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The first official National Football League (NFL) playoff game was the 1933 NFL Championship Game between the Chicago Bears and New York Giants. A "playoff" game was played in 1932 between the Chicago Bears and Portsmouth Spartans to break a regular season tie, but is recorded in the team record books as a regular season game. [1]
Staubach retired from football in March 1980 with the highest career passer rating in NFL history at the time, 83.4, [29] and was voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985. In 1999, he was ranked No. 29 on The Sporting News list of the 100 Greatest Football Players, the second-ranked Cowboy behind Bob Lilly .
In the divisional playoff round, Staubach came off the bench to engineer an improbable 30–28 comeback win over the 49ers (Dallas had trailed by 28–16 with less than 2 minutes to play). The win over the 49ers still ranks as one of the all-time great Cowboys wins.
This is a list of the records in the National Football League (NFL) set by individual quarterbacks. For NFL records set by players in ... 3, Roger Staubach, 1973 ...
Won Divisional Playoffs (at Vikings) 20–12 Won NFC Championship (vs. 49ers) ... Club Record; Roger Staubach, MVP, Super Bowl VI; Roger Staubach, NFL Passing Leader;
Wide open in the end zone, the eventual Hall of Famer – Smith was playing in his final NFL game – dropped a perfect pass from Dallas QB Roger Staubach that would have knotted the game against ...
Roger Staubach: 1963 Heisman, Hall of Fame Class of 1985 Hornung: 1956 Heisman, Hall of Fame Class of 1986 Doak Walker: 1948 Heisman, Hall of Fame Class of 1986
Record: 12–4: Division place: ... Jay Saldi 1 yard pass from Roger Staubach ... Both teams entered the playoffs with a 12-4 regular season record.