If coming in second topographic point just make you the first failure , what can be tell about a team that finishes in third ? Well , for ten season ( 1960 - 69 ) of NFL football game , they ’d call you the winner ofthe Playoff Bowl .
formally nominate the Bert Bell Benefit Bowl after a league commissioner who suffer a fatal heart flak in 1959 , it was played the week after the NFL Championship game ( except for the 1969 plot , which took situation the day before ) at the Orange Bowl in Miami . The participant were the second - place team of the NFL ’s Eastern and Western league .
The Playoff Bowl gave the fans another dose of playoff activity and raise over a million dollar sign for the Bert Bell players ' pension fund , but it was not without its critics . Hall of Fame autobus Vince Lombardireferred to itas " the Shit Bowl " and predict it " a losers ' bowl for loser . " Lombardi went on to say the Playoff Bowl was “ a hinky - dink football game game , concord in a hinky - dink townsfolk , played by hinky - dink players . That ’s all second situation is – hinky dink . "
Even those who came out on the winning side had their complaint . Roger Brown , who win all five Playoff Bowls he played in , called his participation “ pitiful . “
It took some time , but the NFL finally came to jibe . In 1970 , when the amalgamation with the AFL was complete , the conference decided to give up the Playoff Bowl . Further distance itself from the “ losers ' stadium for loser ” ( and also the pensions of retired instrumentalist ) , the NFL only recognizes the Playoff Bowl as an exposition game — making the prescribed rubric of third position nothing more than " best type scenario " for the New York Jets .
Playoff Bowl Winners
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