Hah, sorry about that. I just meant that the 1968 game was sort of a quasi-Divisional Round game as we currently know it -- a special tiebreaker for No. 1 in the West that year, but not part of the normal playoff structure the same way the current bracket provides for. So between that and technically happening in a separate league, it's unclear whether that should be considered the same "round" as today's Divisional games for the purposes of these kinds of queries. (But maybe it should! It was 3 games from the Super Bowl, the same way Bills-Ravens is...)
I really expected it to be the Buffalo-KC 13 seconds game in the divisional round of 2021. Going into that game felt like the Super Bowl (although neither team even made it there thanks to the Bengals)
That one is right on the border of the Top 10 all-time -- KC was a 1699 and BUF a 1683 before the game (it's remarkable how both teams have only gotten better since then, for a metric with a strong mean-reversion element to it)
I'm not on board with the dig at the AFL!
Hah, sorry about that. I just meant that the 1968 game was sort of a quasi-Divisional Round game as we currently know it -- a special tiebreaker for No. 1 in the West that year, but not part of the normal playoff structure the same way the current bracket provides for. So between that and technically happening in a separate league, it's unclear whether that should be considered the same "round" as today's Divisional games for the purposes of these kinds of queries. (But maybe it should! It was 3 games from the Super Bowl, the same way Bills-Ravens is...)
I really expected it to be the Buffalo-KC 13 seconds game in the divisional round of 2021. Going into that game felt like the Super Bowl (although neither team even made it there thanks to the Bengals)
That one is right on the border of the Top 10 all-time -- KC was a 1699 and BUF a 1683 before the game (it's remarkable how both teams have only gotten better since then, for a metric with a strong mean-reversion element to it)