November 21, 2024 8:31 am
2024 is the tenth year ending in four/”4″ in which a game for the NFL crown will be contested.
In the previous 9, three franchises won two titles in consecutive years ending in four/”4.”
The first of games with that result were in ’54 and ’64 with the Browns winning the title first with a team led by “Automatic” Otto Graham and ten years by one with Jim Brown.
In both ’84 and ’94 the San Francisco 49ers took the NFL crown while in both 2004 and 2014 it was the New England Patriots winning it all.
Three teams, all high on the list of most NFL crowns and certainly Super Bowl titles have one, four year crown each.
Those teams are the New York Giants who “Sneaker Gamed” an unbeaten defending champion Chicago Bears team in 1934, the Green Bay Packers the ’44 champions and fifty years ago in ’74, the Pittsburgh Steelers won the first of their 6 Super Bowl titles, which is tied for the most such wins with the New England Patriots.
Each team has six.
After Giants assistant on the sidelines, Abe Cohen, (a la Mike Jones in the ’70’s via Pace University), got the team sneakers, at the half, Ken Strong pictured above, had 2 second half touchdown gallops (I like the terminology) as the New York Giants, trailing (13-3) entering “el” fourth quarter, stormed to a (30-13) win over the undefeated, defending champion Bears.
73 years passed and in 2007, the Giants again defeated an NFL unbeaten, this time an (18-0) New England Patriots’ team, in a game for the NFL crown.
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