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Date | December 26, 1965 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Stadium | Balboa Stadium, San Diego, California | ||||||||||||||||||
Attendance | 30,361 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Network | NBC | ||||||||||||||||||
Announcers | Curt Gowdy, Paul Christman, and Charlie Jones[1] |
Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 526: Unable to find the specified location map definition: "Module:Location map/data/USA relief" does not exist. The 1965 American Football League Championship Game was the sixth AFL championship game, played on December 26 at Balboa Stadium in San Diego, California.[2]
It matched the Western Division champion San Diego Chargers (9–2–3) and the Eastern Division champion Buffalo Bills (10–3–1) to decide the American Football League (AFL) champion for the 1965 season.
The defending champion Bills entered the game as 6½ point underdogs;[2] the Chargers had won the regular season meeting on October 10 by a convincing 34–3 score.[3]
In favorable 60 °F (16 °C) conditions on the day after Christmas,[2] the Bills shut out the Chargers and repeated as champions, scoring two touchdowns in the second quarter, one on a punt return. They added three field goals in the second half to win 23–0.[2][4] Of the ten AFL title games, this was the only shutout.
This was the last AFL Championship to end the season; the first Super Bowl followed the 1966 season.
Scoring summary
Sunday, December 26, 1965
Kickoff: 1:00 p.m. PST
- First quarter
- no scoring
- Second quarter
- BUF – Ernie Warlick 18 pass from Jack Kemp (Pete Gogolak kick), 7–0 BUF
- BUF – Butch Byrd 74 punt return (Gogolak kick), 14–0 BUF
- Third quarter
- BUF – Field goal Gogolak 11, 17–0 BUF
- BUF – Field goal Gogolak 39, 20–0 BUF
- Fourth quarter
- BUF – Field goal Gogolak 32, 23–0 BUF
Players' shares
The winning Bills players were allocated $5,189 each, while the Chargers players received $3,447 each.[4]
Aftermath
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. Indeed, the fortunes of both teams, and for that matter both cities, would go southward since then. The Bills would not appear in another championship game until Super Bowl XXV when the infamous Wide Right occurred, and would also proceed to lose the next three Super Bowls. The Chargers meanwhile would not appear in another championship until Super Bowl XXIX, which they lost to the San Francisco 49ers, 49-26. Both San Diego and Buffalo presently as of 2015 have the second and third longest championship droughts respectively for any city that has at least two major sports franchises.[5]
Marty Schottenheimer, a rookie linebacker for the Bills, went on to a long coaching career in the NFL, including leading the Chargers as head coach from 2002-2006. He, too, would not win another championship in his career until the 2011 UFL Championship Game.
See also
References
- ^ 1965 NFL-AFL Commentator Crews Template:Wayback
- ^ a b c d "Buffalo wins AFL crown". Milwaukee Sentinel. Associated Press. December 27, 1965. p. 2, part 2.
- ^ "Bills suffer setback". Toledo Blade. Ohio. Associated Press. October 11, 1965. p. 20.
- ^ a b "Bills turn solid gold with $100 quarterback". Toledo Blade. Ohio. Associated Press. December 27, 1965. p. 31.
- ^ Champs or Chumps - Longest Championship Droughts