It had been a dry football decade for the good people of the Twin Cities as the 1987 Minnesota Vikings prepared for the season. After their team dominated its division and won three NFC titles in the 1970s, the winning slowed down in the 1980s. The last playoff appearance had been in the strike-torn year […]
In the first part of TheSportsNotebook’s NFL Championship Sunday extravaganza, we opened up NFL championship history to look at 1978, and celebrated the greatness of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys. But the downside of that was, the games were lacking in drama. To pick a year where both championship games went down to the wire, let’s focus in on 1987, a year I would argue was the best in terms of competitive drama. Both title games went down to a final battle on the goal line