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The first AFC Championship Game was played following the 1970 regular season after the merger between the NFL and the AFL. The game is considered the successor to the former AFL Championship, and its game results are listed with that of its predecessor in the annual NFL Record and Fact Book. [2]
Rather, the champion is decided by the AFC Championship Game (formerly the AFL Championship Game) as part of the post-season playoffs involving the teams with the best regular season records. The Houston Oilers won the first two AFL championships, in 1960 and 1961. [1]
The NFL Championship Game was ended after the 1969 season, succeeded by the NFC Championship Game. [2] [6] The champions of that game play the champions of the AFC Championship Game in the Super Bowl to determine the NFL champion. [2] The Green Bay Packers won the most NFL championships before the merger, winning eleven of the fifty ...
On January 15, 1967, the first-ever championship game between the two separate professional football leagues, the "AFL-NFL World Championship Game" (retroactively referred to as Super Bowl I), was played in Los Angeles. After a close first half, the NFL champion Green Bay Packers overwhelmed the AFL champion Kansas City Chiefs, 35–10. The ...
In National Football League (NFL) lore, the Freezer Bowl was the 1981 AFC Championship Game between the San Diego Chargers and the Cincinnati Bengals. The game was played on January 10, 1982, at Cincinnati 's Riverfront Stadium , and televised by NBC , with announcers Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen .
Most First Downs, Game, 37; New England Patriots vs Atlanta Falcons, Feb 5, 2017 (OT, Super Bowl LI) Fewest First Downs, Game, 6; Chicago Cardinals vs Philadelphia Eagles, Dec 19, 1948 (NFL Championship Game) Most First Downs, Both Teams, Game, 62; Green Bay Packers (32) vs Arizona Cardinals (30), Jan 10, 2010 (OT, Wild Card Round)
The defensive tackle — who was on of the Chiefs' championship teams in 2020, 2023 and 2024 — then took a moment to say, "God is good," before joining his family to celebrate Kansas City's AFC ...
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.