Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/12/84; site tekchips.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!tektronix!tekcrl!tekchips!stevev From: stevev@tekchips.UUCP (Steve Vegdahl) Newsgroups: net.sport.football Subject: Re: Re: Northeastern championships Message-ID: <126@tekchips.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 19:30:44 EST Article-I.D.: tekchips.126 Posted: Tue Dec 4 19:30:44 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 05:53:57 EST References: <13000014@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 23 > The AFL may have had one, I'm not sure, in its > early years, since the top team in each division would play the #2 > team in the other division in the first round, making all-eastern > title games possible. I believe that such a playoff format was in effect only in 1969, the year before to the AFL-NFL merger. KC (who finished second to Oakland) beat the Jets in the first round, and then went on to beat the Raiders in the AFL championship game and Vikings in the Super Bowl. In the previous year, Oakland and KC tied for first, and played each other to determine who would play the Jets. Oakland beat KC handily but lost to the Namath-led Jets, who, in turn, beat the Colts in the Super Bowl. I'm quite certain that the year before that (1967) there was only a single AFL playoff game, between the Raiders and Oilers. ******************************** Steve Vegdahl NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR Computer Research Lab. typos Tektronix, Inc. logical errors Beaverton, Oregon actions of my pet alligator ********************************