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The 1971 Kansas City Chiefs season was the franchise's second season in the National Football League (NFL), ninth as the Kansas City Chiefs, and twelfth overall.They improved from a 7–5–2 campaign in 1970 to record a 10–3–1 mark and win the AFC West division championship, the Chiefs' first division title since 1966 and last until 1993.
The first NFL Christmas game happened in the 1971-72 playoffs with the Minnesota Vikings hosting the Dallas Cowboys and the Kansas City Chiefs hosting the Miami Dolphins. Both road teams won that ...
The National Football League playoffs for the 1971 season began on December 25, 1971. The postseason tournament concluded with the Dallas Cowboys defeating the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl VI , 24–3, on January 16, 1972, at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans , Louisiana .
In the Chiefs' playoff loss to the Miami Dolphins on Christmas Day in 1971 (still the longest game in NFL history), Podolak had a playoff-record 350 total yards: 85 rushing, 110 receiving, and 155 on returns. [9] [10] Podolak, who wore jersey number 14, was inducted into the Chiefs' Hall of Fame in 1989. [11]
On Christmas Day 1971, the Chiefs hosted the Miami Dolphins in an AFC divisional playoff game. In perhaps his toughest day as a professional, Stenerud made a 24-yard field goal in the first quarter, but then missed from 29 and 32 yards, the latter with 35 seconds remaining in regulation, and had a 42-yarder blocked three minutes into overtime. [9]
The football world already knows what the Chiefs, in possession of the AFC's No. 1 seed yet again, are capable of – and certainly when the road to the Super Bowl goes through Arrowhead ...
DOLPHINS 20, CHIEFS 10 (Sept. 17, 1972) Don Shula wasn’t exactly thrilled when the schedule came out and he saw that his team, on the heels of an epic playoff overtime upset of the Chiefs the ...
The Cowboys playing against the Dolphins in Super Bowl VI.. The 1971 NFL season was the 52nd regular season of the National Football League.The Boston Patriots changed their name to New England Patriots to widen their appeal to the entire New England region after moving to their new stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, located between Boston and Providence, Rhode Island.