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The NFL championships describes both the Championship games of the National Football League, which ran from 1920 to 1969; and the Super Bowl, which has run from 1966 to the present. Many players and teams have won these championships on multiple occasions, both during the NFL championships and the Super Bowl era.
Sudden death overtime was finally approved for the NFL championship game in 1946 [7] and has remained in effect ever since. [8] [9] The first playoff game requiring overtime was the 1958 NFL Championship Game. The 1955 and 1960 NFL championship games were played on Monday afternoons, Christmas having fallen on a Sunday in those years.
Bill Belichick holds the current NFL record for most playoff games coached (44) and most wins by a head coach (31). Vince Lombardi won 90% of his playoff appearances, the record for coaches with more than three games to their credit. While many coaches have won playoff games for 2 teams, only two have won a championship for different franchises.
Aside from the NFL playoff appearance streaks, this list also includes Championship Game appearance streaks and the NFL championships win streak. Streaks from the AFL are also included. The New England Patriots [ 1 ] held the longest consecutive playoff streak with 11 appearances from 2009 to 2019 , which is the longest of all-time.
The first official National Football League (NFL) playoff game was the 1933 NFL Championship Game between the Chicago Bears and New York Giants. A "playoff" game was played in 1932 between the Chicago Bears and Portsmouth Spartans to break a regular season tie, but is recorded in the team record books as a regular season game. [1]
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.
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
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