1965 American Football League season

1965 American Football League season

Infobox AFL
year = 1965
NFLchampion = Buffalo Bills
regular_season = September 11 1965 - December 19 1965
playoffs_start = December 26 1965
sb_name = XL
sb_date = December 26 1965
sb_site = Balboa Stadium, San Diego, California
pb_date =

The 1965 American Football League season was the sixth regular season of the American Football League.

The season ended when the Buffalo Bills defeated the San Diego Chargers in the AFL Championship game. The next season, the AFL would join the NFL to form the AFL-NFL World Championship game, known today as the Super Bowl.

Division Races

The AFL had 8 teams, grouped into two divisions. Each team would play a home-and-away game against the other 7 teams in the league for a total of 14 games, and the best team in the Eastern Division would play against the best in the Western Division in a championship game. If there was tie in the standings, a playoff would be held to determine the division winner.

There was little drama in either of the AFL's division races in 1965. The Bills led the Eastern Division from start to finish, ending five games ahead of the 5-8-1 Jets. In the Western Division, San Diego had three potential wins cancelled out when they were tied by Kansas City (10-10), Boston (13-13) and Buffalo (20-20), but their 9-2-3 finish (.818) was well ahead of Oakland's 8-5-1 record (.615).


* — Qualified for Championship Game.

Playoffs

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*AFL Championship Game
*:Buffalo Bills 23, San Diego Chargers 0, December 26, 1965, Balboa Stadium, San Diego, California

External links

* [http://www.databasefootball.com/boxscores/scheduleyear.htm?yr=1965&lg=afl Football Database]

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