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The 1998 NFL season was the 79th regular season of the National Football League (NFL). The season culminated with Super Bowl XXXIII , with the Denver Broncos defeating the Atlanta Falcons 34–19 at Pro Player Stadium in Miami.
The 14–2 Falcons came into the game as 11-point underdogs, but managed to overcome a 13-point deficit (the largest comeback in an NFC Championship Game until the Falcons themselves blew a 17-point lead against the 49ers in 2012) and win an extremely competitive game late in overtime, making Minnesota the first 15–1 team ever to fail to ...
Favre finished the game completing 16 of 27 attempts for 222 yards and a touchdown. Levens recorded a then-playoff team record 116 rushing yards and a touchdown, while also catching six passes for 37 yards. Freeman caught four passes for 107 yards and a touchdown. Owens was the sole offensive star for his team, catching six passes for 100 yards.
1998 NFL season; NFL on television in the 1990s; A. 1998 All-Pro Team; C. The Catch II; D. 1998 NFL draft; N. 1998 NFC Championship Game; P. 1998–99 NFL playoffs ...
Denver claimed it gave them no competitive advantage. The team was subsequently fined nearly $2 million and were forced to give up two third-round picks in the 2002 and 2005 drafts. [1] [2] In 2007, the 1998 Broncos were ranked as the 12th greatest Super Bowl champions on the NFL Network's documentary series America's Game: The Super Bowl ...
July 1 – The NBA locked out its players and the season was put on hold for the next 6½ months and the season began under a 50–game schedule. NCAA Men's Basketball Championship – Kentucky wins 78–69 over Utah; NBA Finals – Chicago Bulls win 4 games to 2 over the Utah Jazz, to complete their second three–peat of the decade. WNBA ...
The Atlanta Falcons had a "frustrating" team history, as described by Atlanta sports journalist Terence Moore.Moore singled out the 1980 divisional playoff game against the Dallas Cowboys, in which the Falcons gave up a 14-point lead en route to a defeat, as well as a 6-turnover performance during their 1991 divisional playoff defeat against the Washington Redskins as notable examples of ...
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.