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Detroit Lions, 59 years – NFL champions four times in 1935, 1952, 1953, and 1957; appeared in one other NFL Championship Game in 1954; and appeared in two NFC Championship Games in the 1991 and 2023 seasons. [87] New York Jets, 56 years – Won Super Bowl III, 1968 season [88] [n 8] Minnesota Vikings, 48 years – Lost Super Bowl XI, 1976 season
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.
2017 Super Bowl (51): New England Patriots 34, Atlanta Falcons 28 2018 Super Bowl (52): Philadelphia Eagles 41, New England Patriots 33 2019 Super Bowl (53): New England Patriots 13, Los Angeles ...
The first World Playoff game, if actually played, would have matched up the AFL champion Houston Oilers against the NFL champion Green Bay Packers. [ 8 ] In the mid-1960s, Lamar Hunt , owner of the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs , first used the term "Super Bowl" [ 9 ] to refer to the AFL–NFL championship game in the merger meetings.
The New England Patriots have appeared in the Super Bowl 11 times, the most of any NFL team. The San Francisco 49ers , Denver Broncos , Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys are tied for the ...
The American Professional Football Association is reorganized at Akron, Ohio on April 30, 1921, with Joe F. Carr elected as new league president. [1] With the low entry barrier of a $100 membership fee, the number of teams balloons to 21. [1]
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.
The Vince Lombardi Trophy is awarded to the winning team of each season's Super Bowl, the NFL's championship game.The original trophy, designed by jewelry retailer Tiffany & Co., was awarded in 1967 to the winner of the first AFL-NFL World Championship Game, known retroactively as Super Bowl I.