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The 1964 NFL Championship Game was the 32nd annual championship game, held on December 27 at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] With an attendance of 79,544, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] it was the first NFL title game to be televised by CBS .
The 1920 Akron Pros were named the first APFA (NFL) champions. The National Football League champions, prior to the merger between the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) in 1970, were determined by two different systems. The National Football League was established on September 17, 1920, as the American Professional Football Association (APFA). The APFA changed ...
Won Divisional Playoffs (20–14) Won Conference Championship (21–17) Won Super Bowl VII (14–7) NFL: Yes HOF: Yes: NFL: 2007: New England Patriots: 16 0 0 1.000 1st AFC East Won Divisional Playoffs (31–20) Won Conference Championship (21–12) Lost Super Bowl XLII (14–17) NFL: Yes HOF: Yes
Detroit had won the regular season game 20–7 three weeks earlier on December 8, also at Briggs Stadium, but lost quarterback Bobby Layne with a broken right ankle late in the first half. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Reserve quarterback Tobin Rote , a starter the previous year with Green Bay , filled in for Layne and won that game with Cleveland, the next week ...
John Leo "Paddy" Driscoll (January 11, 1895 – June 29, 1968) was an American professional football and baseball player and football coach. A triple-threat man in football, he was regarded as the best drop kicker and one of the best overall players in the early years of the National Football League (NFL).
1967 was the first year where a pre-scheduled playoff (rather than regular season results) determined participation in the championship. It also marked the first year in which if there was a tie for first place in a division, the division champion was determined by a system of tiebreakers, rather than via a playoff game (as detailed in the 1933 ...
The Eagles’ win sets up an NFC East showdown at Lincoln Financial Field next Sunday at 3 p.m. ET. ... Conference championship. No. 1 Kansas City Chiefs vs. No. 2 Buffalo Bills/No. 3 Baltimore ...
Minnesota was favored by nine points to win the title game at home, [1] [7] and they won, 27–7. [2] [8] [9] Of the four NFL teams that joined the league during the AFL era (1960s), Minnesota was the sole winner of a pre-merger NFL championship.