1967 American Football League Championship Game
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| Date | December 31, 1967 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Stadium | Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, California | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | John McDonough | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 53,330 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | NBC | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Curt Gowdy, Paul Christman | ||||||||||||||||||
The 1967 American Football League Championship Game was the eighth AFL championship game, played on December 31 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland, California.
It matched the Western Division champion Oakland Raiders (13–1) and the Eastern Division champion Houston Oilers (9–4–1) to decide the American Football League (AFL) champion for the 1967 season.
Quarterback Daryle Lamonica, claimed on waivers from the Buffalo Bills in the offseason, led the Raiders to a 13–1 record, throwing 30 touchdown passes in the process. The Oilers went from last place in the East in 1966 (3–11) to first in 1967, beating out the New York Jets by a game. Most of the Oilers' offense centered on big fullback Hoyle Granger, and a midseason quarterback trade for the shifty Pete Beathard (sending their own starter, Jacky Lee, to the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs) proved to be the spark that turned Houston's season around.
The two teams had met three weeks earlier in Houston, with Oakland winning 19–7 to clinch the Western division title.
In contrast to the frigid conditions earlier in the day at the NFL championship game in Green Bay, the temperature for the AFL title game in northern California was 47 °F (8 °C). The host Raiders were 10½-point favorites.
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