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The first efforts at pro football championships were the World Series of Professional Football, featuring teams from and around New York City and the 1902 "National" Football League in Pennsylvania; two of the three "N"FL teams participated as one team in the World Series of Pro Football. The Ohio League and New York Pro Football League were ...
The league had no divisions in 1949. The site of the championship game during the first three was determined just as it was in the NFL—a divisional rotation. In 1949, the league held a four-team playoff, with home field based upon won-lost record. The Browns, led by Quarterback Otto Graham, won all four of the league championship games.
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 ...
The Super Bowl — the NFL's championship game — pits the winner of the American Football Conference against ... Super Bowl history. ... Pre-Super Bowl era league champions. 1965: Green Bay ...
Most consecutive seasons leading league, fewest points allowed, 5; Cleveland Browns: 1953–1957. Most consecutive seasons leading league, fewest points allowed (since 1970 merger), 4; Seattle Seahawks: 2012–2015 [16] Fewest points allowed, season, 7 [a] Akron Pros: 1920. Fewest points allowed, season (13-game season), 20; New York Giants: 1927
The American Football League (AFL) was a major professional American football league that operated for ten seasons from 1960 until 1970, when it merged with the older National Football League (NFL), and became the American Football Conference. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence.
The Houston Texans have the fewest games played (12), wins (5), and losses (7) in NFL playoff history. 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