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The Super Bowl — the NFL's championship game — pits the winner of the American Football Conference against the ... Pre-Super Bowl era league champions. 1965: Green Bay Packers (NFL), Buffalo ...
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.
Cincinnati Bengals (3) – XVI, XXIII, and LVI; an AFL expansion team in 1968, they have no pre-Super Bowl league championships. Carolina Panthers (2) – XXXVIII and 50; a post-merger expansion team, their first season was in 1995. Atlanta Falcons (2) – XXXIII and LI; an NFL expansion team in 1966, they have no pre-Super Bowl league ...
The expanded league, now with twenty-six teams, [29] would also feature an expanded eight-team playoff, the participants being the three division champions from each conference as well as one 'wild card' team (the team with the best win percentage that did not win its division) from each conference.
The NFL playoffs kicked off on Saturday, Jan. 11 with the league's wild card weekend and will conclude on Feb. 9 with Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans. Below is a look at the schedule, scores and ...
2017 Super Bowl (51): New England Patriots 34, Atlanta Falcons 28 2018 Super Bowl (52): Philadelphia Eagles 41, New England Patriots 33 2019 Super Bowl (53): New England Patriots 13, Los Angeles ...
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.
After the merger in 1970, the 10 AFL teams and three of the NFL teams formed the American Football Conference (AFC) and the remaining 13 NFL teams formed the National Football Conference (NFC). All games since 1971's Super Bowl V have been played between the best team from each of the two conferences, the NFC has won 30 while the AFC has won 29.