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The 1967 NFL Championship Game, commonly referred to as the Ice Bowl, was the 35th NFL championship, played on December 31 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. [1] [2] It determined the NFL's champion, which met the AFL's champion in Super Bowl II, then formally referred to as the second AFL–NFL World Championship Game.
The following year, the NFL split into two divisions, and the winner of each division would play in the NFL Championship Game. [2] In 1967, the NFL and the rival AFL agreed to merge, effective following the 1969 season; [5] as part of this deal, the NFL champion from 1966 to 1969 would play the AFL champion in an AFL–NFL World Championship ...
The NFL playoffs following the 1967 NFL season culminated in the NFL championship game on New Year's Eve, and determined who would represent the league against the American Football League champions in Super Bowl II. With 16 teams in the league in 1967, this was the first season that the NFL used a four-team playoff tournament.
The 1967 NFL season was the 48th regular season of the National Football League.The league expanded to 16 teams with the addition of the New Orleans Saints.. The two eight-team divisions became two eight-team conferences split into two divisions each: the newly renamed Eastern Conference divisions were Capitol (Dallas, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Washington) and Century (Cleveland, New York ...
TB12 fired off a game-record 505 yards through the air before succumbing on a day when the clubs combined for an NFL-record 1,151 yards of total offense. 8. XXV (25, 1990) Giants 20, Buffalo Bills 19
Green Bay's victory in Super Bowl II over the Oakland Raiders was the fifth world championship for the Packers under Lombardi and the last game he coached for the Packers. The 1967 Packers became the first team in NFL history to win three consecutive championship games, and the second team in NFL history to three-peat as champions to the 1929 ...
Sudden death overtime was finally approved for the NFL championship game in 1946 [7] and has remained in effect ever since. [8] [9] The first playoff game requiring overtime was the 1958 NFL Championship Game. The 1955 and 1960 NFL championship games were played on Monday afternoons, Christmas having fallen on a Sunday in those years.
Five NFL championship games were played at Wrigley Field: 1933, 1937, 1941, 1943, and 1963. These games were not yet called the "Super Bowl," as the first Super Bowl was held on January 15, 1967 ...