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The 1928 Steam Rollers championship team pennant. At its inception in 1920, the NFL had no playoff system or championship game: the champion was the team with the best record during the season as determined by winning percentage, with ties excluded.
The Packers defeated the Chiefs in the first AFL–NFL World Championship Game (Super Bowl I). The Super Bowl is the annual American football game that determines the champion of the National Football League (NFL). The game culminates a season that begins in the previous calendar year, and is the conclusion of the NFL playoffs.
Early championships between 1920 and 1932 were awarded to the team with the best won-lost record, initially rather haphazardly, as some teams played more or fewer games than others, or scheduled games against non-league, amateur or collegiate teams; this led to the 1920 title being determined during a league meeting after the season, [3] the 1921 title being decided on a controversial ...
The Super Bowl — the NFL's championship game — pits the winner of the American Football Conference against the winner of the National Football Conference, with the victor receiving the Vince ...
The NFC champions Philadelphia Eagles will face the AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs in a matchup that will be familiar to NFL fans. The Chiefs and Eagles met in Super Bowl 57 just two years ago.
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.
2017 Super Bowl (51): New England Patriots 34, Atlanta Falcons 28 2018 Super Bowl (52): Philadelphia Eagles 41, New England Patriots 33 2019 Super Bowl (53): New England Patriots 13, Los Angeles ...
The NFL Championship Game was ended after the 1969 season, succeeded by the NFC Championship Game. [2] [6] The champions of that game play the champions of the AFC Championship Game in the Super Bowl to determine the NFL champion. [2] The Green Bay Packers won the most NFL championships before the merger, winning eleven of the fifty ...