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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vevent" style="width: 26em;"><caption class="infobox-title summary">1970 NFL season</caption><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #eee;">Regular season</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Duration</th><td class="infobox-data">September 18 – December 20, 1970</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #eee;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><a href="/wiki/1970%E2%80%9371_NFL_playoffs" title="1970–71 NFL playoffs">Playoffs</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Start date</th><td class="infobox-data">December 26, 1970</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/American_Football_Conference_Championship_Game" class="mw-redirect" title="American Football Conference Championship Game">AFC Champions</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/1970_Baltimore_Colts_season" title="1970 Baltimore Colts season">Baltimore Colts</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/National_Football_Conference_Championship_Game" class="mw-redirect" title="National Football Conference Championship Game">NFC Champions</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/1970_Dallas_Cowboys_season" title="1970 Dallas Cowboys season">Dallas Cowboys</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #eee;"><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_V" title="Super Bowl V">Super Bowl V</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Date</th><td class="infobox-data">January 17, 1971</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Site</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Miami_Orange_Bowl" title="Miami Orange Bowl">Orange Bowl</a>, <a href="/wiki/Miami,_Florida" class="mw-redirect" title="Miami, Florida">Miami, Florida</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Champions</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/1970_Baltimore_Colts_season" title="1970 Baltimore Colts season">Baltimore Colts</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #eee;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><a href="/wiki/1971_Pro_Bowl" title="1971 Pro Bowl">Pro Bowl</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Date</th><td class="infobox-data">January 24, 1971</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Site</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Memorial_Coliseum" title="Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum">Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below noprint nowrap" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa; padding-top: 3px;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output 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</a></div><b>NFC teams: <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Yellow_ffff00_pog.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Yellow_ffff00_pog.svg/10px-Yellow_ffff00_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Yellow_ffff00_pog.svg/15px-Yellow_ffff00_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Yellow_ffff00_pog.svg/20px-Yellow_ffff00_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></a></span> West, <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:DeepPink_pog.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/DeepPink_pog.svg/10px-DeepPink_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/DeepPink_pog.svg/15px-DeepPink_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/DeepPink_pog.svg/20px-DeepPink_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></a></span> Central, <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Green_pog.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Green_pog.svg/10px-Green_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Green_pog.svg/15px-Green_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Green_pog.svg/20px-Green_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></a></span> East</b></div></div></div> <p>The <b>1970 NFL season</b> was the 51st <a href="/wiki/Regular_season" class="mw-redirect" title="Regular season">regular season</a> of the <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">National Football League</a>, and the first after the consummation of the <a href="/wiki/AFL%E2%80%93NFL_merger" title="AFL–NFL merger">AFL–NFL merger</a>. The merged league realigned into two conferences: all ten of the <a href="/wiki/1969_American_Football_League_season" title="1969 American Football League season">American Football League</a> (AFL) teams joined the <a href="/wiki/1970_Baltimore_Colts_season" title="1970 Baltimore Colts season">Baltimore Colts</a>, <a href="/wiki/1970_Cleveland_Browns_season" title="1970 Cleveland Browns season">Cleveland Browns</a>, and <a href="/wiki/1970_Pittsburgh_Steelers_season" title="1970 Pittsburgh Steelers season">Pittsburgh Steelers</a> to form the <a href="/wiki/American_Football_Conference" title="American Football Conference">American Football Conference</a> (AFC); the other thirteen NFL clubs formed the <a href="/wiki/National_Football_Conference" title="National Football Conference">National Football Conference</a> (NFC). </p><p>The season concluded in 1971 with <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_V" title="Super Bowl V">Super Bowl V</a> on January 17, as the <a href="/wiki/1970_Baltimore_Colts_season" title="1970 Baltimore Colts season">Baltimore Colts</a> beat the <a href="/wiki/1970_Dallas_Cowboys_season" title="1970 Dallas Cowboys season">Dallas Cowboys</a> <span class="nowrap">16–13</span> at the <a href="/wiki/Miami_Orange_Bowl" title="Miami Orange Bowl">Orange Bowl</a> in <a href="/wiki/Miami" title="Miami">Miami</a>, <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Pro_Bowl" title="Pro Bowl">Pro Bowl</a> was the following Sunday; the NFC beat the AFC <span class="nowrap">27–6</span> at the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Memorial_Coliseum" title="Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum">Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Merger_between_NFL_and_AFL">Merger between NFL and AFL</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1970_NFL_season&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Merger between NFL and AFL"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/AFL%E2%80%93NFL_merger" title="AFL–NFL merger">merger</a> forced a <a href="/wiki/Realignment_(sports)" title="Realignment (sports)">realignment</a> between the combined league's clubs. During the previous <a href="/wiki/1969_NFL_season" title="1969 NFL season">1969</a> season, there were sixteen NFL teams and ten <a href="/wiki/1969_American_Football_League_season" title="1969 American Football League season">AFL</a> teams: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption><b><a href="/wiki/1969_American_Football_League_season" title="1969 American Football League season">1969 AFL teams</a></b> </caption> <tbody><tr> <td style="background-color: #FFA7A7;"><b><a href="/wiki/AFC_East" title="AFC East">Eastern</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color: #FFA7A7;"><b><a href="/wiki/AFC_West" title="AFC West">Western</a></b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Bills" title="Buffalo Bills">Buffalo Bills</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Denver_Broncos" title="Denver Broncos">Denver Broncos</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Miami_Dolphins" title="Miami Dolphins">Miami Dolphins</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Chiefs" title="Kansas City Chiefs">Kansas City Chiefs</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Boston_Patriots" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Patriots">Boston Patriots</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Oakland_Raiders" title="Oakland Raiders">Oakland Raiders</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/New_York_Jets" title="New York Jets">New York Jets</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/San_Diego_Chargers" title="San Diego Chargers">San Diego Chargers</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Houston_Oilers" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the Houston Oilers">Houston Oilers</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Bengals" title="Cincinnati Bengals">Cincinnati Bengals</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable"> <caption><b><a href="/wiki/1969_NFL_season" title="1969 NFL season">1969 NFL teams</a></b> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="background-color: #B7D0FF;"><b><a href="/wiki/Eastern_and_Western_Conferences_(NFL)_1933%E2%80%9369" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern and Western Conferences (NFL) 1933–69">Eastern</a></b> </th> <th colspan="2" style="background-color: #B7D0FF;"><b><a href="/wiki/Eastern_and_Western_Conferences_(NFL)_1933%E2%80%9369" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern and Western Conferences (NFL) 1933–69">Western</a></b> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #B7D0FF;"><b><a href="/wiki/NFC_East" title="NFC East">Capitol</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color: #B7D0FF;"><b><a href="/wiki/AFC_North" title="AFC North">Century</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color: #B7D0FF;"><b><a href="/wiki/NFC_North" title="NFC North">Central</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color: #B7D0FF;"><b><a href="/wiki/NFC_West" title="NFC West">Coastal</a></b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Dallas_Cowboys" title="Dallas Cowboys">Dallas Cowboys</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Browns" title="Cleveland Browns">Cleveland Browns</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Bears" title="Chicago Bears">Chicago Bears</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Rams" title="Los Angeles Rams">Los Angeles Rams</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/New_Orleans_Saints" title="New Orleans Saints">New Orleans Saints</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants" title="New York Giants">New York Giants</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Detroit_Lions" title="Detroit Lions">Detroit Lions</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_49ers" title="San Francisco 49ers">San Francisco 49ers</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Eagles" title="Philadelphia Eagles">Philadelphia Eagles</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Steelers" title="Pittsburgh Steelers">Pittsburgh Steelers</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Green_Bay_Packers" title="Green Bay Packers">Green Bay Packers</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Falcons" title="Atlanta Falcons">Atlanta Falcons</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Washington_Redskins" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Redskins">Washington Redskins</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_St._Louis_Cardinals_(NFL)" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the St. Louis Cardinals (NFL)">St. Louis Cardinals</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Vikings" title="Minnesota Vikings">Minnesota Vikings</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Baltimore_Colts" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the Baltimore Colts">Baltimore Colts</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>Because there were more NFL teams than <a href="/wiki/American_Football_League" title="American Football League">AFL</a> teams, three teams needed to be transferred to balance the two new conferences at thirteen teams each. In May 1969, the <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Colts" title="Baltimore Colts">Baltimore Colts</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Browns" title="Cleveland Browns">Cleveland Browns</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Steelers" title="Pittsburgh Steelers">Pittsburgh Steelers</a> agreed to join the ten AFL teams to form the <a href="/wiki/American_Football_Conference" title="American Football Conference">American Football Conference</a> (AFC); the remaining NFL teams formed the <a href="/wiki/National_Football_Conference" title="National Football Conference">National Football Conference</a> (NFC). </p><p>Replacing the old <a href="/wiki/Eastern_and_Western_Conferences_(NFL)_1933%E2%80%9369" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern and Western Conferences (NFL) 1933–69">Eastern and Western conferences</a> (although divisions from those conferences still existed but were renamed to suit the realignment), the new conferences, AFC and NFC, function similar to <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">Major League Baseball</a>'s <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American</a> and <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National</a> leagues, and each of those two were divided into three divisions: East, Central, and West. The two Eastern divisions had five teams; the other four divisions had four teams each. The realignment discussions for the NFC were so contentious that one final plan, out of five of them, was selected from an envelope in a vase by Commissioner Pete Rozelle's secretary, Thelma Elkjer<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on January 16, 1970. </p><p>The format agreed on was as follows: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>1970 NFL teams </caption> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="6" style="background-color: #FF7B77;"><b><a href="/wiki/American_Football_Conference" title="American Football Conference">AFC</a></b> </th> <td style="background-color: #FFA7A7;"><b><a href="/wiki/AFC_East" title="AFC East">East</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color: #FFA7A7;"><b><a href="/wiki/AFC_North" title="AFC North">Central</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color: #FFA7A7;"><b><a href="/wiki/AFC_West" title="AFC West">West</a></b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Baltimore_Colts" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the Baltimore Colts">Baltimore Colts</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Bengals" title="Cincinnati Bengals">Cincinnati Bengals</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Denver_Broncos" title="Denver Broncos">Denver Broncos</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Boston_Patriots" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Patriots">Boston Patriots</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Browns" title="Cleveland Browns">Cleveland Browns</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Chiefs" title="Kansas City Chiefs">Kansas City Chiefs</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Bills" title="Buffalo Bills">Buffalo Bills</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Houston_Oilers" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the Houston Oilers">Houston Oilers</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Oakland_Raiders" title="Oakland Raiders">Oakland Raiders</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Miami_Dolphins" title="Miami Dolphins">Miami Dolphins</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Steelers" title="Pittsburgh Steelers">Pittsburgh Steelers</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/San_Diego_Chargers" title="San Diego Chargers">San Diego Chargers</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/New_York_Jets" title="New York Jets">New York Jets</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #EEE;" colspan="2""> </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="6" style="background-color: #99A8FF;"><b><a href="/wiki/National_Football_Conference" title="National Football Conference">NFC</a></b> </th> <td style="background-color: #B7D0FF;"><b><a href="/wiki/NFC_East" title="NFC East">East</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color: #B7D0FF;"><b><a href="/wiki/NFC_North" title="NFC North">Central</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color: #B7D0FF;"><b><a href="/wiki/NFC_West" title="NFC West">West</a></b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Dallas_Cowboys" title="Dallas Cowboys">Dallas Cowboys</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Bears" title="Chicago Bears">Chicago Bears</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Falcons" title="Atlanta Falcons">Atlanta Falcons</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants" title="New York Giants">New York Giants</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Detroit_Lions" title="Detroit Lions">Detroit Lions</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Rams" title="Los Angeles Rams">Los Angeles Rams</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Eagles" title="Philadelphia Eagles">Philadelphia Eagles</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Green_Bay_Packers" title="Green Bay Packers">Green Bay Packers</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/New_Orleans_Saints" title="New Orleans Saints">New Orleans Saints</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_St._Louis_Cardinals_(NFL)" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the St. Louis Cardinals (NFL)">St. Louis Cardinals</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Vikings" title="Minnesota Vikings">Minnesota Vikings</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_49ers" title="San Francisco 49ers">San Francisco 49ers</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Washington_Redskins" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Redskins">Washington Redskins</a> </td> <td style="background-color: #EEE;" colspan="2""> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>This arrangement would keep most of the pre-merger NFL teams in the NFC and the AFL teams in the AFC. Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Baltimore were placed in the AFC in order to balance the conferences, while the NFC equalized the competitive strength of its East and West divisions rather than sorting out teams purely geographically. </p><p>Division alignment in 1970 largely kept traditional rivals in the same division. Plans were also made to add two expansion teams, but this would not take place until 1976, seven years after the merger, when the <a href="/wiki/Tampa_Bay_Buccaneers" title="Tampa Bay Buccaneers">Tampa Bay Buccaneers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Seahawks" title="Seattle Seahawks">Seattle Seahawks</a> joined the league. </p><p>The 26-team league also began to use an eight-team <a href="/wiki/NFL_playoffs" title="NFL playoffs">playoff</a> format, four from each conference, that included the three division winners and a <a href="/wiki/Wild_card_(sports)#National_Football_League" title="Wild card (sports)">wild card</a> team, the second-place team with the best record. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Draft">Draft</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1970_NFL_season&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Draft"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/1970_NFL_draft" title="1970 NFL draft">1970 NFL draft</a> was held from January 27 to 28, 1970 at <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>'s Belmont Plaza Hotel. With the first pick, the <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Steelers" title="Pittsburgh Steelers">Pittsburgh Steelers</a> selected quarterback <a href="/wiki/Terry_Bradshaw" title="Terry Bradshaw">Terry Bradshaw</a> from <a href="/wiki/Louisiana_Tech_University" title="Louisiana Tech University">Louisiana Tech University</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Major_rule_changes">Major rule changes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1970_NFL_season&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Major rule changes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1986_Jeno%27s_Pizza_-_32_-_Earl_Morrall.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/1986_Jeno%27s_Pizza_-_32_-_Earl_Morrall.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="146" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="146" /></a><figcaption>The Colts running an offensive play in Super Bowl V</figcaption></figure> <p>The NFL rules became the standardized rules for the merged league, with two exceptions that were both carried over from the AFL: </p> <ul><li>The stadium's scoreboard clock became the official game clock. An official (the line judge beginning in 1965) kept the official time on the field in the NFL; however, the scoreboard clock was the official timepiece for the four <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl" title="Super Bowl">Super Bowls</a> contested prior to the merger.</li> <li>The practice of having the players' last names added to the backs of their jerseys became universal. The old NFL teams did not have names on the back prior to this season, whereas the AFL teams did.</li></ul> <p>After experimenting with compromise rules regarding the <a href="/wiki/Two-point_conversion" title="Two-point conversion">two-point conversion</a> (then exclusive to the AFL) during the late 1960s preseasons, the NFL decided not to use that feature and use its previous rule only allowing one point for any conversion. The two-point conversion would later be added to the NFL rules in 1994. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Division_races">Division races</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1970_NFL_season&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Division races"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Starting in 1970, there were three divisions (Eastern, Central and Western) in each conference. The winners of each division, and a fourth "wild card" team based on the best non-division winner, qualified for the playoffs. The tiebreaker rules were changed to start with head-to-head competition, followed by intra-conference records and finally a <a href="/wiki/Coin_flipping" title="Coin flipping">coin flip</a>. This became problematic during the final week of the regular season when potential victories by the Cowboys, Lions and Giants (all of whom were playing at home and favored to win) would have resulted in all three teams having similar records, New York winning the NFC East championship and a coin toss between Dallas and Detroit to decide the wild card.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That possibility was averted when the Giants were upset by the Los Angeles Rams.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Because of this close call regarding possible use of coin toss, future tie-breakers would be expanded to have more competitive aspects. </p> <dl><dt>National Football Conference</dt></dl> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Week </th> <th>Eastern </th> <th> </th> <th>Central </th> <th> </th> <th>Western </th> <th> </th> <th>Wild Card </th> <th> </th></tr> <tr> <td>1 </td> <td>Dallas </td> <td>1–0–0 </td> <td>3 teams </td> <td>1–0–0 </td> <td>3 teams </td> <td>1–0–0 </td> <td>4 teams </td> <td>1–0–0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2 </td> <td>Dallas </td> <td>2–0–0 </td> <td>3 teams </td> <td>2–0–0 </td> <td>2 teams </td> <td>2–0–0 </td> <td>3 teams </td> <td>2–0–0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>3 </td> <td>St. Louis* </td> <td>2–1–0 </td> <td>Detroit </td> <td>3–0–0 </td> <td>Los Angeles </td> <td>3–0–0 </td> <td>6 teams </td> <td>2–1–0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>4 </td> <td>St. Louis* </td> <td>3–1–0 </td> <td>Detroit* </td> <td>3–1–0 </td> <td>San Francisco* </td> <td>3–1–0 </td> <td>4 teams </td> <td>3–1–0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>5 </td> <td>St. Louis </td> <td>4–1–0 </td> <td>Detroit* </td> <td>4–1–0 </td> <td>Los Angeles </td> <td>4–1–0 </td> <td>Minnesota </td> <td>4–1–0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>6 </td> <td>St. Louis* </td> <td>4–2–0 </td> <td>Detroit* </td> <td>5–1–0 </td> <td>San Francisco </td> <td>4–1–1 </td> <td>Minnesota </td> <td>5–1–0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>7 </td> <td>St. Louis* </td> <td>5–2–0 </td> <td>Minnesota </td> <td>6–1–0 </td> <td>San Francisco </td> <td>5–1–1 </td> <td>3 teams </td> <td>5–2–0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>8 </td> <td>St. Louis </td> <td>6–2–0 </td> <td>Minnesota </td> <td>7–1–0 </td> <td>San Francisco </td> <td>6–1–1 </td> <td>Los Angeles </td> <td>5–2–1 </td></tr> <tr> <td>9 </td> <td>St. Louis </td> <td>7–2–0 </td> <td>Minnesota </td> <td>8–1–0 </td> <td>San Francisco </td> <td>7–1–1 </td> <td>N.Y. Giants </td> <td>6–3–0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>10 </td> <td>St. Louis </td> <td>7–2–1 </td> <td>Minnesota </td> <td>9–1–0 </td> <td>San Francisco </td> <td>7–2–1 </td> <td>Los Angeles </td> <td>6–3–1 </td></tr> <tr> <td>11 </td> <td>St. Louis </td> <td>8–2–1 </td> <td>Minnesota </td> <td>9–2–0 </td> <td>Los Angeles* </td> <td>7–3–1 </td> <td>San Francisco </td> <td>7–3–1 </td></tr> <tr> <td>12 </td> <td>St. Louis </td> <td>8–3–1 </td> <td>Minnesota </td> <td>10–2–0 </td> <td>Los Angeles* </td> <td>8–3–1 </td> <td>San Francisco </td> <td>8–3–1 </td></tr> <tr> <td>13 </td> <td>N.Y. Giants* </td> <td>9–4–0 </td> <td>Minnesota </td> <td>11–2–0 </td> <td>San Francisco </td> <td>9–3–1 </td> <td>Dallas* </td> <td>9–4–0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>14 </td> <td bgcolor="#B0B7BC"><b><a href="/wiki/1970_Dallas_Cowboys_season" title="1970 Dallas Cowboys season"><span style="color:blue;">Dallas</span></a></b> </td> <td>10–4–0 </td> <td bgcolor="#4F2683"><b><a href="/wiki/1970_Minnesota_Vikings_season" title="1970 Minnesota Vikings season"><span style="color:gold;">Minnesota</span></a></b> </td> <td>12–2–0 </td> <td bgcolor="#CC0000"><b><a href="/wiki/1970_San_Francisco_49ers_season" title="1970 San Francisco 49ers season"><span style="color:gold;">San Francisco</span></a></b> </td> <td>10–3–1 </td> <td bgcolor="#0076B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1970_Detroit_Lions_season" title="1970 Detroit Lions season"><span style="color:silver;">Detroit</span></a></b> </td> <td>10–4–0 </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dt>American Football Conference</dt></dl> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Week </th> <th>Eastern </th> <th> </th> <th>Central </th> <th> </th> <th>Western </th> <th> </th> <th>Wild Card </th> <th> </th></tr> <tr> <td>1 </td> <td>2 teams </td> <td>1–0–0 </td> <td>3 teams </td> <td>1–0–0 </td> <td>Denver </td> <td>1–0–0 </td> <td>3 teams </td> <td>1–0–0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2 </td> <td>4 teams </td> <td>1–1–0 </td> <td>3 teams </td> <td>1–1–0 </td> <td>Denver </td> <td>2–0–0 </td> <td>6 teams </td> <td>1–1–0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>3 </td> <td>Baltimore* </td> <td>2–1–0 </td> <td>2 teams </td> <td>2–1–0 </td> <td>Denver </td> <td>3–0–0 </td> <td>2 teams </td> <td>2–1–0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>4 </td> <td>Baltimore* </td> <td>3–1–0 </td> <td>Cleveland </td> <td>3–1–0 </td> <td>Denver </td> <td>3–1–0 </td> <td>Miami </td> <td>3–1–0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>5 </td> <td>Baltimore* </td> <td>4–1–0 </td> <td>Cleveland </td> <td>3–2–0 </td> <td>Denver </td> <td>4–1–0 </td> <td>Miami </td> <td>4–1–0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>6 </td> <td>Baltimore </td> <td>5–1–0 </td> <td>Cleveland </td> <td>4–2–0 </td> <td>Denver </td> <td>4–2–0 </td> <td>Miami </td> <td>4–2–0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>7 </td> <td>Baltimore </td> <td>6–1–0 </td> <td>Cleveland </td> <td>4–3–0 </td> <td>Oakland </td> <td>3–2–2 </td> <td>Denver </td> <td>4–3–0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>8 </td> <td>Baltimore </td> <td>7–1–0 </td> <td>Cleveland* </td> <td>4–4–0 </td> <td>Oakland </td> <td>4–2–2 </td> <td>Kansas City </td> <td>4–3–1 </td></tr> <tr> <td>9 </td> <td>Baltimore </td> <td>7–1–1 </td> <td>Cleveland* </td> <td>4–5–0 </td> <td>Oakland </td> <td>5–2–2 </td> <td>Kansas City </td> <td>5–3–1 </td></tr> <tr> <td>10 </td> <td>Baltimore </td> <td>7–2–1 </td> <td>Cleveland </td> <td>5–5–0 </td> <td>Oakland </td> <td>6–2–2 </td> <td>Kansas City </td> <td>5–3–2 </td></tr> <tr> <td>11 </td> <td>Baltimore </td> <td>8–2–1 </td> <td>Cleveland* </td> <td>5–6–0 </td> <td>Oakland* </td> <td>6–3–2 </td> <td>Kansas City </td> <td>6–3–2 </td></tr> <tr> <td>12 </td> <td>Baltimore </td> <td>9–2–1 </td> <td>Cleveland* </td> <td>6–6–0 </td> <td>Oakland* </td> <td>7–3–2 </td> <td>Kansas City </td> <td>7–3–2 </td></tr> <tr> <td>13 </td> <td>Baltimore </td> <td>10–2–1 </td> <td>Cincinnati </td> <td>7–6–0 </td> <td>Oakland </td> <td>8–3–2 </td> <td>Miami </td> <td>9–4–0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>14 </td> <td bgcolor="#013369"><b><a href="/wiki/1970_Baltimore_Colts_season" title="1970 Baltimore Colts season"><span style="color:white;">Baltimore</span></a></b> </td> <td>11–2–1 </td> <td bgcolor="#FF6600"><b><a href="/wiki/1970_Cincinnati_Bengals_season" title="1970 Cincinnati Bengals season"><span style="color:black;">Cincinnati</span></a></b> </td> <td>8–6–0 </td> <td bgcolor="#999999"><b><a href="/wiki/1970_Oakland_Raiders_season" title="1970 Oakland Raiders season"><span style="color:black;">Oakland</span></a></b> </td> <td>8–4–2 </td> <td bgcolor="#008E97"><b><a href="/wiki/1970_Miami_Dolphins_season" title="1970 Miami Dolphins season"><span style="color:orange;">Miami</span></a></b> </td> <td>10–4–0 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<td>4 </td> <td>2 </td> <td>.667 </td> <td>4–0–2 </td> <td>7–2–2 </td> <td>300 </td> <td>293 </td> <td>L1 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1970_Kansas_City_Chiefs_season" title="1970 Kansas City Chiefs season">Kansas City Chiefs</a> </td> <td>7 </td> <td>5 </td> <td>2 </td> <td>.583 </td> <td>2–3–1 </td> <td>7–3–1 </td> <td>272 </td> <td>244 </td> <td>L2 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1970_San_Diego_Chargers_season" title="1970 San Diego Chargers season">San Diego Chargers</a> </td> <td>5 </td> <td>6 </td> <td>3 </td> <td>.455 </td> <td>2–2–2 </td> <td>4–4–3 </td> <td>282 </td> <td>278 </td> <td>W1 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1970_Denver_Broncos_season" title="1970 Denver Broncos season">Denver Broncos</a> </td> <td>5 </td> <td>8 </td> <td>1 </td> <td>.385 </td> <td>1–4–1 </td> <td>3–6–1 </td> <td>253 </td> <td>264 </td> <td>L1 </td></tr></tbody></table> <dl><dd><small><b>Note:</b> Tie games were 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<td>12 </td> <td>2 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>.857 </td> <td>5–1 </td> <td>10–1 </td> <td>335 </td> <td>143 </td> <td>W3 </td></tr> <tr style="background:#ffc;"> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1970_Detroit_Lions_season" title="1970 Detroit Lions season">Detroit Lions</a> </td> <td>10 </td> <td>4 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>.714 </td> <td>4–2 </td> <td>7–4 </td> <td>347 </td> <td>202 </td> <td>W5 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1970_Green_Bay_Packers_season" title="1970 Green Bay Packers season">Green Bay Packers</a> </td> <td>6 </td> <td>8 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>.429 </td> <td>2–4 </td> <td>4–7 </td> <td>196 </td> <td>293 </td> <td>L2 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1970_Chicago_Bears_season" title="1970 Chicago Bears season">Chicago Bears</a> </td> <td>6 </td> <td>8 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>.429 </td> <td>1–5 </td> <td>5–6 </td> <td>256 </td> <td>261 </td> <td>W2 </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable" 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<th width="25"><abbr title="Losses">L</abbr> </th> <th width="25"><abbr title="Ties">T</abbr> </th> <th width="30"><abbr title="Winning percentage">PCT</abbr> </th> <th width="40"><abbr title="Win–Loss record within their division">DIV</abbr> </th> <th width="40"><abbr title="Win–Loss record within their conference">CONF</abbr> </th> <th width="30"><abbr title="Points For (Total points scored)">PF</abbr> </th> <th width="30"><abbr title="Points Against (Total points allowed)">PA</abbr> </th> <th width="30"><abbr title="Current Winning or Losing Streak">STK</abbr> </th></tr> <tr style="background:#cfc;"> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1970_San_Francisco_49ers_season" title="1970 San Francisco 49ers season">San Francisco 49ers</a> </td> <td>10 </td> <td>3 </td> <td>1 </td> <td>.769 </td> <td>3–2–1 </td> <td>6–3–1 </td> <td>352 </td> <td>267 </td> <td>W3 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1970_Los_Angeles_Rams_season" title="1970 Los Angeles Rams season">Los Angeles Rams</a> </td> <td>9 </td> <td>4 </td> <td>1 </td> <td>.692 </td> <td>4–1–1 </td> <td>7–3–1 </td> <td>325 </td> <td>202 </td> <td>W1 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1970_Atlanta_Falcons_season" title="1970 Atlanta Falcons season">Atlanta Falcons</a> </td> <td>4 </td> <td>8 </td> <td>2 </td> <td>.333 </td> <td>3–2–1 </td> <td>3–6–2 </td> <td>206 </td> <td>261 </td> <td>L1 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1970_New_Orleans_Saints_season" title="1970 New Orleans Saints season">New Orleans Saints</a> </td> <td>2 </td> <td>11 </td> <td>1 </td> <td>.154 </td> <td>0–5–1 </td> <td>2–8–1 </td> <td>172 </td> <td>347 </td> <td>L6 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tiebreakers">Tiebreakers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1970_NFL_season&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Tiebreakers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Green Bay finished ahead of Chicago in the NFC Central based on better division record (2–4 to Bears' 1–5).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Playoffs">Playoffs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1970_NFL_season&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Playoffs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/1970%E2%80%9371_NFL_playoffs" title="1970–71 NFL playoffs">1970–71 NFL playoffs</a></div> <dl><dd><small>Note: Although the home teams in these playoffs were decided based on a yearly rotation, the home club coincidentally happened to be the one with the better record in every game. Had the playoffs been seeded, the only difference would have been that the #4 wild card Lions, ineligible to play the Vikings, would have played at the #2 49ers and the #3 Cowboys would have played at the #1 Vikings in the NFC divisional playoffs.</small></dd></dl> <table style="font-size:90%; margin:1em 2em 1em 1em; border-collabpse:collapse; border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="height:1px;"> </td> <td style="width:1.7em;"></td> <td style="width:10em;"></td> <td style="width:2.6em;"> </td> <td style="width:.7em;"></td> <td style="width:.7em;"> </td> <td style="width:1.7em;"></td> <td style="width:10em;"></td> <td style="width:2.6em;"> </td> <td style="width:.7em;"></td> <td style="width:.7em;"> </td> <td style="width:2em;"></td> <td style="width:10em;"></td> <td style="width:2.6em;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:4.8ex;"> </td> <td colspan="3" rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:bottom;">Dec 27 – <a href="/wiki/Oakland_Coliseum" title="Oakland Coliseum">Oakland Coliseum</a> </td> <td rowspan="4" style="border-bottom:2px solid"> </td> <td rowspan="9" style="border-bottom:2px solid"> </td> <td colspan="3" rowspan="3"> </td> <td rowspan="9" style="border-bottom:2px solid"> </td> <td rowspan="19" style="border-bottom:2px solid"> </td> <td colspan="3" rowspan="13"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:1px 0 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background-color: #D50A0A !important; color: #FFFFFF !important;;">WC </td> <td rowspan="2" style="padding-left:.5em; border-width:1px 1px 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/1970_Miami_Dolphins_season" title="1970 Miami Dolphins season">Miami</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:1px 1px 1px 0; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#FFCCCC;">14 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td colspan="3" rowspan="4" style="vertical-align:bottom;">Jan 3 – Memorial Stadium </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:0 0 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background-color: #D50A0A !important; color: #FFFFFF !important;;font-weight:bold;">West </td> <td rowspan="2" style="padding-left:.5em; border-width:0 1px 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#FFCCCC;font-weight:bold;"><a href="/wiki/1970_Oakland_Raiders_season" title="1970 Oakland Raiders season">Oakland</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:0 1px 1px 0; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#FFCCCC;font-weight:bold;">21 </td> <td rowspan="10" style="border-width:1px 3px 2px 0; border-style:solid;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td colspan="3" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom;"><b>AFC</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:1px 0 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background-color: #D50A0A !important; color: #FFFFFF !important;;">West </td> <td rowspan="2" style="padding-left:.5em; border-width:1px 1px 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#FFCCCC;">Oakland </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:1px 1px 1px 0; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#FFCCCC;">17 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td colspan="3" rowspan="4" style="vertical-align:bottom;">Dec 26 – <a href="/wiki/Memorial_Stadium_(Baltimore)" class="mw-redirect" title="Memorial Stadium (Baltimore)">Memorial Stadium</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td rowspan="20" style="border-width:1px 0 2px 0; border-style:solid;"> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:0 0 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background-color: #D50A0A !important; color: #FFFFFF !important;;font-weight:bold;">East </td> <td rowspan="2" style="padding-left:.5em; border-width:0 1px 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#FFCCCC;font-weight:bold;">Baltimore </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:0 1px 1px 0; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#FFCCCC;font-weight:bold;">27 </td> <td rowspan="20" style="border-width:1px 3px 2px 0; border-style: solid;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td colspan="3" rowspan="4" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"><b>AFC Championship</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:1px 0 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background-color: #D50A0A !important; color: #FFFFFF !important;;">Cent. </td> <td rowspan="2" style="padding-left:.5em; border-width:1px 1px 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/1970_Cincinnati_Bengals_season" title="1970 Cincinnati Bengals season">Cincinnati</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:1px 1px 1px 0; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#FFCCCC;">0 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td colspan="3" rowspan="4" style="vertical-align:bottom;">Jan 17 – <a href="/wiki/Miami_Orange_Bowl" title="Miami Orange Bowl">Miami Orange Bowl</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:0 0 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background-color: #D50A0A !important; color: #FFFFFF !important;;font-weight:bold;">East </td> <td rowspan="2" style="padding-left:.5em; border-width:0 1px 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#FFCCCC;font-weight:bold;"><a href="/wiki/1970_Baltimore_Colts_season" title="1970 Baltimore Colts season">Baltimore</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:0 1px 1px 0; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#FFCCCC;font-weight:bold;">17 </td> <td rowspan="10" style="border-width:1px 0 2px 0; border-style:solid;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td colspan="3" rowspan="8"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td colspan="3" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom;"><b>Divisional playoffs</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:1px 0 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background-color: #D50A0A !important; color: #FFFFFF !important;;font-weight:bold;">AFC </td> <td rowspan="2" style="padding-left:.5em; border-width:1px 1px 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#FFCCCC;font-weight:bold;">Baltimore </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:1px 1px 1px 0; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#FFCCCC;font-weight:bold;">16 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td colspan="3" rowspan="4" style="vertical-align:bottom;">Dec 26 – <a href="/wiki/Cotton_Bowl_(stadium)" title="Cotton Bowl (stadium)">Cotton Bowl</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td rowspan="17" style="border-top:1px solid;"> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:0 0 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background-color: #013369 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important;;">NFC </td> <td rowspan="2" style="padding-left:.5em; border-width:0 1px 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#D0E7FF;">Dallas </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:0 1px 1px 0; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#D0E7FF;">13 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td colspan="3" rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:top;"><b><a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_V" title="Super Bowl V">Super Bowl V</a></b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:1px 0 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background-color: #013369 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important;;">WC </td> <td rowspan="2" style="padding-left:.5em; border-width:1px 1px 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/1970_Detroit_Lions_season" title="1970 Detroit Lions season">Detroit</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:1px 1px 1px 0; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#D0E7FF;">0 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td colspan="3" rowspan="4" style="vertical-align:bottom;">Jan 3 – <a href="/wiki/Kezar_Stadium" title="Kezar Stadium">Kezar Stadium</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:0 0 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background-color: #013369 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important;;font-weight:bold;">East </td> <td rowspan="2" style="padding-left:.5em; border-width:0 1px 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#D0E7FF;font-weight:bold;"><a href="/wiki/1970_Dallas_Cowboys_season" title="1970 Dallas Cowboys season">Dallas</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:0 1px 1px 0; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#D0E7FF;font-weight:bold;">5 </td> <td rowspan="10" style="border-width:1px 3px 2px 0; border-style:solid;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td colspan="3" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom;"><b>NFC</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:1px 0 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background-color: #013369 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important;;font-weight:bold;">East </td> <td rowspan="2" style="padding-left:.5em; border-width:1px 1px 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#D0E7FF;font-weight:bold;">Dallas </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:1px 1px 1px 0; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#D0E7FF;font-weight:bold;">17 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td colspan="3" rowspan="4" style="vertical-align:bottom;">Dec 27 – <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Stadium" title="Metropolitan Stadium">Metropolitan Stadium</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td rowspan="7" style="border-top:1px solid;"> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:0 0 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background-color: #013369 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important;;">West </td> <td rowspan="2" style="padding-left:.5em; border-width:0 1px 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#D0E7FF;">San Francisco </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:0 1px 1px 0; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#D0E7FF;">10 </td> <td rowspan="7" style="border-top:1px solid;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td colspan="3" rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:top;"><b>NFC Championship</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:1px 0 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background-color: #013369 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important;;font-weight:bold;">West </td> <td rowspan="2" style="padding-left:.5em; border-width:1px 1px 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#D0E7FF;font-weight:bold;"><a href="/wiki/1970_San_Francisco_49ers_season" title="1970 San Francisco 49ers season">San Francisco</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:1px 1px 1px 0; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#D0E7FF;font-weight:bold;">17 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:0 0 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background-color: #013369 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important;;">Cent. </td> <td rowspan="2" style="padding-left:.5em; border-width:0 1px 1px 1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/1970_Minnesota_Vikings_season" title="1970 Minnesota Vikings season">Minnesota</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; border-width:0 1px 1px 0; border-style:solid; border-color:#000000; background:#D0E7FF;">14 </td> <td rowspan="2" style="border-top:1px solid;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="height:1.6ex;"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><br /> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist"><span>This bracket </span><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:1970%E2%80%9371_NFL_playoffs" title="Template:1970–71 NFL playoffs"><span title="View this template">view</span></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:1970%E2%80%9371_NFL_playoffs" title="Template talk:1970–71 NFL playoffs"><span title="Discuss this template">talk</span></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:1970%E2%80%9371_NFL_playoffs" title="Special:EditPage/Template:1970–71 NFL playoffs"><span title="Edit this template">edit</span></a></li></ul></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Records">Records</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1970_NFL_season&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Records"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On November 8, <a href="/wiki/1970_New_Orleans_Saints_season" title="1970 New Orleans Saints season">New Orleans Saints</a> placekicker <a href="/wiki/Tom_Dempsey" title="Tom Dempsey">Tom Dempsey</a> kicked a record 63-yard field goal as time expired to win 19–17 over the visiting <a href="/wiki/1970_Detroit_Lions_season" title="1970 Detroit Lions season">Detroit Lions</a>. It bettered the previous record by seven yards (set <a href="/wiki/1953_NFL_season" title="1953 NFL season">seventeen years earlier</a> by <a href="/wiki/Bert_Rechichar" title="Bert Rechichar">Bert Rechichar</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-mlw_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mlw-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-spoftfb_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-spoftfb-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and stood for 43 years (tied in <a href="/wiki/1998_NFL_season" title="1998 NFL season">1998</a>, <a href="/wiki/2011_NFL_season" title="2011 NFL season">2011</a>, and <a href="/wiki/2012_NFL_season" title="2012 NFL season">2012</a>) until it was broken in <a href="/wiki/2013_NFL_season" title="2013 NFL season">2013</a> by <a href="/wiki/2013_Denver_Broncos_season" title="2013 Denver Broncos season">Denver Broncos</a>' <a href="/wiki/Matt_Prater" title="Matt Prater">Matt Prater</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CBSsports_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBSsports-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His record 64-yard field goal was at <a href="/wiki/Elevation" title="Elevation">elevation</a> in Denver on December 8, at the end of the first half. That record would stand until September 26, 2021, when <a href="/wiki/2021_Baltimore_Ravens_season" title="2021 Baltimore Ravens season">Baltimore Ravens</a>' <a href="/wiki/Justin_Tucker" title="Justin Tucker">Justin Tucker</a> kicked a 66 yard field goal as time expired to win 19-17 over the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Lions" title="Detroit Lions">Detroit Lions</a><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/1970_Denver_Broncos_season" title="1970 Denver Broncos season">Denver Broncos</a>, Detroit Lions, and <a href="/wiki/1970_Los_Angeles_Rams_season" title="1970 Los Angeles Rams season">Los Angeles Rams</a> all started 3–0 but lost in Week Four. Only the Lions advanced to the postseason after the 3–0 start. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Coaching_changes">Coaching changes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1970_NFL_season&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Coaching changes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Offseason">Offseason</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1970_NFL_season&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Offseason"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Colts" title="Baltimore Colts">Baltimore Colts</a>: <a href="/wiki/Don_McCafferty" title="Don McCafferty">Don McCafferty</a> replaced <a href="/wiki/Don_Shula" title="Don Shula">Don Shula</a>, who left the team to coach the Miami Dolphins.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miami_Dolphins" title="Miami Dolphins">Miami Dolphins</a>: <a href="/wiki/Don_Shula" title="Don Shula">Don Shula</a> left the Baltimore Colts to replace the fired <a href="/wiki/George_Wilson_(American_football_coach)" title="George Wilson (American football coach)">George Wilson</a> as Miami's head coach.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Diego_Chargers" title="San Diego Chargers">San Diego Chargers</a>: <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Waller_(American_football)" title="Charlie Waller (American football)">Charlie Waller</a> began his first full season as head coach. He replaced <a href="/wiki/Sid_Gillman" title="Sid Gillman">Sid Gillman</a> to serve for five games in 1969 due to Gillman's poor health.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_Redskins" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Redskins">Washington Redskins</a>: <a href="/wiki/Vince_Lombardi" title="Vince Lombardi">Vince Lombardi</a> was diagnosed with terminal cancer in late June and died on September 3. Offensive line coach <a href="/wiki/Bill_Austin_(American_football,_born_1928)" title="Bill Austin (American football, born 1928)">Bill Austin</a> served as Washington's head coach for the 1970 season.</li></ul> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Head coaches at the start of the merged 1970 NFL regular season </caption> <tbody><tr> <th style="background-color:#FFCCCC;" colspan="3">AFC </th> <th style="background-color:#D0E7FF;" colspan="3">NFC </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background-color:#FFCCCC;">East </th> <th style="background-color:#FFCCCC;">Central </th> <th style="background-color:#FFCCCC;">West </th> <th style="background-color:#D0E7FF;">East </th> <th style="background-color:#D0E7FF;">Central </th> <th style="background-color:#D0E7FF;">West </th></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Colts" title="Baltimore Colts">Baltimore</a>: <a href="/wiki/Don_McCafferty" title="Don McCafferty">Don McCafferty</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Bengals" title="Cincinnati Bengals">Cincinnati</a>: <a href="/wiki/Paul_Brown" title="Paul Brown">Paul Brown</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Denver_Broncos" title="Denver Broncos">Denver</a>: <a href="/wiki/Lou_Saban" title="Lou Saban">Lou Saban</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Dallas_Cowboys" title="Dallas Cowboys">Dallas</a>: <a href="/wiki/Tom_Landry" title="Tom Landry">Tom Landry</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Bears" title="Chicago Bears">Chicago</a>: <a href="/wiki/Jim_Dooley" title="Jim Dooley">Jim Dooley</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Falcons" title="Atlanta Falcons">Atlanta</a>: <a href="/wiki/Norm_Van_Brocklin" title="Norm Van Brocklin">Norm Van Brocklin</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Boston_Patriots" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Patriots">Boston</a>: <a href="/wiki/Clive_Rush" title="Clive Rush">Clive Rush</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Browns" title="Cleveland Browns">Cleveland</a>: <a href="/wiki/Blanton_Collier" title="Blanton Collier">Blanton Collier</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Chiefs" title="Kansas City Chiefs">Kansas City</a>: <a href="/wiki/Hank_Stram" title="Hank Stram">Hank Stram</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants" title="New York Giants">NY Giants</a>: <a href="/wiki/Alex_Webster_(American_football)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alex Webster (American football)">Alex Webster</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Detroit_Lions" title="Detroit Lions">Detroit</a>: <a href="/wiki/Joe_Schmidt_(American_football)" title="Joe Schmidt (American football)">Joe Schmidt</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Rams" title="Los Angeles Rams">Los Angeles</a>: <a href="/wiki/George_Allen_(American_football_coach)" title="George Allen (American football coach)">George Allen</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Bills" title="Buffalo Bills">Buffalo</a>: <a href="/wiki/John_Rauch" title="John Rauch">John Rauch</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Houston_Oilers" title="Houston Oilers">Houston</a>: <a href="/wiki/Wally_Lemm" title="Wally Lemm">Wally Lemm</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Oakland_Raiders" title="Oakland Raiders">Oakland</a>: <a href="/wiki/John_Madden" title="John Madden">John Madden</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Eagles" title="Philadelphia Eagles">Philadelphia</a>: <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Williams_(American_football)" title="Jerry Williams (American football)">Jerry Williams</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Green_Bay_Packers" title="Green Bay Packers">Green Bay</a>: <a href="/wiki/Phil_Bengtson" title="Phil Bengtson">Phil Bengtson</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/New_Orleans_Saints" title="New Orleans Saints">New Orleans</a>: <a href="/wiki/Tom_Fears" title="Tom Fears">Tom Fears</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Miami_Dolphins" title="Miami Dolphins">Miami</a>: <a href="/wiki/Don_Shula" title="Don Shula">Don Shula</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Steelers" title="Pittsburgh Steelers">Pittsburgh</a>: <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Noll" title="Chuck Noll">Chuck Noll</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/San_Diego_Chargers" title="San Diego Chargers">San Diego</a>: <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Waller_(American_football)" title="Charlie Waller (American football)">Charlie Waller</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals_(NFL)" title="St. Louis Cardinals (NFL)">St. Louis</a>: <a href="/wiki/Charley_Winner" title="Charley Winner">Charley Winner</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Vikings" title="Minnesota Vikings">Minnesota</a>: <a href="/wiki/Bud_Grant" title="Bud Grant">Bud Grant</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_49ers" title="San Francisco 49ers">San Francisco</a>: <a href="/wiki/Dick_Nolan_(American_football)" title="Dick Nolan (American football)">Dick Nolan</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"><a href="/wiki/New_York_Jets" title="New York Jets">NY Jets</a>: <a href="/wiki/Weeb_Ewbank" title="Weeb Ewbank">Weeb Ewbank</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#DDD;" colspan="2">  </td> <td style="background-color:#D0E7FF;"><a href="/wiki/Washington_Redskins" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Redskins">Washington</a>: <a href="/wiki/Bill_Austin_(American_football,_born_1928)" title="Bill Austin (American football, born 1928)">Bill Austin</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#DDD;" colspan="2">  </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In-season">In-season</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1970_NFL_season&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: In-season"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1970_Boston_Patriots_season" title="1970 Boston Patriots season">Boston Patriots</a>: <a href="/wiki/Clive_Rush" title="Clive Rush">Clive Rush</a> resigned after seven games into the season for medical reasons. <a href="/wiki/John_Mazur" title="John Mazur">John Mazur</a> served as interim for the rest of the season and was hired as the full-time coach for 1971.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_New_Orleans_Saints_season" title="1970 New Orleans Saints season">New Orleans Saints </a>: <a href="/wiki/Tom_Fears" title="Tom Fears">Tom Fears</a> was fired after a 1–5–1 start. <a href="/wiki/J._D._Roberts" title="J. D. Roberts">J. D. Roberts</a> was named as his replacement and was hired as the full-time coach for 1971.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Stadium_changes">Stadium changes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1970_NFL_season&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Stadium changes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Before the season, the league had demanded that the <a href="/wiki/1970_Chicago_Bears_season" title="1970 Chicago Bears season">Chicago Bears</a> find a new home field: <a href="/wiki/Wrigley_Field" title="Wrigley Field">Wrigley Field</a> was too small, as it did not meet the new stadium requirement to seat at least 50,000, and it did not have lights (installed in 1988), meaning it was unavailable for late afternoon and night games. The <a href="/wiki/1970_Chicago_Cubs_season" title="1970 Chicago Cubs season">Chicago Cubs</a> baseball team, which shared the stadium with the Bears, did not want to convert it to a football configuration while the Cubs were still in playoff contention. </p><p>As a result, the Bears' first home game of the season against the <a href="/wiki/1970_Philadelphia_Eagles_season" title="1970 Philadelphia Eagles season">Philadelphia Eagles</a> was played at <a href="/wiki/Northwestern_University" title="Northwestern University">Northwestern University</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Dyche_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="Dyche Stadium">Dyche Stadium</a>; Chicago also treated this game as a trial run for possibly moving their home games to <a href="/wiki/Evanston,_Illinois" title="Evanston, Illinois">Evanston</a>. Dyche Stadium (since renamed Ryan Field), did not have lights (nor does it have permanent standards today), was planned as the Bears' new home, but a deal fell through due to strong opposition from several athletic directors in the <a href="/wiki/Big_Ten_Conference" title="Big Ten Conference">Big Ten Conference</a> and residents of Evanston. After negotiations with the Cubs' ownership for continued use of Wrigley Field collapsed, the Bears moved to <a href="/wiki/Soldier_Field" title="Soldier Field">Soldier Field</a> in <a href="/wiki/1971_Chicago_Bears_season" title="1971 Chicago Bears season">1971</a> where they remain to the present day, save for a temporary relocation in <a href="/wiki/2002_Chicago_Bears_season" title="2002 Chicago Bears season">2002</a> to the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Illinois_at_Urbana%E2%80%93Champaign" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign">University of Illinois</a>' <a href="/wiki/Memorial_Stadium_(Champaign)" class="mw-redirect" title="Memorial Stadium (Champaign)">Memorial Stadium</a> while Soldier Field was completely renovated. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/1970_Boston_Patriots_season" title="1970 Boston Patriots season">Boston Patriots</a> played in their fourth facility in eleven seasons, leaving <a href="/wiki/Alumni_Stadium" title="Alumni Stadium">Alumni Stadium</a> at <a href="/wiki/Boston_College_Eagles_football" title="Boston College Eagles football">Boston College</a> for <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Stadium" title="Harvard Stadium">Harvard Stadium</a>, the only facility in <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a> at that time which met the NFL's 50,000-seat minimum. The struggles to find a home led the Patriots to hastily construct <a href="/wiki/Foxboro_Stadium" title="Foxboro Stadium">Schaeffer Stadium</a> in <a href="/wiki/Foxborough,_Massachusetts" title="Foxborough, Massachusetts">Foxborough</a>, which opened in <a href="/wiki/1971_New_England_Patriots_season" title="1971 New England Patriots season">1971</a>. Renamed from "Boston" to "New England" when they moved, the Patriots continue to play in Foxborough in <a href="/wiki/Gillette_Stadium" title="Gillette Stadium">Gillette Stadium</a>, which opened in <a href="/wiki/2002_New_England_Patriots_season" title="2002 New England Patriots season">2002</a>. </p><p>Two <a href="/wiki/Multi-purpose_stadium" title="Multi-purpose stadium">multi-purpose stadiums</a> made their debut this season: <a href="/wiki/Riverfront_Stadium" title="Riverfront Stadium">Riverfront Stadium</a> and <a href="/wiki/Three_Rivers_Stadium" title="Three Rivers Stadium">Three Rivers Stadium</a>, replacing <a href="/wiki/Nippert_Stadium" title="Nippert Stadium">Nippert Stadium</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pitt_Stadium" title="Pitt Stadium">Pitt Stadium</a> as the homes of the <a href="/wiki/1970_Cincinnati_Bengals_season" title="1970 Cincinnati Bengals season">Cincinnati Bengals</a> and <a href="/wiki/1970_Pittsburgh_Steelers_season" title="1970 Pittsburgh Steelers season">Pittsburgh Steelers</a>, respectively. This was also the last season in which <a href="/wiki/Franklin_Field" title="Franklin Field">Franklin Field</a> was the home of the <a href="/wiki/1970_Philadelphia_Eagles_season" title="1970 Philadelphia Eagles season">Philadelphia Eagles</a>; they moved to <a href="/wiki/Veterans_Stadium" title="Veterans Stadium">Veterans Stadium</a>, another multi-purpose stadium, in <a href="/wiki/1971_Philadelphia_Eagles_season" title="1971 Philadelphia Eagles season">1971</a>. </p><p>Seven teams played their home games on artificial turf in 1970. This was up from 2 teams in both the NFL and AFL in 1969. The teams were: Cincinnati, Dallas, Miami, Pittsburgh and St. Louis, who joined Houston and Philadelphia, the two teams which played on turf in 1969. <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_V" title="Super Bowl V">Super Bowl V</a> was held at the <a href="/wiki/Orange_Bowl_(stadium)" class="mw-redirect" title="Orange Bowl (stadium)">Orange Bowl</a> in <a href="/wiki/Miami" title="Miami">Miami</a>, and was the first Super Bowl played on <a href="/wiki/Artificial_turf" title="Artificial turf">artificial turf</a> (specifically, <a href="/wiki/Poly-Turf" title="Poly-Turf">Poly-Turf</a>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Uniform_changes">Uniform changes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1970_NFL_season&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Uniform changes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Cowboys" title="Dallas Cowboys">Dallas Cowboys</a> moved the TV numbers on their jerseys from the shoulders to the sleeves. They remained on the sleeves of the white jersey through 1973 and the blue jersey through 1978.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Lions" title="Detroit Lions">Detroit Lions</a> added trim to their helmet logo beginning in week five.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Vikings" title="Minnesota Vikings">Minnesota Vikings</a> added an alternate purple jersey with no sleeve striping, worn for warm-weather games.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Oakland_Raiders" title="Oakland Raiders">Oakland Raiders</a> used silver numbers instead of black on their white jerseys for the first time since 1963</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Steelers" title="Pittsburgh Steelers">Pittsburgh Steelers</a> wore white pants with their white jerseys, the first time they wore white pants since wearing them for all games in 1965.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Eagles" title="Philadelphia Eagles">Philadelphia Eagles</a> wore white helmets at all their games, discontinuing their practice of using green helmets with their white jerseys and white helmets with their green jerseys (the Eagles would switch back to wearing green helmets in 1974).</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Washington_Redskins" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Redskins">Washington Redskins</a> switched from burgundy to gold helmets, and from the arrow helmet logo to a new logo featuring an "R" inside a circle with Native American feathers hanging down from the side</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Television_changes">Television changes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1970_NFL_season&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Television changes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>To televise their games, the combined league retained the services of <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_CBS" title="NFL on CBS">CBS</a> and <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_NBC" title="NFL on NBC">NBC</a>, who were previously the primary broadcasters of the NFL and the AFL, respectively. It was then decided that CBS would televise all NFC teams (including playoff games) while NBC all AFC teams. For interconference games, CBS would broadcast them if the <a href="/wiki/Home_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Home team">visiting team</a> was from the NFC and NBC would carry them when the visitors were from the AFC. At the time, all NFL games were blacked out in the home team's market, so this arrangement meant that fans in each team's home market would see all of their team's televised Sunday afternoon games on the same network (CBS for NFC teams and NBC for AFC teams). The two networks also divided up the Super Bowl on a yearly rotation, with the network of the designated visiting conference (NBC for odd-numbered games, CBS for even-numbered game) televising each game through <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XVIII" title="Super Bowl XVIII">Super Bowl XVIII</a>. From 1970–73, whichever network did not televise the Super Bowl televised the <a href="/wiki/Pro_Bowl" title="Pro Bowl">Pro Bowl</a> the next week. </p><p>Meanwhile, with the debut of <i><a href="/wiki/Monday_Night_Football" title="Monday Night Football">Monday Night Football</a></i> on <a href="/wiki/NFL_on_ABC" title="NFL on ABC">ABC</a> on September 21, 1970, the league became the first <a href="/wiki/Professional_sports" title="Professional sports">professional sports</a> league in the United States to have a regular series of nationally televised games in prime-time, and the only league ever to have its games televised on all of the then-three major broadcast networks at the same time. Both teams that advanced to the Super Bowl, the <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Baltimore_Colts" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the Baltimore Colts">Baltimore Colts</a> (44-24 to the <a href="/wiki/1970_Kansas_City_Chiefs_season" title="1970 Kansas City Chiefs season">Chiefs</a>) and the <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Cowboys" title="Dallas Cowboys">Dallas Cowboys</a> (38-0 to the <a href="/wiki/1970_St._Louis_Cardinals_(NFL)_season" title="1970 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season">Cardinals</a>), had suffered humiliating defeats at home on Monday Night Football during the season. </p><p>All three networks initially signed four-year television contracts through the 1973 season. The first <i>MNF</i> team consisted of veteran play-by-play announcer <a href="/wiki/Keith_Jackson" title="Keith Jackson">Keith Jackson</a>, sportscaster <a href="/wiki/Howard_Cosell" title="Howard Cosell">Howard Cosell</a>, and former Dallas Cowboys quarterback <a href="/wiki/Don_Meredith" title="Don Meredith">Don Meredith</a>. <a href="/wiki/Ray_Scott_(sportscaster)" title="Ray Scott (sportscaster)">Ray Scott</a> remained as lead play-by-play announcer for CBS, but <a href="/wiki/Pat_Summerall" title="Pat Summerall">Pat Summerall</a> replaced <a href="/wiki/Paul_Christman" title="Paul Christman">Paul Christman</a> as that network's lead color commentator after Christman died from a heart attack on March 2, 1970. <a href="/wiki/Curt_Gowdy" title="Curt Gowdy">Curt Gowdy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kyle_Rote" title="Kyle Rote">Kyle Rote</a> remained as NBC's lead broadcast team.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1970_NFL_season&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>NFL Record and Fact Book</i> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration 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NFL season">1978</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_NFL_season" title="1979 NFL season">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_NFL_season" title="1980 NFL season">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_NFL_season" title="1981 NFL season">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_NFL_season" title="1982 NFL season">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_NFL_season" title="1983 NFL season">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_NFL_season" title="1984 NFL season">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_NFL_season" title="1985 NFL season">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_NFL_season" title="1986 NFL season">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_NFL_season" title="1987 NFL season">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_NFL_season" title="1988 NFL season">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_NFL_season" title="1989 NFL season">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_NFL_season" title="1990 NFL season">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_NFL_season" title="1991 NFL season">1991</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_NFL_season" title="1992 NFL season">1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_NFL_season" title="1993 NFL season">1993</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_NFL_season" title="1994 NFL season">1994</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_NFL_season" title="1995 NFL season">1995</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_NFL_season" title="1996 NFL season">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_NFL_season" title="1997 NFL season">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_NFL_season" title="1998 NFL season">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_NFL_season" title="1999 NFL season">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_NFL_season" title="2000 NFL season">2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_NFL_season" title="2001 NFL season">2001</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002_NFL_season" title="2002 NFL season">2002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_NFL_season" title="2003 NFL season">2003</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_NFL_season" title="2004 NFL season">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_NFL_season" title="2005 NFL season">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_NFL_season" title="2006 NFL season">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_NFL_season" title="2007 NFL season">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_NFL_season" title="2008 NFL season">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_NFL_season" title="2009 NFL season">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_NFL_season" title="2010 NFL season">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_NFL_season" title="2011 NFL season">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_NFL_season" title="2012 NFL season">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_NFL_season" title="2013 NFL season">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_NFL_season" title="2014 NFL season">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_NFL_season" title="2015 NFL season">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_NFL_season" title="2016 NFL season">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_NFL_season" title="2017 NFL season">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_NFL_season" title="2018 NFL season">2018</a></li> 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