL played its final 14-game season, across a footprint that looks unrecognizable to the modern eye. ... In 1993, an ill-fated double-bye schedule made for an 18-week regular season ...
1977 NFL season; NFL on television in the 1970s; A. 1977 All-Pro Team; D. 1977 NFL draft; G. Ghost to the Post; P. 1977–78 NFL playoffs; 1978 Pro Bowl; S. Super ...
The 1977 Buffalo Bills season was the franchise's 18th season, and their eighth in the National Football League. The team posted a losing record for the second-consecutive season, and missed the postseason for the third season. Buffalo started the season with four consecutive losses, and failed to win consecutive games.