1965 American Football League Championship Game
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| Date | December 26, 1965 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Balboa Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | San Diego, CA | ||||||||||||||||||
Buffalo Bills 23, San Diego Chargers 0
- December 26, 1965 at Balboa Stadium, San Diego, California
Scoring
- BUF - Warlick 18 pass from Kemp (Gogolak kick)
- BUF - Byrd 74 punt return (Gogolak kick)
- BUF - Field goal Gogolak 11
- BUF - Field goal Gogolak 39
- BUF - Field goal Gogolak 32
[edit] Trivia
This game marked the last time that a final pro football championship was decided in December, within the same calendar year as the regular season games. The following season would conclude with the first Super Bowl played in January 1967.
This is the last professional American football championship game to have been won by a team from Buffalo, New York, as well as the last of any major league team from the city.
Rookie linebacker Marty Schottenheimer went on to a long coaching career in the NFL. He, too, would not win another championship in his career until the 2011 UFL Championship Game.
