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The 1950 Los Angeles Rams, the best offensive team in NFL history in terms of average points (466 in 12 games, 38.8 PPG), scored 70 points, one of only three teams to ever do so. The following week, they beat the Detroit Lions 65–24, including an NFL record 41 points in one quarter.
The Baltimore Colts defeated the New York Giants 23–17 in what soon became widely known as "the Greatest Game Ever Played". [16] Its legendary status in the pantheon of historic NFL games was again confirmed by a nationwide poll of 66 media members in 2019, who voted it the best game in the league's first 100 years. [17] [18]
Sudden death overtime was finally approved for the NFL championship game in 1946 [7] and has remained in effect ever since. [8] [9] The first playoff game requiring overtime was the 1958 NFL Championship Game. The 1955 and 1960 NFL championship games were played on Monday afternoons, Christmas having fallen on a Sunday in those years.
21. Super Bowl XLV (2011) Green Bay Packers def. Pittsburgh Steelers, 31-25. The never-quit attitude of the Steelers made this a great game after the Packers were dominating 21-10 at halftime.
NFL's Greatest Games is a series of television programs that air on NFL Network, ESPN and related networks. [ citation needed ] It started airing as prime-time specials on ESPN in the 1997 fall season.
The 1958 NFL Championship Game played at Yankee Stadium between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants went into sudden death overtime. This game, since dubbed the "Greatest Game Ever Played," was watched widely throughout the country and is credited with increasing the popularity of professional football in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The 1959 NFL World Championship Playoff was the 27th NFL championship game, played on December 27 at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland. [1] [2] [3] [4]It was a rematch of the 1958 championship game that went into overtime.
The book concludes that "the game had already shown the fast-moving, high-scoring excitement in pro football's future." Red Grange himself later called the game, "The greatest football game I ever saw or participated in." In 2019, for the NFL's 100th season, the game was named #51 on the list of the greatest NFL games ever played.