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From: stevev@tekchips.UUCP (Steve Vegdahl)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: Re: Northeastern championships
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Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 19:30:44 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  4 19:30:44 1984
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>         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.

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