Posts from the Pro Football in the 1970s podcast.
On December 24, 1978, the extension of the NFL’s very first 16-game regular season and two more playoff teams resulted in the league’s very first Wildcard Playoff Weekend. Two more teams would increase the total number of teams per conference to make the playoffs to five each. You would have your three division winners in … Read more
My favorite time in pro football history was the 1970s. That was when I first discovered and fell in love with the sport. Everything about the game during the 1970s was new and exciting to me. I remember reading somewhere that the tight end position was the toughest position to play, next to the quarterback … Read more
In 1973, the Minnesota Vikings advanced to the NFC Championship Game, where they played the Dallas Cowboys at Texas Stadium. In big games, regardless of the era, the winning team usually does not make as many mistakes as their opponent. But what happens when they make a bunch of mistakes, and still manage to win. … Read more
The Cincinnati Bengals were only playing pro football for two years by the time that the 1970 season began. As a new team, the Bengals were led by an old head coach…Paul Brown. Brown founded the Bengals in 1968, as he was given a chance to resurrect his career as the new merger led to … Read more
American citizens since the days of Red Grange and the Roaring Twenties have accepted the popularity of pro football as an accepted fact of life. During those years, college football was still king in the eyes of many, but pro football was an infant that was growing in status practically every year. By the 1970s, … Read more