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The 1969 AFL playoffs was the postseason of the American Football League for its tenth and final season in 1969. For the first time, the ten-team league scheduled a four-team postseason, consisting of the top two teams from the two divisions.
A tie in the Western Division standings necessitated a tiebreaker playoff game, the second in the AFL's nine-year history. The Kansas City Chiefs and Oakland Raiders both finished the regular season at 12–2. The New York Jets (11–3), winners of the Eastern Division, were idle, waiting to host the AFL Championship Game the following week.
The Chiefs topped the Raiders in the 1969 AFL championship game.. The 1969 AFL season was the tenth and final regular season of the American Football League.To honor the AFL's tenth season, a special anniversary logo was designed and each Kansas City Chiefs player wore a patch on his jersey with the logo during Super Bowl IV, the final AFL-NFL World Championship Game prior to the AFL–NFL merger.
For its first nine seasons, 1960 through 1968, the American Football League determined its champion via a single playoff game between the winners of its two divisions (although ties in the standings in 1963 (Eastern) and 1968 (Western) necessitated a tiebreaker divisional playoff game the week before). In 1969, the tenth and final year of the ...
The NFL playoffs following the 1969 NFL season determined the league's representative in Super Bowl IV. This was the last NFL playoff tournament before the AFL–NFL merger and the last awarding of the Ed Thorp Memorial Trophy to the NFL champion, which was introduced in 1934.
The two teams had the best records in the AFL regular season and both had won divisional playoff games two weeks earlier to advance to the championship. Oakland had swept the two hard-fought regular season games between the two teams, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] were favored by 4 to 5½ points, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and had taken seven of the last eight ...
The 1969 Kansas City Chiefs season was the team's tenth, their seventh in Kansas City, and the final season of the American Football League (AFL). It resulted in an 11–3 regular season record and three postseason road victories, including a 23–7 victory in Super Bowl IV over the NFL's heavily favored Minnesota Vikings.
The American Football League (AFL) was a major professional American football league that operated for ten seasons from 1960 until 1970, when it merged with the older National Football League (NFL), and became the American Football Conference. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence.