The Cleveland Browns dominated the NFL in the 1940s and ’50s. The Green Bay Packers bullied the league through the ’60s. But after the AFL and NFL fi nally merged, the 1970s was a decade of struggle between the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers that wouldn’t be settled until January 1979.
It was a clash of north vs. south, NFC vs. AFC, Noll vs. Landry, Bradshaw vs. Staubach, the Hail Mary and The Immaculate Reception.