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The NFC had a streak in which its champion won 13 consecutive Super Bowls, from the 1984 NFC champion San Francisco 49ers through the 1996 NFC champion Green Bay Packers. Overall, the NFC champion has won 27 of the 54 Super Bowls played since the formation of the NFC with the AFL–NFL merger through the end of the 2023 season.
NFC Championship Game logo, 2008–2010 (Used with old shield since 2005) The structure of the NFL playoffs has changed several times since 1970. At the end of each regular season, the top teams in the NFC qualify for the postseason, including all division champions (three division winners from the 1970–71 to 2001–02 seasons; four since the 2002–03 season) and a set number of "wild card ...
Won NFC Championship 14–3 Won Super Bowl VI (vs. Dolphins) 24–3 1972: Washington Redskins (1) 11–3: Won Divisional playoffs 16–3 Won NFC Championship 26–3 Lost Super Bowl VII (vs. Dolphins) 7–14 1973: Dallas Cowboys (6) 10–4: Won Divisional playoffs 27–16 Lost NFC Championship 10–27 1974: St. Louis Cardinals (1)
At the end of each season, the four division winners and three wild cards (non-division winners with best regular season record) in the NFC qualify for the playoffs. The NFC playoffs culminate in the NFC Championship Game with the winner receiving the George S. Halas Trophy. [1] The NFC champion then plays the AFC champion in the Super Bowl.
This category lists the seasons of NFL football teams that won the NFC Championship. Pages in category "National Football Conference championship seasons" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total.
However, only the top two division winners in each conference (the 1 and 2 seeds) received byes and automatically advanced to the Divisional Playoffs as host teams. The 3 seed, the division winner with the worst regular-season record in each conference, would then host the 6 seed in the Wild Card Playoffs. [14] [15] [16]
2018 NFC Championship Game; 2020 NFC Championship Game; C. The Catch (American football) T. The Tip (American football) This page was last edited on 26 January 2021 ...
1967 was the first year where a pre-scheduled playoff (rather than regular season results) determined participation in the championship. It also marked the first year in which if there was a tie for first place in a division, the division champion was determined by a system of tiebreakers, rather than via a playoff game (as detailed in the 1933 ...