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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.
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.
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 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 ... Pre-Super Bowl era league champions. 1965: Green Bay Packers (NFL), Buffalo Bills ...
Detroit Lions, 59 years – NFL champions four times in 1935, 1952, 1953, and 1957; appeared in one other NFL Championship Game in 1954; and appeared in two NFC Championship Games in the 1991 and 2023 seasons. [85] New York Jets, 56 years – Won Super Bowl III, 1968 season [86] [n 8] Minnesota Vikings, 48 years – Lost Super Bowl XI, 1976 season
Here are the winners and losers from the NFL’s conference championship games. ... The Chiefs dialed up a series of designed runs for Mahomes on rollouts, many of them on key third downs and ...
1966 NFL Championship Game; ... List of NFL champions (1920–1969) This page was last edited on 14 April 2023, at 16:07 (UTC). Text ...