kaufman@uiucdcs.UUCP (12/03/84)
[I tried to mail this without any luck so:]
> When were the last major sports championships between Northeastern teams?
If you throw Maryland in, the last time was the 1983 Phillies-Orioles series.
Otherwise, it would be the 1980 Islanders-Flyers Stanley Cup.
Other last times using only states mentioned:
Baseball - 1956: Yankees-Dodgers
Football - I don't think it's ever happened. The closest would be Super Bowl
III - Jets-Colts. Prior to Super Bowls, the championship was always
East champion versus West champion. Since the Giants, Eagles, and
even the old Boston Redskins were all in the East (the Steelers
never got so far), no NFL championship would have involved two
northeastern teams. The AFL may have had one, I'm not sure, in its
early years, since the top team in each division would play the #2
team in the other division in the first round, making all-eastern
title games possible.
Basketball - 1967 or 68: Boston-Philadelphia
Ken Kaufman (uiucdcs!kaufman)stevev@tekchips.UUCP (Steve Vegdahl) (12/05/84)
> The AFL may have had one, I'm not sure, in its > early years, since the top team in each division would play the #2 > team in the other division in the first round, making all-eastern > title games possible. I believe that such a playoff format was in effect only in 1969, the year before to the AFL-NFL merger. KC (who finished second to Oakland) beat the Jets in the first round, and then went on to beat the Raiders in the AFL championship game and Vikings in the Super Bowl. In the previous year, Oakland and KC tied for first, and played each other to determine who would play the Jets. Oakland beat KC handily but lost to the Namath-led Jets, who, in turn, beat the Colts in the Super Bowl. I'm quite certain that the year before that (1967) there was only a single AFL playoff game, between the Raiders and Oilers. ******************************** Steve Vegdahl NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR Computer Research Lab. typos Tektronix, Inc. logical errors Beaverton, Oregon actions of my pet alligator ********************************