The DUMBEST PLAYOFF SCENARIO in AFL HISTORY

How do you break up a tie between three teams in the most unfair way possible? Leave it to the American Football League to find a way
In 1968, there was a scenario unfolding in the Western Division where the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oakland Raiders, and the San Diego Chargers would all find themselves tied for first place in the division. How would the tie be broken? Not just a series of coin flips, but through one of the most unfair systems ever, where one team heavily benefitted as a result
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[@msarzo]

The three-team tiebreaker essentially could've made the Chargers the No. 1 seed in the Western Division playoffs. Definitely not fair.

[@MikeyKaos716]

The helmets are the 1968 Raiders game results, in order, from top left to bottom right. Facing right is a Raiders win, left is a loss.

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

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[@LegendaryDorkKnight]

I knew it was the opponents the Raiders played (since he mentioned the Raiders' final three games and the Raiders weren't up there), but I for some reason couldn't figure out the direction condition.

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Excellent! Thanks for the answer!

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I like that viewers of this channel are so in tune with NFL history that there is no need to explain the Heidi game.

[@ShrexyGuy]

The chargers chargering being a decades old occurrence never ceases to tickle my fancy

[@MichaelPiz]

Instead of coin flips, here's your three-team tiebreaker: The starting middle linebackers from each team in a cage match. Three men enter, one man leaves.

[@lionsfan7500]

Dang that Joe lol. Great video as usual my friend!

[@randytracy1742]

Nice video- I talked about this situation two days ago and I agree what happened in 1968 was unfair and it was avoided in 1969 when the afl put in the only playoff format in its history-the first place teamin inthe western division would play the second place teamin the eastern division and vice versa- by the way , the name of the team in 1963 was the Boston patriots, not New England as they are now called- good stuff! 😊😊😊😊😊

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JG I love you you go back to the late 1960s and 1970s for I love NFL history

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Justice for Caleb!

[@JayTemple]

There are no 3-sided coins. However, an ordinary die, such as those used in Yahtzee and Monopoly, has six sides, which means you can choose the team with the bye and the host team for the first game in a single roll.

[@marcus813]

Thank goodness for real tiebreakers these days. Getting to the point where someone got to have a week off in the scenario discussed regardless of who hosted is pretty bizarre.

[@epholson97]

At the 6:40 mark. You said well over 40 points per game but you got that with the 112 points the raiders scored over 3 games... My math says that's just a little under 40 points per game... Unless I misheard what you said. Sorry, I've just never heard you make a mistake without catching it yourself first. Love everything about this channel and I hope you can see that I'm only joking, trying to entertain myself on my long trek to work. Appreciate all that you do and thank you immensely for it all!

[@toddbiesel4288]

I also noticed that the Raiders were mistakenly called Houston near the end of the video.

[@cmd31220]

Nah, the dumbest is still the Chargers and Raiders only needing a tie to both get in and the Chargers saying no. I miss you already Staley

[@j6t714]

This came very close to happening in the 1957 NFL season in the Western Conference. Colts, 49ers and Lions were all 7-4 going into the last week and I think the Colts were in the position that the 1968 Chargers would have been in here. But the Colts lost to drop out and the 49ers hosted the Lions in the tiebreaker, with Detroit rallying to win. The Lions routed Cleveland in the championship game the following week.

[@harpercole5321]

Going by the source at 10:37, the Chargers would have been the away team if it had been a two-way tiebreaker situation. The Raiders-Chiefs home field advantage was also flipped between the two-way and three-way scenarios. I guess they were trying to make it fair that way.

[@MichaelMitchRailfan2009]

What was more worse in this AFL playoff scenario, Jets got the No. 1 seed and got a bye week instead of raiders

[@dangeiger9796]

There are several possible JG7 videos about weird tie breaker situations. One that comes to mind is the 1998 NL Wild Card where the Cubs, Giants and Mets could have finished in a three way tie. Fortunately the Mets collapsed and avoided a crazy three way tie situation

[@Tubewings]

The Patriots were known as the Boston Patriots from the 1960 to 1970 seasons. They didnt become New England until they moved to Foxborough in 1971.

[@jab1289]

A bigger joke: The Chargers were 8-5-1 in 1969, but missed the playoffs because of a stupid format (the 6-6-2 Oilers went to the playoffs instead, finishing second in a weaker division. AFL should have taken the two best non-division winners, not the two second place teams).

[@darrellmayberry7784]

@jab1289 you are spot on about that and a Chargers-Raiders playoff would have been better than the 56-7 beating the Oilers took in that playoff game.

[@kingrex1931]

"The Chargers get the bye week under this scenario between the three teams we're watching, and they get to host the western championship too. How is that fair?" It's fair to the Chargers.

[@GetRidOfCivilAssetForfeiture]

The NFL had a possibility of a 3-way tie for first in 1935 (because they failed to learn the lesson of 1932 because they failed to count tie games in the standings) in two different ways in the West Division (Packers, Lions and Cardinals; Lions, Bears and Cardinals), a 3-way tie in 1943 in the East Division (Washington, Giants and Phil-Pitt), a 4-way tie in the National Conference in 1951 (Rams, Bears, 49ers and Lions) and a 3-way tie in the Western Conference in 1957 (Lions, 49ers and Colts).

[@fortynights1513]

35 also was the season before every team was regularly scheduled to play the same number of games

[@GetRidOfCivilAssetForfeiture]

The NFL could have had a 3-way tie two different ways in the West Division in 1935. The Packers still win their last game and finish 8-4-0, the Lions tie their last game instead of winning and finish 6-3-3, and the Cardinals tie their last game instead of losing and finish 6-3-3. Back then, ties didn’t count in the standings and thus all three teams would have a winning percentage of .667 (the NFL did not learn anything from 1932). The other scenario could have been the Bears still beat the Cardinals for their last games, and the Lions and Packers lose their last games. The Bears, Cardinals and Lions finish 6-4-2 and the Packers finish 7-5-0. This gives the Lions, Cardinals and Bears a .600 winning percentage (remember, ties are tossed out and not counted) and the Packers a .583 winning percentage. In 1943, if the Phil-Pitt Steagles win their last game of the season, they would have been in a 3-way tie with the Giants and Washington at 6-3-1 in the East Division. In 1951, if the 49ers still beat the Lions in their last games and the Rams and Bears tie instead of winning and losing, respectively, there would have been a 4-way tie with records of 7-4-1 in the National Conference. If the Colts would have won their final game in the 1957 season, then the Colts, Lions and 49ers would have been tied at 8-4-0 in the Western Conference.

[@kvngof0634]

Helmets might represent the evolution of the then-recent merger between the AFL and NFL. The rows represent a shift in the division and their respective winners through the earliest seasons..

[@thomaskeane5723]

This sounds like the playoff tiebreaker from "Friday Night Lights."

[@clydemiller4776]

15:35 As early as 1968, the Chargers were Chargering.

[@RetroJR3379]

On the helmet im going to say that was the final week matchup

[@Jason_Maier]

Well the AFL got it right and wrong for the 1969 playoffs: Right in that they had both second place teams as Wild Cards; wrong in that it was a crossover playoff format in the divisional round (1st place teams played the second place teams in the opposite division).

[@Donald_the_Potholer]

In my opinion, the AFL was _right_ . Looking at Spring Football Leagues, you play the teams from the same division twice and the teams from the opposite division once. Requiring same-division semis would introduce the possibility of the final game of the season being replicated the following week. Cross-division semis prevents this, at the cost of "naming a champion on the field"; instead, you name the division champ _through the standings_ .

[@BrockBoone]

1968 chargers really collapsed

[@anthonyrivera4735]

Is it possible to have a three-team tiebreaker in today's NFL?

[@RetroJR3379]

It may happen this weekend with both AFC South & NFC South if im not mistaken

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Yep. Happens quite a lot

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[@RetroJR3379]

So in the end 1968 Chargers turned into 2023 Chargers

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