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NFL Championship Game, 1957

1957 NFL Championship Game
1 2 3 4 Total
Cleveland Browns 0 7 7 0 14
Detroit Lions 17 14 14 14 59
Date December 29, 1957
Stadium Briggs Stadium, Detroit
Referee Ron Gibbs
Attendance 55,263
TV in the United States
Network NBC
Announcers Van Patrick, Ken Coleman,
and Red Grange
Radio in the United States
Network NBC
Announcers Ray Scott, Bill McColgan

The 1957 National Football League championship game was the 25th annual championship game, held on December 29 at Briggs Stadium in Detroit, Michigan.

The Detroit Lions (8–4), winners of the Western Conference, hosted the Cleveland Browns (9–2–1), champions of the Eastern Conference. Detroit had won the regular season game 20–7 three weeks earlier on December 8, also at Briggs Stadium, but lost quarterback Bobby Layne with a broken right ankle late in the first half. Reserve quarterback Tobin Rote, a starter the previous year with Green Bay, filled in for Layne and won that game with Cleveland, the next week at Chicago, and the tiebreaker playoff game at San Francisco.

It was the fourth pairing of the two teams in the championship game; they met previously in 1952, 1953, and 1954. The Browns were favored by three points, but the home underdog Lions scored two touchdowns in each quarter and won in a rout, 59–14.

As of 2016, this was the last playoff game played in the city of Detroit other than Super Bowl XL in 2006. The Lions other two home playoff games since 1957 (1991 and 1993) were played at the Pontiac Silverdome in nearby Pontiac, Michigan.


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