1969 American Football League Championship Game
The 1969 AFL Championship Game was the 10th and final championship game of the American Football League, and the league's final game prior to its merger with the National Football League on February 1, 1970.
Chiefs running back Robert Holmes (center) rushing against the Raiders in the championship game. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | January 4, 1970 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Stadium | Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, California | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Oakland by 4 to 5½ points | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 54,544 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Chiefs: Lamar Hunt (owner), Hank Stram (head coach), Bobby Bell, Buck Buchanan, Curley Culp, Len Dawson, Willie Lanier, Johnny Robinson, Jan Stenerud, Emmitt Thomas Raiders: Al Davis (owner/general manager), John Madden (head coach), Fred Biletnikoff, George Blanda, Willie Brown, Jim Otto, Art Shell, Gene Upshaw | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | NBC | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Curt Gowdy, Kyle Rote | ||||||||||||||||||
The game was held on January 4, 1970, at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum between the Western Division champion Oakland Raiders (12–1–1) and the division's second-place team, the Kansas City Chiefs (11–3). The two teams had the best records in the AFL regular season and both had won divisional playoff games two weeks earlier to advance to the championship. Oakland had swept the two hard-fought regular season games between the two teams, were favored by 4 to 5½ points, and had taken seven of the last eight meetings.
Tied at halftime, the Chiefs won 17–7 on the strength of seventeen unanswered points in the last three quarters and represented the AFL in Super Bowl IV the following week. This was the 616th and final AFL game.