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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 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.
This victory marked the first time since 1991 that the NFC did not have more Super Bowl victories than the AFC. Notable was the absence of the Patriots, who after making it to the Super Bowl the last three years and winning two of them, had lost in the Wild Card round of the playoffs, being bested by the Tennessee Titans 20–13.
Most Super Bowl wins, 6; Pittsburgh Steelers 1974–75, 1978–79, 2005, 2008 New England Patriots 2001, 2003–04, 2014, 2016, 2018. Most consecutive Super Bowl wins, 2; Green Bay Packers 1966–67 Miami Dolphins 1972–73 Pittsburgh Steelers 1974–75, 1978–79 San Francisco 49ers 1988–89 Dallas Cowboys 1992–93 Denver Broncos 1997–98
The 1986 Cleveland Browns season was the team’s 37th season with the National Football League.The death of Don Rogers, a promising young defensive back who was preparing to enter his third season in the NFL, cast a black cloud over the team as it prepared for the 1986 season.