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The 1969 NFL Championship Game was the 37th and final championship game prior to the AFL–NFL merger, played January 4, ... The Vikings dominated the game, racking ...
They beat the Los Angeles Rams in the Western Conference Championship Game, and the Cleveland Browns in the final NFL Championship Game before the merger with the American Football League. With these wins, the Vikings became the last team to officially win the Ed Thorp Memorial Trophy , introduced 35 years earlier in 1934 .
In 1969, the hosts were the Capitol and Central division winners for the conference championships (first round), and the Western Conference for the championship game. This gave home field advantage to the Central Division winner, the Minnesota Vikings (12–2), which had the league's best record.
The 1969 division races were largely uneventful. All four division winners assumed first place by week five and never relinquished it. The closest races were in the Central and Coastal, where the Vikings and Rams won their divisions by 2½ games, but the Rams had clinched with four games to play and the Vikings with three games to play.
1969: Vikings 1–0: Vikings 20–13 — Vikings 8–6–1 ... NFC Championship Game. Vikings lose Super Bowl IX. 1976: Tie 10–10: Metropolitan Stadium: Vikings
The NFL Championship Game was ended after the 1969 season, succeeded by the NFC Championship Game. [2] [6] The champions of that game play the champions of the AFC Championship Game in the Super Bowl to determine the NFL champion. [2] The Green Bay Packers won the most NFL championships before the merger, winning eleven of the fifty ...
The Vikings have been divisional champions 20 times, most among current members of their division. Minnesota has played 820 regular and postseason games and has appeared in the postseason 32 times. [2] The team's worst season was 1962, when they won two games, lost eleven, and tied one (a 0.154 winning percentage). [3]
That game also saw a then-record home crowd of 60,740. The Vikings defeated the Cleveland Browns 27–7 in the NFL Championship Game on January 4, 1970, at Metropolitan Stadium. Minnesota became the first modern NFL expansion team to win an NFL Championship Game, which earned the team a berth in Super Bowl IV.