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| Date | January 3, 1971 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Stadium | Memorial Stadium, Baltimore, Maryland | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Ben Dreith | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 54,799 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Raiders: Al Davis (owner/general manager), John Madden (head coach), Fred Biletnikoff, George Blanda, Willie Brown, Jim Otto, Art Shell, Ken Stabler, Gene Upshaw Colts: Ted Hendricks, John Mackey, Johnny Unitas | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | NBC | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Curt Gowdy and Kyle Rote | ||||||||||||||||||
The 1970 AFC Championship Game was the inaugural title game[a] of the American Football Conference (AFC). Played on January 3, 1971, the game was hosted by the AFC East champion Baltimore Colts who played the AFC West champion Oakland Raiders at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland.[1] Along with the 1970 NFC Championship Game played on the same day, this game constituted the penultimate round of the 1970–71 NFL playoffs which had followed the 1970 regular season of the National Football League.
Baltimore defeated Oakland 27–17[2] to earn the right to represent the AFC in Super Bowl V.
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- ^ "First AFC Championship Game". Sports History Network. June 15, 2020. Retrieved October 26, 2021.
- ^ "Pro Football Reference". Pro-Football-Reference.com.