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Don Shula has been the head coach of five AFC championship teams. Shula coached the Miami Dolphins to AFC championships in 1971, 1972, 1973, 1982 and 1984. [7] Chuck Noll, Marv Levy and Andy Reid each coached four AFC champions. [4] [8] [9] Hank Stram and Dan Reeves each coached three AFL or AFC champions. [9] [10]
The redesigned Lamar Hunt Trophy, awarded since 2010–11 season. The structure of the NFL playoffs has changed several times since 1970. At the end of each regular season, the top teams in the AFC 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" teams ...
NBC aired the AFC's Sunday afternoon and playoff games from 1970 through the 1997 season. From 1998 to 2013, CBS was the primary broadcast rightsholder to the AFC; in those years, all interconference games in which the AFC team was the visiting team were broadcast on either NBC or CBS. Since 2014, the cross-flex policy allows select AFC games ...
Team with the lowest regular season winning percentage to reach the NFC Championship Game, 8–7 (0.533) Minnesota Vikings, 1987. Team with the lowest regular season winning percentage to reach the AFC Championship Game, 9–7 (0.563) Seattle Seahawks, 1983 Pittsburgh Steelers, 1984 Indianapolis Colts, 1995 Jacksonville Jaguars, 1996 New York ...
The teams, who are members of the AFC, met in the AFC Championship Game two years in a row during the 2021–2022 and 2022–2023 playoffs. This rivalry formed recently as both teams established themselves as Super Bowl contenders in the AFC. As of the 2024-2025 season, the Bengals lead the series 18–17, including two playoff meetings with ...
The two teams met again in that year's AFC Championship Game where the Bills won their fourth straight AFC Championship by a score of 30–13. Montana would suffer a concussion on a three-way sack from Bruce Smith , Phil Hansen , and Jeff Wright , early in the third quarter, which forced Chiefs backup quarterback Dave Krieg into the game.
The years listed are the years where the coaches listed below made the playoffs, not the entire span of the coach's career. Championship appearances (Super Bowl starting in 1966) are also listed, with championship wins being in bold. Note that only NFL/AFL years are counted, so those from the AAFC in Paul Brown's case are not included.
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 ...