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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. This happened ...
NFL Championship Game Season No. of teams Division champions AFL Championship Game Game Champion Eastern Conference Western Conference Year Champion Eastern Division Western Division Year Champion 1960: 13 Philadelphia Eagles: Green Bay Packers: 1960: Philadelphia Eagles: 1960: 8 Houston Oilers: Los Angeles Chargers: 1960: Houston Oilers ...
The NFL's biggest game of the year is just around the corner. Super Bowl LIX — the 59th championship game to date — will be held on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025, at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.
The divisional round will take place on Saturday, January 18, and Sunday, January 19, followed by the NFC and AFC conference championship games on Sunday, January 26.
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 ...
Two of the 20 games played lasted an excess of four hours while the shortest of the bunch was Super Bowl 44, which saw the New Orleans Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 in just 3 hours and ...
The American Professional Football Association is reorganized at Akron, Ohio on April 30, 1921, with Joe F. Carr elected as new league president. [1] With the low entry barrier of a $100 membership fee, the number of teams balloons to 21. [1]