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The Super Bowl — the NFL's championship game — pits the winner of the American Football ... Super Bowl XVI: San Francisco 49ers 26, Cincinnati ... Super Bowl XI: Oakland Raiders 32, Minnesota ...
The playoff game against the Dolphins is known in NFL lore as the Sea of Hands game in which running back Clarence Davis caught a late 4th-quarter touchdown amid three Miami defenders to win 28–26 and end the Dolphins' chances of a three-peat and a fourth consecutive Super Bowl appearance. Oakland Raiders Super Bowl XI ring
The Pittsburgh Steelers won two consecutive Super Bowls (IX and X); the following season they were eliminated in the AFC Championship Game by the eventual Super Bowl XI champion Oakland Raiders. They also won two more consecutive Super Bowls (XIII and XIV) for four titles in six seasons.
1 As the 49ers and Raiders are in the NFC and AFC respectively, the only way the two teams could meet in a postseason game is if both teams made the Super Bowl. This has not yet happened as of 2023. 2 The Raiders played in Oakland from 1960 to 1981 and from 1995 to 2019. 3 The Raiders played in Los Angeles from 1982 to 1994.
Roger Craig's late fumble is what most remember when the 49ers lost at home to the Giants 15-13 on New York's field goal on the final play of the NFC championship game during the 1990 season.
Giants also went on to win their first two Super Bowl championships both seasons. The 49ers defeated the Giants 44–3 in 1993 in the divisional round. [294] In the 2002 NFC wildcard game, the Giants were ahead 38–14 late in the third quarter; however, the 49ers came back from the 24-point deficit to beat the Giants with a 39–38 victory.
Until the Jacksonville Jaguars' appearance in the 2017 AFC championship game, this was the last conference title game to feature a team from Florida. This was also the Buccaneers' last NFC championship appearance until 2020. This was the first NFC Championship game ever to not feature either the Cowboys, Redskins, 49ers, Rams, Packers, or Vikings.
The expectations were understandable: The Raiders had gone 12–2 during their regular season, had appeared in four of the previous seven AFC/AFL Championship games, advancing to Super Bowl II, and boasting the 1974 NFL MVP, Kenny Stabler, while the Dolphins, 11–3 that year, had appeared in the previous three Super Bowls (VI, VII, and VIII ...