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The NFC East has a long history of being geographically inaccurate. While the New York Giants, Philadelphia, and Washington are based on the East Coast, Dallas and St. Louis (later Phoenix, then Arizona) remained part of the East from the 1970 merger until 2002 despite being geographically west of most teams in the conference and closer to the ...
0–9. 1970 Dallas Cowboys season; 1971 Dallas Cowboys season; 1972 Washington Redskins season; 1973 Dallas Cowboys season; 1974 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season
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 ...
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 ...
1st NFC East: Playoff finish: Won Wild Card Playoffs (vs. Buccaneers) 31–9 Won Divisional Playoffs (at Bears) 33–19 Lost NFC Championship (at Rams) 24–29: Pro Bowlers: QB Donovan McNabb OT Tra Thomas DE Hugh Douglas LB Jeremiah Trotter CB Troy Vincent FS Brian Dawkins PK David Akers TE Chad Lewis
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 ...
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