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Beginning with the 1933 season, the NFL featured a championship game, played between the winners of its two divisions.In this era, if there was a tie for first place in the division at the end of the regular season, a one-game playoff was used to determine the team that would represent their division in the NFL Championship Game.
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 ...
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 NFL officially counts and includes the statistical records logged by teams that played in the American Football League (AFL) as part of NFL history. Therefore, these teams' pre-merger win–loss records are accounted for. However, the NFL does not officially count All-America Football Conference statistics, despite the 1950 NFL–AAFC ...
Chicago Bears vs Washington Redskins, Dec 8, 1940 (NFL Championship Game) Most Points, One Half, 45; Chicago Bears vs Washington Redskins, Dec 8, 1940 (NFL Championship Game) Most Points, Both Teams, First Half, 52; Houston Texans (24) vs Kansas City Chiefs (28), Jan 12, 2020 (Divisional Round) Most Points, Both Teams, Second Half, 56
Most games won (including playoffs), franchise history, 826 [3] Green Bay Packers 1920–2022. Most games won (regular season only), since 1970 merger, 514 [4] Pittsburgh Steelers: 1970–2022. Most games won (including playoffs), since 1970 merger, 550 [5] Pittsburgh Steelers: 1970–2022. Most consecutive winning seasons, franchise history ...
From the 1966 season to the 1969 season (Super Bowls I–IV) the game featured the champions of the AFL and NFL. In 1967, the NFL expanded to 16 teams and split its two conferences into two divisions of four teams each. The four division champions advanced to the league's first guaranteed multi–game playoffs. To remain on schedule, a tie ...
The American Professional Football Association is formed on September 17, 1920, at Canton, Ohio, with Jim Thorpe elected president. [1] The fourteen teams were mainly drawn from the Ohio League, Chicago Circuit, New York Pro Football League and other teams from the lower midwest.