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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 ...
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.
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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 ...
List of AFC champions; List of dual-threat quarterback records; List of largest comebacks in NFL games; List of last undefeated NFL teams by season; List of NFL longest winning streaks; List of NFL Pro Bowl records; List of NFL quarterbacks by teams beaten; List of NFL quarterbacks with seven touchdown passes in a game; List of NFL Week 1 win ...
The NFL championships describes both the Championship games of the National Football League, which ran from 1920 to 1969; and the Super Bowl, which has run from 1966 to the present. Many players and teams have won these championships on multiple occasions, both during the NFL championships and the Super Bowl era.
The NFL conducted play for thirteen years before creating a "Championship Game": from 1920 through 1932, league "champions" were determined by won-loss record with ties excluded, but the schedules and rules were so ill-defined that conflicts exist to this day over who the actual champions were: some teams played more games than others, while ...
NFL champions: "indicate the number of times that team won the NFL Champion...". "won the NFL championship" sounds like what you're looking for. Fixed. Toa Nidhiki05 01:11, 30 January 2013 (UTC) "as of the of the championship game." Fixed. Toa Nidhiki05 01:11, 30 January 2013 (UTC) We have articles for the championship games, I believe.