NFL Championship Game Running Thread

[Deskgrunt50]

I can't believe any people actually care, let alone get upset, about a few 2-second shots of Taylor Swift cheering.

Guess they gotta be pissed off all the time in all situations to be "happy."

 

[matt_garth]

 

[BTExpress]

Went down a youtube rabbit hole that took me to a 1967 Baltimore Colts season.

****ing incredible a team could go 11-1-2 and miss the playoffs (while 9-4-1, 9-5 and 9-5 teams did make the postseason).

And the 11-1-2 Rams had to play the 9-4-1 Packers in Milwaukee in the playoffs, because before 1975 the playoff sites were rotated among division winners, regardless of record.

Ice Bowl should have never happened.

 

[HanSenSE]

Weather should be clear in Santa Clara on Sunday. Last of this week's storms went through overnight and none expected until next week.

 

[qtlaw]

Weather should be clear in Santa Clara on Sunday. Last of this week's storms went through overnight and none expected until next week.

Yes! Plus I get to tee it up Sat beforehand!!

 

[micropolitan guy]

Went down a youtube rabbit hole that took me to a 1967 Baltimore Colts season.

****ing incredible a team could go 11-1-2 and miss the playoffs (while 9-4-1, 9-5 and 9-5 teams did make the postseason).

And the 11-1-2 Rams had to play the 9-4-1 Packers in Milwaukee in the playoffs, because before 1975 the playoff sites were rotated among division winners, regardless of record.

Ice Bowl should have never happened.

Colts also got jerked around in 1965, lost a playoff game to the Packers when Tom Matte was their emergency QB. They led 10-7 late, Green Bay tried a FG that was called good even though it appeared to everyone in the stadium that it was wide. Those were the days of the old, short uprights, game was played in Green Bay, home cooking. Packers then won in OT and beat the Browns for the NFL title.

 

[outofplace]

Went down a youtube rabbit hole that took me to a 1967 Baltimore Colts season.

****ing incredible a team could go 11-1-2 and miss the playoffs (while 9-4-1, 9-5 and 9-5 teams did make the postseason).

And the 11-1-2 Rams had to play the 9-4-1 Packers in Milwaukee in the playoffs, because before 1975 the playoff sites were rotated among division winners, regardless of record.

Ice Bowl should have never happened.

I never understood why the league thought rotating home-field advantage among division winners ever made sense. The undefeated Dolphins had to go to Pittsburgh the week after the Steelers won the Immaculate Reception game. The Steelers actually had a lead in the third quarter and the Dolphins won by only four.

 

[Starman]

I think the argument in the 1960s was mainly that at that time it it was difficult to change destinations to transport entire trucks of TV broadcast gear with short notice and therefore they needed the locations of playoff games to be set longer in advance.
It sounded like bull**** to me then and it does now. Do the networks still transport complete moving vans full of equipment from stadium to
stadium? You'd think by now all stadiums would be wired with a near standard set of cameras, etc etc.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

So I was at the supermarket this morning and in the checkout line saw that the cover story of People this week was "The Real Kelce Brothers." This must have been the first time an offensive lineman has made the cover of that now 50-year old publication.

 

[BTExpress]

I think the argument in the 1960s was mainly that at that time it it was difficult to change destinations to transport entire trucks of TV broadcast gear with short notice and therefore they needed the locations of playoff games to be set longer in advance.
It sounded like bull**** to me then and it does now. Do the networks still transport complete moving vans full of equipment from stadium to
stadium? You'd think by now all stadiums would be wired with a near standard set of cameras, etc etc.

Yeah, but only what divisions would host the game were known far in advance. Actual winners of those divisions could be decided on the last week.

Colts and Rams played for the Coastal Division title in the last game in 1967. Had the Coastal been one of the designated first-round hosts that year (instead of the Capitol and Central), either Los Angeles or Baltimore would have hosted the game.

 

[goalmouth]

So I was at the supermarket this morning and in the checkout line saw that the cover story of People this week was "The Real Kelce Brothers." This must have been the first time an offensive lineman has made the cover of that now 50-year old publication.

Special Meathead Edition!

 

[Typist Clerk]

I think the argument in the 1960s was mainly that at that time it it was difficult to change destinations to transport entire trucks of TV broadcast gear with short notice and therefore they needed the locations of playoff games to be set longer in advance.
It sounded like bull**** to me then and it does now. Do the networks still transport complete moving vans full of equipment from stadium to
stadium? You'd think by now all stadiums would be wired with a near standard set of cameras, etc etc.

I don't know if that was the argument, but yes, the networks used trucks then and use trucks now. Then, the networks owned the trucks and there would be one at a regular game and two at a big game – usually for extra replay units. Today, outside companies (NEP, Game Creek Video, F&F, IMS, etc.) own the trucks. CBS had four in Buffalo, for instance, plus office trailers. NEP has 65 trucks in North America alone.

 

[Starman]

Yeah, but only what divisions would host the game were known far in advance. Actual winners of those divisions could be decided on the last week.

Colts and Rams played for the Coastal Division title in the last game in 1967. Had the Coastal been one of the designated first-round hosts that year (instead of the Capitol and Central), either Los Angeles or Baltimore would have hosted the game.

The NFL divisions of the 1960s were a real bizarro world enterprise.

 

[TigerVols]

So I was at the supermarket this morning and in the checkout line saw that the cover story of People this week was "The Real Kelce Brothers." This must have been the first time an offensive lineman has made the cover of that now 50-year old publication.

They lean towards running backs.

 

[HanSenSE]

I don't know if that was the argument, but yes, the networks used trucks then and use trucks now. Then, the networks owned the trucks and there would be one at a regular game and two at a big game – usually for extra replay units. Today, outside companies (NEP, Game Creek Video, F&F, IMS, etc.) own the trucks. CBS had four in Buffalo, for instance, plus office trailers. NEP has 65 trucks in North America alone.

I looked out of the window of my hotel room the Sunday morning after my reunion and there were four trucks emblazoned with the TNF logo for Giants-49ers at Levi's.

 

[Junkie]

I never understood why the league thought rotating home-field advantage among division winners ever made sense. The undefeated Dolphins had to go to Pittsburgh the week after the Steelers won the Immaculate Reception game. The Steelers actually had a lead in the third quarter and the Dolphins won by only four.

The Browns led the Dolphins the week before with about 5 minutes left when Miami scored the winning TD. Cleveland had two possessions after that, one of which ended in an interception, the fifth thrown by the Browns that day. I think Flacco was the quarterback.

 

[outofplace]

The Browns led the Dolphins the week before with about 5 minutes left when Miami scored the winning TD. Cleveland had two possessions after that, one of which ended in an interception, the fifth thrown by the Browns that day. I think Flacco was the quarterback.

This is why I roll my eyes at the surviving members drinking champagne and toasting themselves as the greatest team of all time every year once the last undefeated team falls. I don't think they were even the best version of the Dolphins in the '70s, much less the greatest team ever.

 

[Batman]

This is why I roll my eyes at the surviving members drinking champagne and toasting themselves as the greatest team of all time every year once the last undefeated team falls. I don't think they were even the best version of the Dolphins in the '70s, much less the greatest team ever.

I think most of them have said that the 1973 team was better.
To be fair, though, they played at least half the '72 season with their backup quarterback. I don't think Griese came back until the second half of the AFC Championship game.

 

[da man]

To quote the great Bill Parcells: You are what your record says you are.

 

[QYFW]

Aren't the 76 Steelers considered by a lot of players to be their best team?