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Garo Yepremian of the Miami Dolphins, here kicking a field goal against the Cincinnati Bengals in the 1973 playoffs, made the game-winning kick in double overtime of a playoff game at Kansas City on Christmas Day, 1971.
December 25, 2020
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MOMENTS, MEMORIES and MADNESS with STEVE CAMERON: The NFL's longest game made for a lot of late Christmas dinners
On Christmas Day in 1971, the Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins fought out an AFC playoff duel. The Chiefs and Dolphins played into a second overtime, taking a 3 p.m. football game well into Christmas evening, and presumably ruining a lot of family dinners. At least Miami’s eventual 27-24 victory, achieved when Garo Yepremian booted a 37-yard field goal at the 7:40 mark of the second OT, was an exciting event that contained plenty of everything.