NFL Playoffs: Colts/Bengals, Cowboys/Lions–History Repeats?

The first day of the new format AFC/NFC playoffs was December 26, 1970. That day in the first game, the Cincinnati Bengals visited the Colts (then located in Baltimore).

The second game was in Dallas with the Cowboys hosting the Detroit Lions.

On that day in 1970 in the divisional round, the Colts beat the Bengals by 17 points. Then the Cowboys won by a 5 point margin vs the Lions.

44 years later, in the wild card round on the same day, first the Colts (now in Indianapolis) beat the Bengals by 16 points. Then aided and abetted by a terrible non-interference call, the Cowboys defeated the Lions by 4 points.

Those results are pretty darn eery, if you ask me.

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1970 Lions vs Cowboys

1970 Colts vs Bengals