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Los Angeles Chargers, 29 years – Lost Super Bowl XXIX, 1994 season (played as San Diego Chargers) Jacksonville Jaguars, 29 years – 1995 expansion team; three AFC Championship Game appearances in the 1996, 1999, and 2017 seasons. [ 86] Dallas Cowboys, 28 years – Won Super Bowl XXX, 1995 season.
1933–1965: NFL Championship Game. Starting in 1933, the NFL decided its champion through a single postseason playoff game, called the NFL Championship Game. During this period, the league divided its teams into two groups, through 1949 as divisions and from 1950 onward as conferences .
The 1983-84 NFL Divisional Round game began a streak of playoff success for San Francisco -based teams over their Detroit counterparts. In 2012, the San Francisco Giants swept the Detroit Tigers in the World Series, then in 2024, the 49ers again defeated the Lions in the NFC Championship. Previous playoff games.
The 1965 NFL Championship Game was the 33rd championship game for the National Football League (NFL), played on January 2, 1966, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. This was the first NFL championship game played in January, as well as the first televised in color and the last played prior to the Super Bowl era. It would be staged four ...
Two years earlier, both teams had finished last in their respective conferences. Due to the lack of lights at Franklin Field, which were later installed in 1970, the game's kickoff time was moved up to 12 p.m. (noon) EST to allow for the possibility of sudden death overtime , which had occurred two years earlier .
Otto Graham. Otto Everett Graham Jr. (December 6, 1921 – December 17, 2003) was an American professional football quarterback who played for the Cleveland Browns in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and National Football League (NFL) for 10 seasons. Graham is regarded by critics as one of the most dominant players of his era and one ...
1984–85 NFL playoffs. The 49ers playing against the Dolphins in Super Bowl XIX. The National Football League playoffs for the 1984 season began on December 22, 1984. The postseason tournament concluded with the San Francisco 49ers defeating the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl XIX, 38–16, on January 20, 1985, at Stanford Stadium in Stanford ...
GREG COTE’S NFL CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND PLAYOFF PICKS. King Sport flexed its muscles with an average of almost 40 million viewers (TV and digital) for the previous week’s four games, led by 50.4M ...