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The NFL playoffs following the 1967 NFL season culminated in the 1967 title game on New Year's Eve, and determined who would represent the league against the American Football League champions in Super Bowl II. This was the first season that the NFL used a four-team playoff tournament. The four division winners advanced to the postseason, with the two division winners in each conference meeting in the first round (effectively being conference championship games). The Championship Game was the famous Ice Bowl, played in Green Bay on December 31. Although the Baltimore Colts (11–1–2) had tied for the best record in the league, they lost the new division tie-breaker to the Los Angeles Rams and were excluded from the playoffs. Home field in the playoffs was still determined by a yearly rotation. Seeding the playoff teams by regular season records did not occur until the season. This is why the Rams (11–1–2) played a road game against the Packers (9–4–1). ==Tournament bracket== Within each conference, the two division winners qualified for the playoffs. In the first round, the Capitol Division winner met the Century Division winner in the Eastern Conference Game, while the Coastal Division winner faced the Central Division winner in the Western Conference Game. The winners of the two conference games advanced to the NFL Championship Game to compete for the NFL league title and the right to face the American Football League champion in the Super Bowl. The NFL did not use a seeding system until the 1975 season, and instead home teams alternated by division in the first round, and alternated by conference in the second round. The losers of the Conference Championship games would then play in the Playoff Bowl, a third place playoff game held at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1967 NFL playoffs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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