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Toggle 1920–1932: The Birth of the NFL subsection. 2.1 1920. ... The two leagues played the first AFL–NFL championship game (later known as the Super Bowl) after ...
Cities that hosted NFL teams in the 1920s and 1930s. Cities that still have NFL teams from that era are in black, while other cities are in red. Only teams that played more than ten games in the NFL are included. In league meetings prior to the 1933 season, three new teams, the Pirates, the Cincinnati Reds, and the Eagles, were admitted to the NFL.
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 last hurrah before entering the sixth decade of existence, this year's game has some history on the line as the Kansas City Chiefs look to be the first team to win three straight Super Bowls.
FRANCHISES: The first season, 1920, the American Professional Football Association had 14 teams, including two Tigers (Cleveland and Chicago). The Akron Pros, Decatur Staleys (later the Chicago ...
The 1920 Akron Pros were named the first APFA (NFL) champions. The National Football League champions, prior to the merger between the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) in 1970, were determined by two different systems. The National Football League was established on September 17, 1920, as the American Professional Football Association (APFA). The APFA changed ...
First year Last year Trophy name NFL: NFL champion (No championship game played) NFL Champion 1920: 1932: Brunswick-Balke Collender Cup, 1920 None, 1921–32 NFL Championship Game: NFL Championship 1933: 1969: Ed Thorp Memorial Trophy: AFL: AFL Championship Game: AFL Championship 1960: 1969: AFL Trophy AFL NFL: AFL-NFL World Championship Game
While teams playing against their division rivals twice each has been a tradition since 1933, when divisions were first introduced (the first standardized schedule), not all teams would play the same number of divisional games due to the imbalances noted in the preceding paragraph: for example, the AFC Central between 1999 and 2001 consisted of ...