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After the league merged, it was reorganized into two conferences: the National Football Conference (NFC), consisting of most of the pre-merger NFL teams, and the American Football Conference (AFC), consisting of all of the AFL teams as well as three pre-merger NFL teams. [29] Today, the NFL is the most popular sports league in North America [30 ...
Eastern Division renamed to American Conference. Western Division renamed to National Conference. San Francisco 49ers, Cleveland Browns, and the first Baltimore Colts all enfranchised from now-defunct All-America Football Conference. The Colts folded after the season.
[a] In 1950, the NFL accepted three teams – the Cleveland Browns, San Francisco 49ers, and Baltimore Colts – from the defunct All-America Football Conference, expanding to thirteen clubs. For a three-month period in 1950 the league was renamed the National-American Football League, that was subsequently changed back.
The NFL staked its claim to Saturday over the last month, but it's back to their regularly schedule programming in the season's final weeks. As we head into conference championship weekend, there ...
The NFC and its counterpart, the American Football Conference (AFC), each have 16 teams organized into four divisions. Both conferences were created as part of the 1970 NFL merger with the rival American Football League (AFL). All ten of the former AFL teams and three NFL teams formed the AFC while the remaining thirteen NFL clubs formed the NFC.
Below is a full look at the NFL's conference championship weekend schedule. Sunday NFL playoff games Philadelphia Eagles vs. Washington Commanders : 3 p.m. ET, Fox
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 NFL officially counts and includes the statistical records logged by teams that played in the American Football League (AFL) as part of NFL history. Therefore, these teams' pre-merger win–loss records are accounted for. However, the NFL does not officially count All-America Football Conference statistics, despite the 1950 NFL–AAFC ...