1960 NFL season The 1960 NFL season was the 41st regular season of the National Football League . Before the season , Pete Rozelle was elected NFL commissioner as a compromise choice on the twenty - third ballot . Meanwhile , the league expanded to 13 teams with the addition of the Dallas Cowboys . Also , the Cardinals relocated from Chicago , Illinois to St . Louis , Missouri , becoming the St . Louis Cardinals , the same moniker as the major league baseball team of the same name . In the 1960 NFL Championship Game , the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Green Bay Packers at Franklin Field . Two years earlier , in 1958 , these teams had both finished in last place in their respective conferences . This loss was Vince Lombardi ' s only post - season defeat ( excluding a loss in the third place Playoff Bowl game four years later ) as an NFL head coach . Following this loss in 1960 , Lombardi ' s Packers won five NFL championship games in seven years , and easily won the first two Super Bowl s . Conference Races . All teams but Dallas played a home - and - away game against the other five members of their own conference , one interconference game , and one game against the new team ( Dallas ) . The Cowboys , although assigned to the Western Conference , were a " swing team " , playing their 12 game schedule against each of the other teams in the league . ( Byes would have been necessary because of the odd number of teams in the league . ) The Cowboys ' first game saw them take a 14 - 0 lead over the Steelers , with Jim Doran catching a pass from Eddie LeBaron for the first score , but Dallas went on to lose 35 – 28 . Philadelphia lost its opener , at home , to Cleveland , 41 – 24 . After that , the Eagles went on a 9 game winning streak . The breakthrough came in " Week Six " ( October 30 ) , when the unbeaten ( 3 – 0 – 1 ) New York Giants lost at home to St . Louis , 20 – 13 , and the Browns and Eagles were both at 4 – 1 . In " Week Seven " , New York beat Cleveland , 17 – 13 , and the Eagles beat Pittsburgh 34 – 7 . The Eagles kept on winning , finishing 10 – 2 and on top of the Eastern Conference . Two of those wins were in consecutive games ( November 20 and 27 ) against New York . In the latter game , the Eagles trailed 17 – 0 , then 23 – 17 , before Norm Van Brocklin threw two touchdown passes in the final quarter for a 31 – 23 victory . The Giants ' Frank Gifford was severely injured in a tackle by Chuck Bednarik that almost ended his career . The Western Conference race was one in which Baltimore , Chicago , Detroit , Green Bay and San Francisco all had a lead at one time . The Bears fell back after a " Week Six " loss to the 49ers , 25 – 7 . In " Week Seven " , the 4 – 2 Colts and the 4 – 1 Packers met on November 6 in Green Bay . Baltimore , which had lost an earlier match , won 38 – 24 , to take the lead in the Western . In " Week Ten " , the Colts lost at home to San Francisco , 30 – 22 , and began a streak of defeats . Baltimore ' s 20 – 15 loss to the Lions , and Green Bay ' s 41 – 13 win at Chicago , tied the Colts and Packers at 6 – 4 in " Week Eleven " . After the Packers ' 13 – 0 win at San Francisco , their record was 7 – 4 , while the Colts , Lions and 49ers were all at 6 – 5 . San Francisco and Detroit both won the next week , the former beating Baltimore 34 – 10 , but the Packers won as well , beating Los Angeles 35 – 21 for the Western title . The new Dallas Cowboys lost their first ten games , then on December 4 , they managed a 31 – 31 tie against the Giants at Yankee Stadium in New York . At 0 – 11 – 1 , they still finished at . 000 , rather than at . 042 , under the rules at the time ( ties being ignored in computing winning percentage prior to 1972 ) . Final standings . " W = Wins , L = Losses , T = Ties , PCT = Winning Percentage , PF = Points For , PA = Points Against " " Note : Prior to 1972 , the NFL did not include tie games when calculating a team ' s winning percentage in the official standings " NFL Championship Game . Philadelphia 17 , Green Bay 13 at Franklin Field , University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , December 26 , 1960