American Football
- The first Super Bowl is played on January 15 and NFL champion Green Bay Packers win 35-10 over AFL champion Kansas City Chiefs.
- December 31 – Green Bay Packers defeat Dallas Cowboys 21-17 for the 1967 NFL Championship in a now-legendary game at Lambeau Field known as the Ice Bowl
- Oakland Raiders defeat the Houston Oilers 40-7 for the 1967 American Football League Championship
- The New Orleans Saints are formed.
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Famous quotes containing the words american and/or football:
“Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“You can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.”
—Frank Zappa (1940–1993)