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The AFC playoff games were played on Saturday, December 24, while the NFC games were held on Monday, December 26. It also marked the only year since the AFL–NFL merger in 1970 that one conference held both of its divisional playoff games on one day and the other conference held both of its games on the other day. This was done to ensure the ...
The Raiders stormed into the 1976 playoffs in dominant form, with an NFL-best 13–1 record. However, their only loss of the season was to New England, a brutal 48–17 thrashing in week 4. New England finished the year with an 11–3 record, a spectacular turnaround after going 3–11 the previous season, to make their first playoff appearance ...
The 1977 Denver Broncos season (also known as the Broncomania season) was the team's 18th year in professional football and its eighth with the National Football League (NFL). The team had what was then by far its best season at 12–2, finishing first in the AFC West , and making the playoffs for the first time in franchise history.
The 1977 season is considered the last season of the "Dead Ball Era" of professional football (1970 to 1977). The 17.2 average points scored per team per game was the lowest since 1942, and it was the only post-merger NFL season where no player surpassed 1,000 receiving yards. For 1978, the league made significant changes to allow greater ...
1977 NFL season; NFL on television in the 1970s; A. 1977 All-Pro Team; D. 1977 NFL draft; G. Ghost to the Post; P. 1977–78 NFL playoffs; 1978 Pro Bowl; S.
Ghost to the Post is a significant play in NFL history.It refers to a 42-yard pass from Ken Stabler to Dave Casper, nicknamed "The Ghost" after Casper the Friendly Ghost, that set up a game-tying field goal in the final seconds of regulation in a double-overtime AFC divisional playoff game played between Casper's Oakland Raiders and the then-Baltimore Colts on December 24, 1977.
Beginning with the 1933 season, the NFL featured a championship game, played between the winners of its two divisions.In this era, if there was a tie for first place in the division at the end of the regular season, a one-game playoff was used to determine the team that would represent their division in the NFL Championship Game.
Divisional playoffs: N1 Dallas 27 Dec 24 – Memorial Stadium: A1 Denver 10 Super Bowl XII: 4 Oakland: 37** Jan 1 – Mile High Stadium 2* Baltimore: 31 AFC: 4 Oakland 17 Dec 24 – Mile High Stadium: 1 Denver 20 AFC Championship: 3 Pittsburgh: 21 1* Denver: 34