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Weeb Ewbank won the 1958 and 1959 NFL titles with the Baltimore Colts, then won the 1968 AFL crown and Super Bowl with the New York Jets. The other coach to win a championship with two teams was Don Shula. Shula was an NFL champion in 1968 with the Baltimore Colts, but lost in Super Bowl III to the AFL champs
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.
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.
On the flip side, the Lions beat the Rams twice in 2024 – a 24-23 victory last January in the wild-card round and a 26-20 overtime triumph in Week 1 of this season, both games at Ford Field.
Super Bowl 1: Green Bay Packers 35, Kansas City Chiefs 10 Super Bowl 2: Green Bay Packers 33, Oakland Raiders 14 Super Bowl 3: New York Jets 16, Baltimore Colts 7
The NFL playoffs are in full swing. The league wrapped up its wild-card weekend on Monday night with the Los Angeles Rams' blowout win over the Minnesota Vikings, which was relocated to Arizona ...
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 Packers defeated the Chiefs in the first AFL–NFL World Championship Game (Super Bowl I). The Super Bowl is the annual American football game that determines the champion of the National Football League (NFL). The game culminates a season that begins in the previous calendar year, and is the conclusion of the NFL playoffs.