1984 NFL Season Trivia

• The 1984 NFL season was the 65th regular season of the National Football League.
• The Colts relocated from Baltimore, Maryland to Indianapolis, Indiana before the season.
• The season ended with Super Bowl XIX when the San Francisco 49ers defeated the Miami Dolphins 38–16 at Stanford Stadium in California.
• This was the first Super Bowl televised by ABC, who entered into the annual championship game rotation with CBS and NBC.
• This game marked the second shortest distance between the Super Bowl host stadium (Stanford, California) and a Super Bowl team (San Francisco 49ers).
• The 49ers became the first team in NFL history to win 15 games in a regular season and to win 18 in an entire season (including the postseason).
• Another statistical record broken was Mark Gastineau for most sacks in a single season, with 22 (surpassed by Michael Strahan in 2001).
• In a week 10 game against the Kansas City Chiefs, the Seattle Seahawks set numerous NFL records for interception returns, including most interception return yardage in a game and most interceptions returned for touchdowns in a game with 4 (all touchdowns over 50 yards in length).
• Salaries increased significantly over the past two seasons in the NFL, up nearly fifty percent; new Houston Oilers quarterback Warren Moon led the list at $1.1 million.
• The NFL season began on September 10, 1984.
• The season ended with the Super Bowl on January 30, 1985.
• The 1984 season was the third year of the league's five-year broadcast contracts with ABC, CBS, and NBC.
• Howard Cosell left MNF, primarily due to the fallout of his offhand remarks about wide receiver Alvin Garrett during a 1983 broadcast. O. J. Simpson was then promoted from fill-in to full-time color commentator.
• On NBC's pregame show NFL '84, Bob Costas replaced Len Berman as host.
• This was the last season that Phyllis George served on The NFL Today.

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