NFL Dream Season

Genre

American football film

Country

United States

How it feels

A sports series that used a computer game and NFL Films footage to simulate matchups between legendary NFL teams from different eras. It determined which historical team would win in a hypothetical championship.

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What happens

NFL Dream Season is a TV show broadcast on ESPN in 1989, in which 20 all-time great NFL teams competed against each other using the football simulation game NFL Challenge. NFL Films footage was used to create what appeared to be a "game" between the two teams. The 1978 Steelers beat the 1972 Dolphins to win the title. In 1990, ESPN ran a one-off show with the 1989 Super Bowl Champion 49ers against the '78 Steelers. In 1999, they produced a similar mini-series, featuring overall "decade" teams of the 60s Packers, 70s Steelers, 80s 49ers, and 90s Cowboys playing each other. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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