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Sudden death overtime was finally approved for the NFL championship game in 1946 [7] and has remained in effect ever since. [8] [9] The first playoff game requiring overtime was the 1958 NFL Championship Game. The 1955 and 1960 NFL championship games were played on Monday afternoons, Christmas having fallen on a Sunday in those years.
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 ...
The NFL championships describes both the Championship games of the National Football League, which ran from 1920 to 1969; and the Super Bowl, which has run from 1966 to the present. Many players and teams have won these championships on multiple occasions, both during the NFL championships and the Super Bowl era.
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 1969 NFL Championship Game was the 37th and final championship game prior to the AFL–NFL merger, played January 4, 1970, at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota, a suburb south of Minneapolis. The winner of the game earned a berth in Super Bowl IV in New Orleans against the champion of the American Football League. [1] [2]
Most Super Bowl wins, 6; Pittsburgh Steelers ... Most league championships, 13; Green Bay Packers 1929 ... franchise history, 790 [2] Green Bay Packers 1921–2022. ...
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 ...
Washington Redskins vs Chicago Bears, Dec 8, 1940 (NFL Championship Game) Detroit Lions vs Cleveland Browns, Dec 26, 1954 (NFL Championship Game) Houston Oilers vs Pittsburgh Steelers, Jan 7, 1979 (AFC Championship Game) Buffalo Bills vs Dallas Cowboys, Jan 31, 1994 (Super Bowl XXVIII) Most Turnovers, Both Teams, Game, 14