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The NFL playoff field begins with 14 teams and just 13 games to determine this year's champion at Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans.Not all of them will be decided in regulation. Last year's Super Bowl ...
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.
Minnesota Vikings (4) – appeared in Super Bowls IV, VIII, IX, and XI; they won the NFL Championship in 1969, the last year before the AFL–NFL merger, but failed to win the subsequent Super Bowl. Buffalo Bills (4) – XXV, XXVI, XXVII, and XXVIII; in 1964 and 1965, they won the last two AFL Championships before the first Super Bowl in 1966.
NFL overtime rules in the playoffs and the Super Bowl differ slightly from how extra periods are played in the regular season. Here's an explainer.
Now each team will get to possess the ball during overtime in the postseason — but only then.
In 2017, the NFL shortened overtime from 15 minutes to 10 minutes for regular season games with the intent of reducing the risk of injury. [ 52 ] [ 53 ] Through Week 16 of the 2024 season, a total of 111 regular season games went to overtime under these rules, 7 ( 6.3%) of which ended in a tie.
The NFL has changed its overtime rules for the playoffs. Here's how it might affect the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVII. Super Bowl LVII: Here's how the NFL's new ...