1969 NFL season

1969 NFL season

Anniversary logo for the NFL's 50th season
Regular season
Duration	September 21 – December 21, 1969
Playoffs
East Champions	Cleveland Browns
West Champions	Minnesota Vikings
Championship Game
Champions	Minnesota Vikings
← 1968 NFL seasons 1970 →

Cowboys

Eagles

.... Redskins

Saints

Browns

Giants

Cardinals

Steelers ....

Rams

Falcons

49ers

Colts

Packers

Lions

Vikings

Bears

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NFL teams: Coastal, Central, Century, Capitol

The 1969 NFL season was the 50th regular season of the National Football League, and its last before the AFL–NFL merger. To honor the NFL's fiftieth season, a special anniversary logo was designed and each player wore a patch on their jerseys with this logo throughout the season.

Per the agreement made during the 1967 season, the New Orleans Saints and the New York Giants switched divisions again, returning to the 1967 alignment.

The season ended when the Minnesota Vikings defeated the Cleveland Browns in the NFL championship game, earning the right to face the American Football League's champion Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl IV at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans. This was the last awarding of the Ed Thorp Memorial Trophy to the NFL champion; it was introduced 35 years earlier in 1934.

As was the case the previous season, the NFL champion was not crowned as the "world champion" because of the Vikings' 23–7 loss to the Chiefs in the Super Bowl. This occurrence can no longer happen, as the AFL and the NFL completed their merger the following season (1970), realigned into two 13-team conferences (AFC, NFC) in one league (the NFL), with the conference champions meeting in the Super Bowl.