Title game thoughts and notes

Tomorrow will be the 46th NFC title game, the first being in 1970.

It will be the 50th time teams from the NFL/NFC (as they say “rinse and repeat” concerning the AFL/AFC), will be meeting with a Super Bowl berth on the line.

Four times the NFL and AFL teams met for the world title, in what now are referred to as Supes (1-4), with the AFL bouncing back from two big score losses vs Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers to win the last two Super Bowls contested between the AFL and NFL.

The two winning AFL teams, the New York Jets and Kansas City Chiefs have failed to make a Super Bowl appearance in the 46 AFC/NFC configuration seasons that have been played.

In the first NFC title tilt, the Dallas Cowboys went to San Francisco and defeated the 49ers in what was the last game ever played at Kezar Stadium.

The legendary great player and humorous Art Donovan talked of the plethora of “calling card material” left by seagulls at “Kezar.”

Two weeks hence the 50th Super Bowl will be played at a spanking new corporate named stadium in the San Francisco area and I, tilting futilely vs yet another windmill prefer the “calling card material” left by the seagulls at Kezar to the similar stuff, the NFL with its horrible presentation has become.

Green Bay Packers’ CoachVince Lombardi and his assistant coach Phil Bengston (closer) on the sidelines in a December 1962 game at Kezar Stadium.