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The 1983-84 NFL Divisional Round game began a streak of playoff success for San Francisco -based teams over their Detroit counterparts. In 2012, the San Francisco Giants swept the Detroit Tigers in the World Series, then in 2024, the 49ers again defeated the Lions in the NFC Championship. Previous playoff games.
1957 NFL playoffs. The 1957 National Football League season resulted in a tie for the Western Conference championship between the Detroit Lions and San Francisco 49ers. Both finished at 8–4 and had split their two games during the regular season in November, with the home team winning each. The tie thus required a one-game playoff to be held ...
[8] [9] 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. [7] It was the fourth pairing of the two teams in the championship game; they met previously in 1952, 1953, and 1954.
The 1983 Detroit Lions season was the 54th season in franchise history. Despite a 1–4 start, the Lions rallied to finish with a 9–7 record. They were able to rise to the top of a weak NFC Central (three of the other four teams went 8–8, and Tampa Bay tied for the NFL's worst record at 2–14), to claim their first division championship since 1957, made the playoffs in a non-strike season ...
1970–71 NFL playoffs. The National Football League playoffs for the 1970 season began on December 26, 1970. The postseason tournament concluded with the Baltimore Colts defeating the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl V, 16–13, on January 17, 1971, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida . This was the first playoff tournament after the AFL–NFL ...
1958 →. The 1957 San Francisco 49ers season was the team's eighth season in the NFL. Coming off a 5–6–1 record in 1956, the 49ers tied for the best record in the Western Conference at 8–4. San Francisco continued their late-season success from the previous year, and won five of their first six games, and were in first place in the West ...
No. 3 seed Detroit Lions at No. 1 seed San Francisco 49ers The coaches : Lions — Dan Campbell (29-33-1 overall, 24-26-1 with Lions, 2-0 in playoffs); 49ers — Kyle Shanahan (64-51 overall, 64 ...
49ers running back Ricky Watters rushed for 118 yards, caught five passes for 46 yards, and scored an NFL playoff record five touchdowns as San Francisco crushed the Giants, 44–3. The 49ers racked up 413 yards of offense, with an average of 6.4 yards per play, while holding the Giants to just 194 yards, 4 sacks, and forcing three turnovers.