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Several National Football League (NFL) games and plays throughout its history have been given names by the media, football fans, and as part of an NFL team's lore as a result of a distinctive play associated with the game, as a result of a unique outcome of or circumstance behind the game, or for other reasons that make the game notable.
The Drive was an offensive series in the fourth quarter of the 1986 AFC Championship Game played on January 11, 1987, at Cleveland Municipal Stadium between the Denver Broncos and Cleveland Browns. Broncos quarterback John Elway, in a span of 5 minutes and 2 seconds, led his team 98 yards in 15 plays to tie the game with 37 seconds left in ...
1995 San Diego Chargers–New York Giants game; 2006 Chicago Bears–Arizona Cardinals game; 2007 New England Patriots–New York Giants game; 2018 Kansas City Chiefs–Los Angeles Rams game; 2021 Tampa Bay Buccaneers–New England Patriots game; 2022 Indianapolis Colts–Minnesota Vikings game; 2024 Chicago Bears–Detroit Lions Thanksgiving game
The 1947 NFL Championship Game (formally: the 1947 World Professional Football Championship Game [1]) was the 15th annual end-of-season title contest held by the National Football League (NFL). The game took place in icy conditions on December 28 at Comiskey Park in Chicago before an audience of 30,759 — well below stadium capacity.
NFL regular season games accounted for 31 out of the top 32 most-watched programs in the fall season and an NFL game ranked as the most-watched television show in all 17 weeks of the regular season. At the local level, NFL games were the highest-ranked shows in NFL markets 92% of the time. [129]
After the Week 1 match-up, the Packers won 12 of the remaining 15 games, including going on a 4-game and 5-game win streak. [4] The Packers secured the NFC North division title and a first-round bye in a Week 17 match-up against the Detroit Lions , who would have won the division had they come on top.
The book concludes that "the game had already shown the fast-moving, high-scoring excitement in pro football's future." Red Grange himself later called the game, "The greatest football game I ever saw or participated in." In 2019, for the NFL's 100th season, the game was named #51 on the list of the greatest NFL games ever played.
In National Football League (NFL) lore, the Freezer Bowl was the 1981 AFC Championship Game between the San Diego Chargers and the Cincinnati Bengals. The game was played on January 10, 1982, at Cincinnati 's Riverfront Stadium , and televised by NBC , with announcers Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen .