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The 1970 AFC Championship Game was the inaugural title game [a] of the American Football Conference (AFC). Played on January 3, 1971, the game was hosted by the AFC East champion Baltimore Colts who played the AFC West champion Oakland Raiders at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore , Maryland . [ 1 ]
AFC Championship: Cent. Cincinnati: 0 Jan 17 – Miami Orange Bowl: East Baltimore: 17 Divisional playoffs: AFC Baltimore 16 Dec 26 – Cotton Bowl: NFC Dallas 13 Super Bowl V: WC Detroit: 0 Jan 3 – Kezar Stadium: East Dallas: 5 NFC: East Dallas 17 Dec 27 – Metropolitan Stadium: West San Francisco: 10 NFC Championship: West San Francisco ...
The National Football League playoffs for the 1970 season began on December 26, 1970. The postseason tournament concluded with the Baltimore Colts defeating the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl V , 16–13, on January 17, 1971, at the Orange Bowl in Miami , Florida .
1967 was the first year where a pre-scheduled playoff (rather than regular season results) determined participation in the championship. It also marked the first year in which if there was a tie for first place in a division, the division champion was determined by a system of tiebreakers, rather than via a playoff game (as detailed in the 1933 ...
Note: Prior to the 1975 season, the home teams in the playoffs were decided based on a yearly rotation of division winners.Had the playoffs been seeded, the divisional round matchups would have been #3 Cleveland at #2 Miami and #4 wild card Baltimore at #1 Kansas City in the AFC; #4 wild card Washington at #1 Minnesota and #3 San Francisco at #2 Dallas in the NFC.
And then there were four. Both of the NFL's conference championship games will take place on Sunday, Jan. 26. The NFC championship game is first up in the afternoon, and the AFC championship game ...
Patrick Mahomes had more than one reason to celebrate after the Kansas City Chiefs reigned victorious over the Buffalo Bills 27-24. When the Chiefs won the AFC Divisional Round playoff game on ...
The NFL playoffs following the 1969 NFL season determined the league's representative in Super Bowl IV.. This was the last NFL playoff tournament before the AFL–NFL merger and the last awarding of the Ed Thorp Memorial Trophy to the NFL champion, which was introduced in 1934.