NFL 1966

1966 NFL season
Regular season
season	September 10, 1966 - December 18, 1966
East Champions	Dallas Cowboys
West Champions	Green Bay Packers
Championship game
NFL Champion	Green Bay Packers
NFL season  <1965 1967>

The 1966 NFL season was the 47th season of American football in the National Football League (NFL), which at the time, along with the American Football League (AFL), was the top football league in the United States . The regular season began on September 10, 1966 and ended on December 18, 1966.

In the NFL Championship Game the defeated Green Bay Packers , the Dallas Cowboys with 34:27 and then went to Super Bowl I a. In this, the Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs on January 15, 1967 with 35:10 and went down in history as the first Super Bowl winner .

As a new franchise, the Atlanta Falcons played in the Eastern Conference.

During 1966 the "war" with the rival AFL escalated . This was evident in the draft, when teams in both leagues spent around $ 7 million on new players. In the spring there were secret talks between Lamar Hunt from the AFL and Tex Schramm from the NFL. On June 8, 1966, the merger of the two leagues with 24 franchises was announced. The number of teams was to be increased to 26 from 1968 and to 28 from 1970 at the earliest. Changes to the existing franchises should not be made. It was also agreed that the AFL and NFL winners would play a world championship game (Super Bowl). The merger of the leagues was determined for 1970. The necessary approval due to the antitrust laws by the US Congress took place on October 21, 1966.

Regular season

Western Conference team S. U N SQ P + P− Green Bay Packers 12 0 2 .857 335 163 Baltimore Colts 9 0 5 .643 314 226 Los Angeles Rams 8th 0 6th .571 289 212 San Francisco 49ers 6th 2 6th .500 320 325 Chicago Bears 5 2 7th .417 234 272 Detroit Lions 4th 1 9 .308 206 317 Minnesota Vikings 4th 1 9 .308 292 304

Eastern Conference team S. U N SQ P + P− Dallas Cowboys 10 1 3 .769 445 239 Philadelphia Eagles 9 0 5 .643 326 340 Cleveland Browns 9 0 5 .643 403 259 St. Louis Cardinals 8th 1 5 .615 264 265 Washington Redskins 7th 0 7th .500 351 355 Pittsburgh Steelers 5 1 8th .385 316 347 Atlanta Falcons 3 0 11 .214 204 437 New York Giants 1 1 12 .077 263 501

Legend:

S iege	U nentschieden	N iederlagen	SQ games won (relative)
P + points made	P− opposing points	Championship game	Playoff Bowl

Post season

As the respective winners of their conference, Dallas and Green Bay contested the NFL Championship Game on January 1, 1967, in which Green Bay prevailed and thus qualified for the first Super Bowl. A week later, on January 8, the two runners-up, the Baltimore Colts and the Philadelphia Eagles, competed in the Playoff Bowl. At the Orange Bowl Stadium in Miami, the Colts won 20:14.

			NFL Championship Game
	Dallas January 1, 1967		Dallas Cowboys	27:34	Green Bay Packers		Cotton Bowl spectators: 74,152
				(14:14, 3: 7, 3: 7, 7: 6)

Super Bowl I.

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Super Bowl I took place on January 15, 1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . The NFL champions, the Green Bay Packers team, competed against the AFL champions, the Kansas City Chiefs . The Packers defeated the Chiefs 35:10. For MVP of the game was Bart Starr named.

			Super Bowl I.
	Los Angeles January 15th, 1967		Green Bay Packers	35:10	Kansas City Chiefs		Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum spectators: 61,946
				(7: 0, 7:10, 14: 0, 7: 0)

Awards

Most Valuable Player	Bart Starr , quarterback , Green Bay
Coach of the Year	Tom Landry , Dallas

Season best

statistics	Surname	team	value
fit yards	Sonny Jurgensen	Washington	3,209
yards run	Gale Sayers	Chicago	1,231
trapped yards	Pat Studstill	Detroit	1,266

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Win 20-14 On Matte's Late Tally. In: The Post-Standard. January 9, 1967, accessed January 16, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Super Bowl I. In: nfl.com. National Football League , accessed January 15, 2018 . 
3. ↑ 1966 NFL Leaders and Leaderboards - Pro-Football-Reference.com. In: pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved August 26, 2019 .