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Most consecutive league championship game appearances, 6; Cleveland Browns 1950–55. Most Conference Championship Game appearances, 19; San Francisco 49ers 1970–71, 1981, 1983–84, 1988–90, 1992–94, 1997, 2011–13, 2019, 2021–23. Most consecutive Conference Championship Game appearances, 8; New England Patriots 2011–18
The league expanded its playoff system from a 12-team to a 14-team tournament, adding a third wild card team for each conference for the first time since the 2001 season, and only awarding each conference's division winner with the best record a first round bye. The Wild Card round was thus extended from two to three games per day.
Beginning with the 1933 season, the NFL featured a championship game, played between the winners of its two divisions.In this era, if there was a tie for first place in the division at the end of the regular season, a one-game playoff was used to determine the team that would represent their division in the NFL Championship Game.
A look at each NFL team's record through the first two seasons of this decade
Chicago Bears vs Washington Redskins, Dec 8, 1940 (NFL Championship Game) Most Points, One Half, 45; Chicago Bears vs Washington Redskins, Dec 8, 1940 (NFL Championship Game) Most Points, Both Teams, First Half, 52; Houston Texans (24) vs Kansas City Chiefs (28), Jan 12, 2020 (Divisional Round) Most Points, Both Teams, Second Half, 56
The top team is defending Super Bowl champions Kansas City Chiefs, who are 118-46 over the past 10 years. That success, which is nearly 75% winning percentage, was done on the backs of Andy Reid ...
As per an annual rotation used by the NFL since 1997 and made official in 2002, the AFC Championship Game was the first game played on January 30, 2022, at 3:05 p.m. EST, followed by the NFC Championship Game at 6:40 p.m. EST.
The 1950 Los Angeles Rams, the best offensive team in NFL history in terms of average points (466 in 12 games, 38.8 PPG), scored 70 points, one of only three teams to ever do so. The following week, they beat the Detroit Lions 65–24, including an NFL record 41 points in one quarter. They are the only team in NFL history to score 60-or-more ...