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The Lions led by a point with only two seconds left, but Saints kicker Tom Dempsey booted a then-record 63-yard field goal as time expired to give the Saints a 19–17 win. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In the divisional round of the playoffs at the Cotton Bowl , the Lions fell 5–0 to the Dallas Cowboys in the lowest scoring game in NFL playoff history ...
The contest remains the lowest-scoring postseason game in NFL history and was just the second time in league history a game ended with a 5–0 score. [3] It was the first playoff game without a touchdown in twenty years. [4] [5] This was the first postseason meeting between the Lions and Cowboys. [2]
The October 14 game between the Lions and 49ers marked the final Monday Night Football game ever at Tiger Stadium. Facing huge competition from the October 28 CBS broadcast of the wedding of Rhoda Morgenstern on Rhoda and NBC's November 18 broadcast of The Godfather, ratings for Monday Night Football took a hit for those two contests. On that ...
The 1970 NFL season was the 51st regular season of the National Football League, and the first after the consummation of the AFL–NFL merger.The merged league realigned into two conferences: all ten of the American Football League (AFL) teams joined the Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns, and Pittsburgh Steelers to form the American Football Conference (AFC); the other thirteen NFL clubs ...
With the exception of two seasons since 1966 — in 1975 and 1977 when the St. Louis Cardinals hosted a Thanksgiving Day game — the Cowboys have hosted a game on the holiday, always scheduled ...
Several other NFL teams played regularly on Thanksgiving in the first eighteen years of the league, including the Chicago Bears and Chicago Cardinals (1922–33; the Bears played the Lions from 1934 to 1938 while the Cardinals switched to the Green Bay Packers for 1934 and 1935), Frankford Yellow Jackets, Pottsville Maroons, Buffalo All-Americans, Canton Bulldogs (even after the team moved to ...
The Detroit Lions nearly escaped Dallas with a last-second comeback victory, but a penalty on the 2-point conversion led to a 20-19 loss to the Cowboys.. The Lions (11-5) are guaranteed at least ...
Lions-Bears (19 games): Bears lead 11-8. Lions-Vikings (5 games): Vikings lead 3-2. Why do the Cowboys always play on Thanksgiving? Dallas is second to the Lions for the most games on the holiday ...