The two teams have only met each other twice in the postseason.

The teams have since met on Monday Night Football twice, the Bengals winning each time.

After the captains of the two teams met they quickly realized that the games each school played were still different.

Since that time, the two teams have met in 100 regular season contests and two NFC Championships.

The two teams met in the first regular season game the Cowboys ever played in 1960 ( a 35 – 28 loss to the Steelers ), the first-ever regular season victory for the expansion Cowboys in 1961, and would later meet in three Super Bowls, all of them closely contested events.

Nine years later the two teams met at The Stick again in the NFC Championship Game ; in their third season together 49ers coach Bill Walsh and quarterback Joe Montana authored a history-making moment on Montana's last-minute touchdown to Dwight Clark and a 28-27 San Francisco win.

The two teams met twice a year ( interrupted in 1982 by a player strike ) 1970 – 2001 ; with the move of the Colts to the AFC South the two teams ' rivalry actually escalated, as they met three times in the playoffs in the South's first nine seasons of existence ; the Jets crushed the Colts 41 – 0 in the 2002 Wild Card playoff round ; the Colts then defeated the Jets 30 – 17 in the 2009 AFC Championship Game ; but the next year in the Wild Card round the Jets pulled off another playoff upset of the Colts, winning 17 – 16 ; it was Peyton Manning's final playoff game with the Colts.

The rivalry stems largely from the period between 1976 and 1980, when both teams were in top form and met four times in five years for the American League Championship Series.

The Scot consistently defended Luis Suárez in the wake of the striker's eight-match ban for allegedly racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra when the teams met in October 2011.

This includes 12 years in a row from 1981 – 92 – all as a result of the scheduling formulas in place prior to 2002 ( this remains a record for most consecutive years in which two teams not from the same division met each other ).

The teams met most recently in the divisional round of the 2011 playoffs, with the 49ers winning 36-32 in an exciting game that saw four lead changes in the last four minutes of the game.

Though regular season meetings have been infrequent since then, the teams have met two more times in the playoffs, including in 2009 when the Colts and Jets met in the AFC Championship Game.

Since its inception, this was the first time that two wildcard teams met in a World Series.

The teams have only met twice in the regular season with the first meeting occurring in 2002 at the old Yankee Stadium.

The teams met again at AT & T Park in 2007.

This was the first Super Bowl between two teams who had met in regular season play.

It was the first of only two times that two teams have played each other in the Super Bowl after playing on the final weekend of the regular season ( the New York Giants and New England Patriots played in the final week of the 2007 regular season and met again in Super Bowl XLII ). Under NFL scheduling rules put in place by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell prior to the 2010 season, the Super Bowl participants will not be able to play each other on the final weekend of the regular season, since all games on the final weekend now match division opponents.

This was the second rematch in Super Bowl history, as the two teams met in Super Bowl VII.

The teams had met earlier in the season as well.

Also, in week 15 of the regular season, the two teams met at Giants Stadium where the Bills defeated the Giants 17 – 13.

in 2012, the playoffs were expanded again so that two wild card teams face off in a one game wild card round to determine which team advances to the division series, with the playoffs then continuing as it had before 2012 ( though with the possibilty of a fifth seed being in the playoffs and a fourth seed being out ) after the end of the wild card round.

The team again participated in 21 matches, playing state teams as well as northern Queensland sides and Victorian teams.

Both of the LA teams would bow out because of the quantity demand of the Marlins and they again would miss out on getting All-Star caliber players, namely Matt Kemp and Clayton Kershaw who the Marlins could have obtained if their demands were lowered.

The 2008 season saw the two teams meet twice again ; on November 23 the two teams battled to a 20-20 tie until Vinatieri booted a 51-yard field goal on the final play and a 23-20 Colts win ; the Colts surged to 12-4 but lost the AFC South title to the Titans ; they thus had to travel to meet the 8-8 Chargers on January 3.

In the 1985 World Series against the cross-state St. Louis Cardinals ( nicknamed the " I-70 Series " because the two teams are both located in the state of Missouri and connected by Interstate 70 ), the Royals again fell behind 3 – 1.

However, leg spin has again become popular with cricket fans and a successful part of cricket teams, driven largely by the success of Shane Warne, beginning with his spectacular Ball of the Century to Mike Gatting in 1993.

However, the series was tied and draw would mean both teams would have to front up again for another match.

During the 1990s, the Russian Stechkin APS was once again put into service, as a weapon for VIP bodyguards and for anti-terrorist hostage rescue teams that needed the capability for full automatic fire in emergencies.

Support for Peary came again in 2005, however, when British explorer Tom Avery and four companions recreated the outward portion of Peary's journey with replica wooden sleds and Canadian Eskimo Dog teams, reaching the North Pole in 36 days, 22 hours – nearly five hours faster than Peary.

During the period of two-division play ( 1969 to 1993 ), the two National League East division rivals won the two highest numbers of division championships, reigning exclusively as NL East champions in the 1970s and again in the early 1990s, the Pirates 9, the Phillies 6 ; together, the two teams ' 15 championships accounted for more than half of the 25 NL East championships during that span.

The 2010 campaign started off slowly again, this time 2 – 5 ( including losses to some of the worst teams in football at the time – KC, OAK, SEA & STL ).

The Giants experienced some hard luck in the early 1910s, losing three straight World Series starting in 1911 to the A's, the Red Sox, and the A's again ( the Giants and the A's both won pennants in 1913 ; two seasons later, both teams finished in eighth place ).

The Vikings ' " Purple People Eaters " defense, anchored by Carl Eller and Alan Page, were also dominating teams again.

The following season the two teams met in the Grand Final once again, but this time Sydney Swans finished as runners-up by a single point in front of 97, 431 spectators at the MCG.

However, the Group II teams were both defeated by Group I teams, causing France and Spain to meet again in the final.

) After the Houston Astros move to the AL West in 2013, the leagues will once again each have 15 teams.

In its final year of 2002, the Western Baseball League again operated with six teams.

The teams met again in the Western Conference Finals that season, with the Red Wings emerging victorious and going on to win the Stanley Cup.

The 1985 and 1986 teams combined for only eight wins, including an 0 – 13 start in 1986, which prompted the firing of head coach Rod Dowhower, who was replaced by Ron Meyer.

With the loss, the Patriots ended the year at 18 – 1, becoming only one of three teams to go 18 – 1 along with the 1984 San Francisco 49ers and the 1985 Chicago Bears.

Benetton Formula Ltd. was formed at the end of 1985 when the Toleman and Spirit teams were sold to the Benetton family.

* Island Games, first held in 1985, for teams from several islands and other small territories.

One of the most successful teams in Yeshiva University sports history is the fencing team, known as the " Taubermen ", named after the coach of the team, Professor Arthur Tauber, who served as the head coach of the team from 1949 through 1985.

In 1985, the NBA was planning to expand by four teams.

All of the teams are under the Phocis Football Clubs Association in which it existed since 1985 after the separation and dissolution of the Phocis-Phtiotis Football Guild Union.

The Plainville High School is home the 1980 and 1985 Kansas Football State Championship teams, as well as the 1988 and 1992 3-2-1A State Wrestling Championship teams and the 2012 2A State Championship boys track team.

The school's teams have combined to win five state championships including volleyball ( 1986, 1999 ) men's basketball ( 1985 ), women's basketball ( 2000 ) and men's track and field ( 2009 ).

In 1985 the Cairo little league team finished the season with a 14-0 record and were Tourney Champs defeating all other local teams.

Three other times, Blue Devil teams have made it to the final phase of the State Tournament: The 1985 Division 3 baseball team ( losing in the finals to Rib Lake ), as well as the 1994 and 1995 boys ' basketball teams ( defeated in the semifinals both times.

This allowed for annual, cross-dimensional team-ups of the teams, lasting from 1963 until 1985.

* In 1985 and 1987, Morristown had teams qualify for the Little League World Series ; the 1985 team finished third.

* The 1983 and 1985 College Bowl Nationals were canceled, leaving teams with no opportunity to compete for a championship.

He was a member of three English teams in the World Team Championships of 1985 ( team bronze ), 1989 ( team bronze ), and 1997 ( team fourth ).

Eighteen teams have all hosted an all-star game at least twice since the Mets last did: Atlanta Braves ( 1972 and 2000 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1983 and 2003 ), Cincinnati Reds ( 1970 and 1988 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1981 and 1997 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1971 and 2005 ), Houston Astros ( 1968, 1986, and 2004 ), Kansas City Royals ( 1973 and 2012 ), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim ( 1967, 1989, and 2010 ), Milwaukee Brewers ( 1975 and 2002 ), Minnesota Twins ( 1965, 1985, and 2014 ), New York Yankees ( 1977 and 2008 ), Philadelphia Phillies ( 1976 and 1996 ), Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1974, 1994, and 2006 ), San Diego Padres ( 1978 and 1992 ), San Francisco Giants ( 1984 and 2007 ), Seattle Mariners ( 1979 and 2001 ), and St. Louis Cardinals ( 1966 and 2009 ), and Washington Senators / Texas Rangers ( 1969 and 1995 ).

But Luton were forbidden to enter the 1988 – 89 UEFA Cup because the ban on English teams in European competition arising from the 1985 Heysel Stadium disaster still had two years to run.

Subsequently Hearts were instrumental in pushing through a change to use goal difference to separate teams level on points, which ironically was to disadvantage the club in 1985 – 86.

Roger Eugene Maris ( September 10, 1934 – December 14, 1985 ) was an American baseball right fielder who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) on four teams, from 1957 through 1968.

Since 1985, St. Moritz has hosted the Cartier Polo World Cup on Snow ; an annual high-goal tournament featuring many of the world's finest teams.