Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Super Bowl XX was played on January 26, 1986, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. This was the fourth Super Bowl and, to date, the last time in which both teams made their Super Bowl debuts. [a] The Bears entered the game after becoming the second team in NFL history to win 15 regular season games.
The other two teams that have never appeared in a Super Bowl (Cleveland and Detroit) both held NFL league championships prior to Super Bowl I in the 1966 NFL season. [n 7] Teams are listed below according to the length of their current Super Bowl droughts (as of the end of the 2023 season, after Super Bowl LVIII):
The National Football League playoffs for the 1986 season began on December 28, 1986. The postseason tournament concluded with the New York Giants defeating the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXI , 39–20, on January 25, 1987, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California .
The six-time Super Bowl winner is set to take over as ... Carroll last coached college football in 1983. ... He became the Giants’ coach in 1983 and the Giants won Super Bowl XXI after the 1986 ...
The Super Bowl is contested the week after the Pro Bowl. This schedule has been in effect since an 18th week (and 17th regular season game) were added to the NFL schedule for the 2021 season, with Super Bowl LVI on February 13, 2022, the first to be played under this format.
The Buccaneers became the first team to play and win a Super Bowl in its home stadium, and only the third to play in their home metro area (alongside the 1979 Los Angeles Rams and 1984 San Francisco 49ers). [72] This was the final Super Bowl in the 16-game schedule era, which began with the 1978 NFL season. The following season, the NFL went to ...
The Phoenix area has hosted a Super Bowl three times before – Super Bowl 30 (Jan. 28, 1996, at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe) and twice at the venue in Glendale formerly known as University of ...
The 1986 NFL season was the 67th regular season of the National Football League.Defending Super Bowl Champion Chicago Bears shared the league's best record with the Giants at 14–2, with the Giants claiming the spot in the NFC by tiebreakers.