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The Eagles' 58 points were the third highest total in NFL postseason history, behind the Lions' 59 points in 1957 and the Bears' 73 points in the 1940 NFL championship game. Their 31-second quarter points was the second highest single quarter total in a postseason game, behind the Redskins' 35 second quarter points in Super Bowl XXII .
The 1995 Detroit Lions season was the team's 66th in the National Football League (NFL). Finishing at 10–6, it marked the Lions' third consecutive winning season, which had not been accomplished in Detroit since the team posted four consecutive winning seasons from 1969 to 1972 .
A win over Arizona the next week clinched a playoff berth, but a loss against the Bears in Chicago in the season finale on Christmas Eve torpedoed any hopes of an NFC East crown, leaving the Eagles locked into the #4 seed in the NFC. The 1995 season marked the final year of the 1990s that the Eagles donned their trademark Kelly green uniforms.
The Commanders made it to the NFC title game for the first time since the 1991 NFL playoffs, which were contested in 1992, after upsetting the top-seeded Lions 45-31 in a dominant showing from ...
The Eagles won the next three matchups in 2001, 2005 and 2009, but Kansas City went on a four-game win streak with victories in 2013, 2017, 2021 and in the Super Bowl in 2023.
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.
Detroit Lions (0-7) vs. Philadelphia Eagles (2-5): 1 p.m. Sunday; Ford Field, Detroit; Fox; WXYT-FM (97.1).
This game marked the second time in December 1994 that the Monday Night Football crew came to Miami to cover a game between these two teams – on December 12, the Dolphins beat the Chiefs 45–28. Both teams produced a lot of yardage in this game (381 for Miami, 414 for KC), but the Chiefs two turnovers turned out to be a key difference, as ...