1963 American Football League Championship Game

1963 American Football League championship game
DateJanuary 5, 1964
StadiumBalboa Stadium, San Diego, California
MVPKeith Lincoln, running back
Attendance30,127 [1]
TV in the United States
NetworkABC
AnnouncersCurt Gowdy, Paul Christman[2]

The 1963 AFL Championship Game was the fourth American Football League (AFL) title game. The Western Division champion San Diego Chargers won 51–10 over the Eastern Division champion Boston Patriots. The Chargers' Keith Lincoln was named the game's most valuable player (MVP).

At the end of the regular season, the Chargers (11–3) won the Western Division for the third time in the four-year existence of the AFL.[3] In the Eastern Division, the Patriots and the Buffalo Bills had identical 7–6–1 records, which required a tiebreaker playoff game on December 28 in Buffalo.[4][5]

  1. ^ Paid Attendance|Tales from the AFL
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference 1963 NFL-AFL Commentator Crews was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference chtrb was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Boston beats Buffalo, 26-8, in playoff". Chicago Tribune. Associated Press.
  5. ^ "Boston beats Bills for division crown". Milwaukee Journal. Associated Press. December 29, 1963. p. 2, sports.