Alan Ameche scores winning touchdown as the Colts defeat the Giants in the 1958 NFL Championship game.

Alan Ameche Scores Winning TD - The 1958 NFL Championship Game is still referred to today as ‘The Greatest Game Ever Played.’ It is still the only ever NFL Championship Game to have gone into overtime. The game featured numerous Hall of Famers on both sides, but the hero was Alan Ameche, whose 2nd touchdown of the game, a 1-yard run, gave the Baltimore Colts a 23-17 overtime victory over the New York Giants in Yankee Stadium. The game was watched on television by more than 45 million people across the country, and is widely credited as being one of the key factors in the league’s popularity boom that followed in the years to come.