1967 NFL season

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The 1967 NFL season was the 48th regular season of the National Football League. The league expanded to 16 teams with the addition of the New Orleans Saints. The league's teams were realigned into four divisions: the Capitol and Century Divisions in the Eastern Conference, and the Central and Coastal Divisions in the Western Conference. The Saints and the New York Giants agreed to switch divisions in 1968 and return to the 1967 alignment in 1969.

The NFL season concluded on December 31, when the Green Bay Packers defeated the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL Championship Game (in a game that would be known as the "Ice Bowl"). Two weeks later, the Packers handily defeated the AFL's Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl II in Miami's Orange Bowl, Vince Lombardi's final game as the Packers' head coach.

The Baltimore Colts had tied for the NFL's best record at 11-1-2, but were excluded from the four team playoff after losing the divisional tiebreaker to the L.A. Rams. The other three division winners had only nine victories.

Contents

1 Major rule changes
2 Final standings

2.1 Tiebreakers

3 Playoffs
4 See also
5 References

Major rule changes

The "slingshot" goalpost, with one curved support from the ground and offset behind the crossbar, was made standard in the NFL. This replaced the previous year's offset goalpost, which had two non-curved supports from the ground. Before the introduction of the offset goalpost, the supports were directly on the goal line.
A six-foot-wide border around the field was also made standard in the league. Its outer edge designates the closest that non-players can be to the field, and thus enables the game officials to have a running lane to work in.

Final standings

W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PCT= Winning Percentage, PF= Points For, PA = Points Against

Qualified for playoffs

Team	W	L	T	PCT	PF	PA
Eastern Conference
Capitol Division
Dallas Cowboys	9	5	0	.643	342	268
Philadelphia Eagles	6	7	1	.462	351	409
Washington Redskins	5	6	3	.455	347	353
New Orleans Saints	3	11	0	.214	233	379
Century Division
Team	W	L	T	PCT	PF	PA
Cleveland Browns	9	5	0	.643	334	297
New York Giants	7	7	0	.500	369	379
St. Louis Cardinals	6	7	1	.462	333	356
Pittsburgh Steelers	4	9	1	.308	281	320

Team	W	L	T	PCT	PF	PA
Western Conference
Coastal Division
Los Angeles Rams	11	1	2	.917	398	196
Baltimore Colts	11	1	2	.917	394	198
San Francisco 49ers	7	7	0	.500	273	337
Atlanta Falcons	1	12	1	.077	175	422
Central Division
Team	W	L	T	PCT	PF	PA
Green Bay Packers	9	4	1	.692	332	209
Chicago Bears	7	6	1	.538	239	218
Detroit Lions	5	7	2	.417	260	259
Minnesota Vikings	3	8	3	.273	233	294

Tiebreakers

Los Angeles won the Coastal Division based on better point differential in head-to-head games (net 24 points) vs. Baltimore. The Rams and Colts played to a 24-24 tie in Baltimore in October before the Rams won 34-10 on the season's final Sunday at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Playoffs

Home team in capitals

Conference championships

DALLAS 52, Cleveland 14
GREEN BAY 28, Los Angeles 7

NFL championship

GREEN BAY 21, Dallas 17

References

NFL Record and Fact Book (ISBN 193299436X)
[1967 season in details]
[NFL History 1961-1970] (Last accessed December 4, 2005)
Total Football: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League (ISBN 0062701746)

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