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Miami running back Jim Kiick ducks under the tackle by Kansas City’s Emmitt Thomas (18) to score in the Christmas Day playoff game in 1971 at Municipal Stadium in Kansas City.
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.