It’s rare to have an NFL game postponed, and even rarer to have a playoff game postponed.
But what about a game being completely relocated? And what if it’s a playoff game? Has that ever happened?
The answer is: yes. It’s super-rare but it has happened. And with the Los Angeles Rams and Minnesota Vikings moving to the Cardinals’ State Farm Stadium in Arizona for Monday’s Wild Card playoff matchup, you might be wondering when that’s happened in the NFL postseason.
Per USA TODAY Sports, it happened way back in 1936, long before there was a thing called the Super Bowl:
The 1936 NFL championship game, between Boston (now the Washington Commanders) and the Green Bay Packers, was the first one to be held on a neutral field, something that has become commonplace in today’s game. Still more than 30 years before the Super Bowl, the championship game was played on one the team’s home fields.
That year’s game was moved from Boston’s Fenway Park to New York’s Polo Grounds because of poor ticket sales. Boston owner George Preston Marshall decided to move the game with the lack of fan support and then relocated the team to Washington, D.C., the following season, which they’ve represented since.
There you have it!
