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The 1982 Washington Redskins had the fewest wins of any NFC champion, with eight wins and just one loss in the strike–shortened 1982 season. The fewest wins by an NFC champion in a complete season were by the 1979 Los Angeles Rams , 2008 Arizona Cardinals , and the 2011 New York Giants .
On the other hand, the NFC East became one of three divisions to be won by a team with a losing record (the previous two being the NFC South and NFC West) when the then-Washington Football Team won the 2020 division crown with a 7–9 record. The Philadelphia Eagles are the only NFC East team to actually play in the city of the team's naming. [8]
They have won three Super Bowls (XVII, XXII, and XXVI), two NFC championships, and 15 NFC East divisional titles. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Before the AFL and NFL merged in 1970 , [ 4 ] Washington won two NFL Championships ( 1937 and 1942 ).
0–9. 1970 Dallas Cowboys season; 1971 Dallas Cowboys season; 1972 Washington Redskins season; 1973 Dallas Cowboys season; 1974 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season
To date, this is the last time Washington advanced as far the Conference Championship game. This would be the Lions most recent NFC Championship game appearance until the 2023 season. This was the final postseason game at RFK Stadium. The Redskins went 11–1 at the facility in the playoffs, losing only a 1984 divisional-round game to the Bears.
NFC Championship Game logo, 2008–2010 (Used with old shield since 2005) The structure of the NFL playoffs has changed several times since 1970. At the end of each regular season, the top teams in the NFC qualify for the postseason, including all division champions (three division winners from the 1970–71 to 2001–02 seasons; four since the 2002–03 season) and a set number of "wild card ...
San Francisco was the second NFC playoff seed ahead of Philadelphia on better record against common opponents (5–3 to Eagles' 5–4). Philadelphia finished first in the NFC East based on head-to-head sweep of the N.Y. Giants (2–0). Washington finished third in the NFC East based on better division record (4–4) than Phoenix (3–5).
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.