1950: Bears VS Giants

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Both didn't play each other during the season. Had there been no tie-breaker games determining the two conference champions, it would have been these two playing for the NFL Title being that both teams swept Rams & Browns respectively. Who wins? And, at risk of taking anything away from Cleveland (or Rams), does anyone feel that it should have been Bears/Giants automatically slated for Title Game? Or is the attitude simply that both teams should have won that extra game during season or at least, especially, win when it truly mattered in the playoff game? I go with the latter.

[74_75_78_79_]

I got a question about the ’50 post-season and thought I ask it by reviving this post. I’m not sure if I already asked this on another thread, but what was the reasoning behind both tie-breakers being played at both LA and Cleveland respectively when it was both Rams and Browns who got swept by Bears and Giants in each case. Still having tie-breaker games despite the sweeps understandable enough, but shouldn’t each game have been at the other opponents’ stadiums instead?

[Jay Z]

I got a question about the ’50 post-season and thought I ask it by reviving this post. I’m not sure if I already asked this on another thread, but what was the reasoning behind both tie-breakers being played at both LA and Cleveland respectively when it was both Rams and Browns who got swept by Bears and Giants in each case. Still having tie-breaker games despite the sweeps understandable enough, but shouldn’t each game have been at the other opponents’ stadiums instead?

All of the sites for those games were likely decided by coin flip. Just how they did it for baseball when they had similar playoffs.

I understand why they had to go, but the playoffs were a better method for breaking ties than any sort of tiebreaker, including head to head. You beat your big rival twice? Great, you've got a two game lead. Should be no problem closing it out, then.

Those teams were tied because the head to head winner lost two other games that the head to head loser did not lose. In the case of the Bears, it was interesting. 1950 NFL had 13 teams, and the Colts (who were terrible) played a round robin schedule. Except they played the Redskins twice. The Colts and Redskins were not in the same division. The Colts were in the same division as the Bears, but they didn't play, because the Colts played the Redskins twice. The Bears played the Cardinals twice instead. The Bears lost one of the games to the Cardinals.

The Packers also beat the Colts twice in 1965, though the site for that playoff game was in Green Bay. To mollify people who think Chandler missed his regulation field goal.