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Originally Posted by lakefront
Exactly....the game is very different now. As you said, its even different from the 70's. It changes constantly. Does that make it better? Is it better now than in the early 90's before they started protecting QBs? I realize this is always going to be an ongoing argument but as a fan of the NFL from the 60's I know that it was a great game with great teams and I hate to just see that part of the league's history dismissed because the championship game wasn't called a Super Bowl.
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its not that it wasnt called a super bowl, it is that it is akin to the NFC or AFC championship game.
You can claim the past NFL and AFL championships, but it doesnt compare to a superbowl where you are taking the best of both, after beating the best from each, and being the winner of that.