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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 ...
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.
The 2020 National Football Conference (NFC) Championship Game was played between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Green Bay Packers on January 24, 2021, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. After signing quarterback Tom Brady and trading for tight end Rob Gronkowski , the Buccaneers went 11–5 and made the playoffs as a Wild Card team.
Time: 6:30 p.m. TV: FOX. ... The AFC and NFC Championship games determine the two teams that will play in Super Bowl LIX and earn the right to lift the Lombardi Trophy as NFL champion.
y – 2. Philadelphia Eagles (13-3), NFC East champions: They locked down the division crown in Week 17 and the NFC's No. 2 seed. For now – with nothing to gain Sunday and key starters like RB ...
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 ...
️FOX's most-watched telecast of any kind since last year's NFC Championship ️Peaked at 52.3 million viewers from 5:15-5:30 PM ET ️Second most-streamed NFL game in FOX Sports history pic ...
Three wild-card qualifiers from each conference (the three teams with the best overall record of all remaining teams in the conference) are seeded 5, 6, and 7. If teams are tied (having the same regular season won-lost-tied record), the playoff seeding is determined by a set of tie-breaking rules .