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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]
Super Bowl III in January 1969 was the first such game that carried the "Super Bowl" moniker in official marketing; the names "Super Bowl I" and "Super Bowl II" were retroactively applied to the first two games. [4] A total of 20 franchises, including teams that have relocated to another city or changed their name, have won the Super Bowl. [5]
After the AFL–NFL merger in 1970, the Super Bowl continued to be played between the AFC champion and the NFC champion. The AFL champion lost the first two Super Bowls. The 1968 AFL champion New York Jets with Joe Namath at quarterback became the first AFL team to win the Super Bowl. Starting with that Super Bowl, the AFL or AFC champion won ...
The Chiefs and Eagles met in Super Bowl 57 just two years ago. The game marked the first Super Bowl during which brothers played against one another – Travis Kelce for Kansas City and Jason ...
The Bills became the first team in 19 years to reach the Super Bowl in three straight seasons (the last being the 1971-1973 Miami Dolphins); no other team would win three straight Conference Championships until the 2016-2018 New England Patriots. As of 2024, it is the last time the Bills have won a postseason game on the road, as they have lost ...
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 ...
The playoffs were also notable for the Patriots reaching a seventh consecutive AFC Championship Game, extending their own NFL record, [1] and the Eagles snapping a 57-year championship drought and claiming their first in the Super Bowl era. For the first time since 2013–14, no games went to overtime.
A Baltimore-based team would finally return to the AFC Championship Game in 2000, which Baltimore's current team (the Ravens) won en route to their first Super Bowl championship. Six NFL teams have been enfranchised since 1971, four of which reached a title game (two in each conference) in less than the six seasons it took Miami to do so.