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| discontinued       = [[1969 NFL season|1970]] (January 3)
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The '''Playoff Bowl''' (officially known as the '''Bert Bell Benefit Bowl''') was a [[Third place playoff|post-season game for third place]] in the [[National Football League]] (NFL), played ten times following the {{nfly|1960}} through {{nfly|1969}} seasons, all at the [[Miami Orange Bowl|Orange Bowl]] in [[Miami]], [[Florida]].<ref name="rsandomirnyt">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/sports/football/06sandomir.html?ref=sports |last=Sandomir |first=Richard|title=Little Consolation in Third-Place Game|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 6, 2011 |access-date=February 5, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=The NFL Used to Play a Third-Place Game, a "Losers' Bowl for Losers"|url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/54808/nfl-used-play-third-place-game-losers-bowl-losers|magazine=Mental Floss|access-date=31 January 2014|date=30 Jan 2014}}</ref> It was originally known as the '''Runner-Up Bowl'''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Brown, Lions Battle Today in NFL Runner-Up Bowl|date=January 7, 1961|newspaper=The Montgomery Advertiser|page=2B|agency=AP|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/80402130/|access-date=June 28, 2021|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>

The official title of '''Bert Bell Benefit Bowl''' came from the former [[History of the NFL Commissioner|NFL commissioner]], [[Bert Bell]]. Bell, who co-founded the Eagles and co-owned the Steelers, was commissioner of the NFL from {{nfly|1946}} until his death during an NFL game in October {{nfly|1959}}. The game funded what is league pension plan for players, now the Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Players Retirement Plan, and reportedly raised a million dollars over the decade of the 1960s.<ref name=fwmbo>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gFVQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lFcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7318,1094018|newspaper=St. Petersburg Independent |location=Florida |agency=Associated Press |title='Fun Week' may be over|date=January 6, 1969 |page=2C}}</ref> 

==Location==
All ten games in the Playoff Bowl series were contested at the [[Miami Orange Bowl|Orange Bowl]] in [[Miami, Florida|Miami]]. The games were played in January, the week following the [[NFL championship]] game (and the collegiate [[Orange Bowl (game)|Orange Bowl]] game on New Year's Day), except for the final year, when it was played the day before the NFL title game.  The [[National Football League|NFL's]] [[Pro Bowl]] ([[all-star]] game) was played the week after the Playoff Bowl.

==History==
After the {{nfly|1959}} season, NFL owners faced competition from the newly-formed [[American Football League]] and wanted a vehicle through which to showcase more of its supposedly superior NFL professional football product on television, then carried through the [[CBS|CBS Television Network]]. At the time, unlike the AFL, which had a contract with the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC Television Network]] for their nationally televised games, often double-headers, few NFL games were televised nationally during the season and there was only one scheduled post-season game, the NFL Championship Game.  The Playoff Bowl was devised to match the second-place teams from the NFL's two conferences (Eastern and Western).  This doubled from two to four the number of top NFL teams appearing in post-season play on national television. 

The [[1966 AFL season|1966]] season required another game following the [[American Football League]] Championship Game and the NFL Championship Game, the first of four [[Super Bowl|AFL&ndash;NFL World Championship Game]]s between the champions of the two major [[Professional Football]] leagues for the undisputed championship. The establishment of the AFL&ndash;NFL World Championship Game (the Super Bowl name was not made official until [[Super Bowl III]]) was the first phase of the [[AFL&ndash;NFL merger]] of June 1966. This new mega-game between the rival leagues was played in mid-January at a warm weather location, two weeks after the championship games for each league. The NFL's Playoff Bowl was played during the idle week, and because of AFL's equally major league status, interest in the game was waning. In addition, the arrival of the [[Miami Dolphins]] in [[1966 Miami Dolphins season|1966]] as an expansion franchise in the AFL reduced local interest in the game.

In the {{nfly|1967}} season, the NFL expanded to 16 teams and four scheduled post-season contests.  The NFL sub-divided its two conferences (now eight teams each) into two divisions of four teams each: The Capitol and Century divisions in the Eastern conference, and the Central and Coastal divisions in the Western conference.  The four division winners advanced to the post-season, competing for their conference titles in the first round of the NFL playoffs. The winners (conference champions) advanced to the NFL championship game, the losers (conference runners-up) appeared in the Playoff Bowl to vie for third place. For the three seasons ({{nfly|1967}}–[[1969 NFL season|69]]) preceding the {{nfly|1970}} merger with the [[American Football League|AFL]], the loser of the NFL's third place game ended up with a peculiar record of 0-2 for that post-season. In its final season in [[1969 American Football League season|1969]], the AFL also expanded to a four-team post-season, adding two more playoff games.

The highest attendance was over 65,500 in January 1966 for the [[1965 Baltimore Colts season|Baltimore Colts]]' rout of the  [[1965 Dallas Cowboys season|Dallas Cowboys]];<ref name=mlcroc>{{cite news |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1966/01/10/page/79/article/matte-leads-colts-rout-of-cowboys |last=Chicago Tribune |agency=Associated Press |title=Matte leads Colts' rout of Cowboys |date=January 10, 1966 |page=1, section 3}}</ref> the {{nfly|1965}} season was the last one prior to the Dolphins starting play, the [[AFL–NFL merger]] agreement, and the creation of the Super Bowl. In January 1968 and 1969, the Super Bowl was played in the Orange Bowl the following week, which further contributed to the declining attendance for the NFL's consolation game.

===The end of the Playoff Bowl===
When the merger was completed for the {{nfly|1970}} season, there was discussion about continuing the Playoff Bowl, with the losers of the [[American Football Conference|AFC]] and [[National Football Conference|NFC]] Championship Games playing each other during the idle week before the [[Super Bowl]]. There were now seven post-season games in the NFL (three for each conference, plus the Super Bowl), and the [[Pro Bowl]] all-star game.  A "losers' game" was not necessarily attractive for the league, and the Playoff Bowl came to an end.

===Official status===
The ten Playoff Bowls were official [[third place playoff]] games at the time they were played; today, the NFL consider the games as exhibitions.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2012/01/23/nfl-consolation-game-wasnt-exactly-a-super-idea/ |title=NFL consolation game wasn’t exactly a Super idea |publisher=Pasadena Star-News |access-date=10 March 2023 |quote=That game, the last Playoff Bowl ever, likely was the best postseason performance ever by the Rams. But don’t look for it in the NFL record book. The NFL has since designated Playoff Bowl games as exhibitions.}}</ref>

===Criticism===
[[Green Bay Packers]] coach [[Vince Lombardi]] detested the Playoff Bowl, coaching in the games following the [[1963 Green Bay Packers season|1963]] and [[1964 Green Bay Packers season|1964]] seasons, after winning NFL titles in [[1961 Green Bay Packers season|1961]] and [[1962 Green Bay Packers season|1962]]. To his players, he called it "the 'Shit Bowl', ...a losers' bowl for losers."  This lack of motivation may explain his Packers' rare postseason defeat in the 1964 game (January 1965) to the [[1964 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season|St. Louis Cardinals]]. After that loss, he fumed about "a hinky-dink football game, held in a hinky-dink town, played by hinky-dink players. That's all second place is &ndash; hinky dink."<ref name="rsandomirnyt"/>

Using the Playoff Bowl (and loss) as motivation in [[1965 Green Bay Packers season|1965]], the Packers won the first of three consecutive [[NFL championship]]s from 1965 to [[1967 Green Bay Packers season|1967]]. The Packers remain the sole NFL team to win three consecutive titles in the post-season era, which began in {{nfly|1933}}. During this successful run, the Packers also won the first two [[Super Bowl]]s in convincing fashion. Lombardi's final game (and victory) as [[head coach]] of the Packers was [[Super Bowl II]], played in the Orange Bowl in January 1968.

[[Pro Bowl|All-Pro]] [[tackle (American football)|defensive tackle]] [[Roger Brown (defensive tackle)|Roger Brown]] appeared in five Playoff Bowls, the most by any player, and was on the winning side each time ([[Detroit Lions]] in 1960, 1961, 1962; [[Los Angeles Rams]] in 1967, 1969). He said playing in those seemingly meaningless contests was like having "the worst [[inferiority complex]]." He added, "I was in five of them, and to have played in it five in the ten years it was in existence is pitiful."<ref name="rsandomirnyt"/>

The Lions also hold the dubious distinction of having the most victories in the Playoff Bowl, three, along with tying for the best [[winning percentage]], 1.000.

==Players' shares==
In its second year, the players on the winning team received $600 each ({{Inflation|US|600|1961|fmt=eq}}), the losers $400 ({{Inflation|US|400|1961|fmt=eq}});<ref name=effpbm>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ujMsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zssEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3802%2C603204 |newspaper=Spartanburg Herald |location=South Carolina |agency=Associated Press |title=Eagles favored in Playoff Bowl at Miami |date=January 6, 1962 |page=9}}</ref> and the fifth year game paid $800 ({{Inflation|US|800|1965|fmt=eq}}) and $600 ({{Inflation|US|600|1965|fmt=eq}}).<ref name=pcrevpob>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kA5XAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LUMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5933%2C364225 |newspaper=Reading Eagle |location=Pennsylvania |agency=UPI |title=Packers, Cards rated even for Playoff Bowl |date=January 2, 1965 |page=11 }}</ref> In its final years, the winners received $1,200 each ({{Inflation|US|1200|1970|fmt=eq}}), and the losers $500 ({{Inflation|US|500|1970|fmt=eq}}).<ref name=fwmbo/><ref name=prpipbg>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kdUzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fOkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6080%2C1022330|newspaper=Miami News|title=Pride richest plum in Playoff Bowl game|date=January 3, 1970|page=1-B}}</ref>

==Legacy==
The Playoff Bowl was typically held in the Orange Bowl stadium in Miami.  It led to [[Super Bowl II]] being held in Miami, the first of 11 Super Bowls held in Miami area, and is credited by [[NFL Films]] for the creation of the expansion [[Miami Dolphins]].  

The 1966 season Playoff Bowl game was used by [[NFL Films]] to put a microphone on [[1966 Philadelphia Eagles season|Philadelphia Eagles']] head coach [[Joe Kuharich]], which is credited by the league as part of the signature of NFL Films' videos featuring microphones on coaches and players.

That same Eagles-Colts Playoff Bowl marked the debut of the "slingshot" or "tuning fork" goalpost, with one curved support, in American football. This style of goalpost was first used by the [[Canadian Football League]] for the [[54th Grey Cup]] the previous November. The NFL adopted the single-support post for the [[1967 NFL season|1967 season]], and it continues to be used by the NFL and CFL, as well as most colleges and many high schools in both countries. 

One vestige of the Playoff Bowl remained through the 2008 season in that the head coaches of the losing teams from the conference championship games were the head coaches of their conferences' [[Pro Bowl]] teams. From 1980 to 2009, this [[all-star]] game was played at [[Aloha Stadium]] in [[Honolulu]] the Sunday following the [[Super Bowl]]. However, in [[2010 Pro Bowl|2010]], the Pro Bowl moved to Miami Gardens, Florida, and was played the week before [[Super Bowl XLIV]] (as the Playoff Bowl was in the Super Bowl era).

For the 2009 season, a new rule for determining the Pro Bowl coaches resulted in the disappearance of one Playoff Bowl legacy. The coaching staffs for the 2010 Pro Bowl did not come from the losers of the conference championship games, but instead from the teams with the best regular-season records among those that lost in the divisional round of the playoffs in each conference.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nfl.com/probowl/story?id=09000d5d81554233&template=with-video-with-comments&confirm=true |title=Pro Bowl selections, like game itself, will have new wrinkles |first=Steve |last=Wyche |website=NFL.com |date=2009-12-28 |access-date=2010-01-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100105150447/http://www.nfl.com/probowl/story?id=09000d5d81554233&template=with-video-with-comments&confirm=true |archive-date=2010-01-05 }}</ref>

==Playoff Bowl results==
All ten games were played at the [[Miami Orange Bowl|Orange Bowl]] in [[Miami]], [[Florida]]. Most were played the week following the NFL Championship game, with two exceptions: the first was played two weeks after and the last the day before. The first two games and the last one were played on Saturday, with the rest being played on Sunday. The Western Conference team won eight of the ten games.

{| class="wikitable"
!Season!! Date !! Winner !! Score!! Loser !! Attendance
|-
|align=center|[[1960 NFL season|1960]] ||January 7, 1961 &nbsp; || [[1960 Detroit Lions season|Detroit Lions]]  ||17–16 ||[[1960 Cleveland Browns season|Cleveland Browns]] || align=center|34,981
|-
|align=center|[[1961 NFL season|1961]]||January 6, 1962 || [[1961 Detroit Lions season|Detroit Lions]] ''(2)'' || 38–10||[[1961 Philadelphia Eagles season|Philadelphia Eagles]] || align=center|25,612
|-
|align=center|[[1962 NFL season|1962]]||January 6, 1963 || [[1962 Detroit Lions season|Detroit Lions]] ''(3)''  || 17–10|| [[1962 Pittsburgh Steelers season|Pittsburgh Steelers]] || align=center|36,284
|-
|align=center|[[1963 NFL season|1963]]||January 5, 1964 || [[1963 Green Bay Packers season|Green Bay Packers]]  || 40–23 || [[1963 Cleveland Browns season|Cleveland Browns]] || align=center|54,921
|-
|align=center|[[1964 NFL season|1964]]||January 3, 1965 ||[[1964 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season|St. Louis Cardinals]]  || 24–17|| [[1964 Green Bay Packers season|Green Bay Packers]] || align=center|56,218
|-
|align=center|[[1965 NFL season|1965]]||January 9, 1966 || [[1965 Baltimore Colts season|Baltimore Colts]]  ||35–3||[[1965 Dallas Cowboys season|Dallas Cowboys]] || align=center|65,569
|-
|align=center|[[1966 NFL season|1966]]||January 8, 1967 || [[1966 Baltimore Colts season|Baltimore Colts]] ''(2)''  ||20–14 || [[1966 Philadelphia Eagles season|Philadelphia Eagles]] || align=center|58,088
|-
|align=center|[[1967 NFL season|1967]]||January 7, 1968 || [[1967 Los Angeles Rams season|Los Angeles Rams]]  ||30–6|| [[1967 Cleveland Browns season|Cleveland Browns]] || align=center|37,102
|-
|align=center|[[1968 NFL season|1968]]||January 5, 1969 || [[1968 Dallas Cowboys season|Dallas Cowboys]] ||17–13 || [[1968 Minnesota Vikings season|Minnesota Vikings]] || align=center|22,961
|-
|align=center|[[1969 NFL season|1969]]||January 3, 1970 || [[1969 Los Angeles Rams season|Los Angeles Rams]] ''(2)'' &nbsp; || 31–0||[[1969 Dallas Cowboys season|Dallas Cowboys]] || align=center|31,151
|}

===Records by team===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Games!!Team!!W!!L!!PCT!!Won &nbsp;(3rd)!!Lost &nbsp;(4th)
|-
|align="center"|3||[[Detroit Lions]]||align="center"|3||align="center"|0||align="right"|1.000 ||[[1960 Detroit Lions season|1960]], [[1961 Detroit Lions season|1961]], [[1962 Detroit Lions season|1962]] ||
|-
|align="center"|3||[[Dallas Cowboys]]||align="center"|1||align="center"|2||align="right"|.333 || [[1968 Dallas Cowboys season|1968]] || [[1965 Dallas Cowboys season|1965]], [[1969 Dallas Cowboys season|1969]]
|-
|align="center"|3||[[Cleveland Browns]]||align="center"|0||align="center"|3||align="right"|.000 || ||[[1960 Cleveland Browns season|1960]], [[1963 Cleveland Browns season|1963]], [[1967 Cleveland Browns season|1967]]
|-
|align="center"|2||[[History of the Baltimore Colts|Baltimore Colts]]||align="center"|2||align="center"|0||align="right"|1.000 || [[1965 Baltimore Colts season|1965]], [[1966 Baltimore Colts season|1966]]||
|-
|align="center"|2||[[Los Angeles Rams]]||align="center"|2||align="center"|0||align="right"|1.000 || [[1967 Los Angeles Rams season|1967]], [[1969 Los Angeles Rams season|1969]] ||
|-
|align="center"|2||[[Green Bay Packers]]||align="center"|1||align="center"|1||align="right"|.500 ||[[1963 Green Bay Packers season|1963]] || [[1964 Green Bay Packers season|1964]]
|-
|align="center"|2||[[Philadelphia Eagles]]||align="center"|0||align="center"|2||align="right"|.000 || || [[1961 Philadelphia Eagles season|1961]], [[1966 Philadelphia Eagles season|1966]] 
|-
|align="center"|1||[[History of the St. Louis Cardinals (NFL)|St. Louis Cardinals]]||align="center"|1||align="center"|0||align="right"|1.000 || [[1964 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season|1964]] ||
|-
|align="center"|1||[[Minnesota Vikings]]||align="center"|0||align="center"|1||align="right"|.000 || || [[1968 Minnesota Vikings season|1968]]
|-
|align="center"|1||[[Pittsburgh Steelers]]||align="center"|0||align="center"|1||align="right"|.000  || || [[1962 Pittsburgh Steelers season|1962]]
|}

==Broadcasters==
{| class=wikitable
!Season!!|Network!!|[[Play-by-play]]!!|[[Color commentator|Color commentator(s)]]!!|Sideline reporter(s)
|-
|[[1960 NFL season|1960]]
|align=center|[[NFL on CBS|CBS]]
|[[Ken Coleman]] (first half) and [[Van Patrick]] (second half)
|[[Johnny Lujack]] 
|
|-
|[[1961 NFL season|1961]]<ref>[http://the506.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1225538101 1961 NFL-AFL Commentator Crews]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
|align=center|[[NFL on CBS|CBS]]
|[[Chris Schenkel]] (first half) and [[Van Patrick]] (second half)
|[[Johnny Lujack]] 
|
|-
|[[1962 NFL season|1962]]<ref>[http://the506.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1224414525 1962 NFL-AFL Commentator Crews]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 
|align=center|[[NFL on CBS|CBS]]
|[[Chris Schenkel]] (first half) and [[Ray Scott (sportscaster)|Ray Scott]] (second half) 
|[[Warren Lahr]]
|
|-
|[[1963 NFL season|1963]]<ref>[http://the506.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1223731385 1963 NFL-AFL Commentator Crews] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211144654/http://the506.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1223731385 |date=2008-12-11 }}</ref> 
|align=center|[[NFL on CBS|CBS]]
|[[Ray Scott (sportscaster)|Ray Scott]] (first half) and [[Ken Coleman]] (second half)
|[[Frank Gifford]]
|
|-
|[[1964 NFL season|1964]]<ref>[http://the506.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1223123501 1964 NFL-AFL Commentator Crews] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211144650/http://the506.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1223123501 |date=2008-12-11 }}</ref> 
|align=center|[[NFL on CBS|CBS]] 
|[[Jack Drees]] (first half) and [[Earl Gillespie]] (second half)
|[[Frank Gifford]] 
|
|-
|[[1965 NFL season|1965]]<ref>[http://the506.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1222283375 1965 NFL-AFL Commentator Crews] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211144644/http://the506.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1222283375 |date=2008-12-11 }}</ref> 
|align=center|[[NFL on CBS|CBS]]
|[[Frank Glieber]] (first half) and [[Chuck Thompson]] (second half) 
|[[Pat Summerall]]
|
|-
|[[1966 NFL season|1966]]<ref>[http://the506.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1221529501 1966 NFL-AFL Commentator Crews] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211144637/http://the506.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1221529501 |date=2008-12-11 }}</ref> 
|align=center|[[NFL on CBS|CBS]]
|[[Chuck Thompson]]
|[[Tom Brookshier]]
|
|-
|[[1967 NFL season|1967]]<ref>[http://the506.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1220570421 1967 NFL-AFL Commentator Crews] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211144631/http://the506.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1220570421 |date=2008-12-11 }}</ref> 
|align=center|[[NFL on CBS|CBS]]
|[[Frank Glieber]] 
|[[Frank Gifford]] 
|
|-
|[[1968 NFL season|1968]]<ref>[http://the506.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1220468049 1968 NFL-AFL Commentator Crews] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211144626/http://the506.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1220468049 |date=2008-12-11 }}</ref> 
|align=center|[[NFL on CBS|CBS]]
|[[Ray Scott (sportscaster)|Ray Scott]]
|[[Paul Christman]] 
|[[Frank Glieber]] 
|-
|[[1969 NFL season|1969]]<ref>[http://the506.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1220449486 1969 NFL-AFL Commentator Crews] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211144621/http://the506.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1220449486 |date=2008-12-11 }}</ref> 
|align=center|[[NFL on CBS|CBS]]
|[[Jack Whitaker]]
|[[Frank Gifford]] and [[Don Perkins]] 
|
|}

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}
*''NFL Record and Fact Book'' ({{ISBN|1-932994-36-X}})
*''When Pride Still Mattered, A Life of Vince Lombardi,'' by David Maraniss, 1999, p.&nbsp;362 ({{ISBN|0-684-84418-4}})
*http://www.pro-football-reference.com - Large online database of NFL data and statistics
*''ProLog/The National Football League Annual 1970-71,'' by Bob Oates, Jr., NFL Properties, 1971, ({{ISBN|0-695-80261-5}})

==Further reading==
* {{cite web |url=https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3498911/on-this-date-in-sports-january-5-1964-a-shit-bowl-for-losers |title=On This Date in Sports January 5, 1964: A Shit Bowl for Losers |author=Frank The Tank |website=[[Barstool Sports]] |date=January 5, 2024 |accessdate=January 5, 2024}}
* {{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/sports/football/06sandomir.html |title=Little Consolation in Third-Place Game |first=Richard |last=Sandomir |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=Sports 13 |date=February 6, 2011 |via=nytimes.com |accessdate=January 5, 2024}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070415053025/http://www.mmbolding.com/BSR/The_Playoff_Bowl.htm The Bert Bell Playoff Bowl]

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