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1933–1965: NFL Championship Game. Starting in 1933, the NFL decided its champion through a single postseason playoff game, called the NFL Championship Game. During this period, the league divided its teams into two groups, through 1949 as divisions and from 1950 onward as conferences.
NFL playoff results. NFL playoff results is a listing of the year-by-year results of the NFL Playoff games to determine the final two teams for the championship game. The winners of those games are listed in NFL Championship Game article. The overall franchise records are shown in the last table.
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 ...
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 ...
The 1965 NFL Championship Game was the 33rd championship game for the National Football League (NFL), played on January 2, 1966, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. [1][2][3][4] This was the first NFL championship game played in January, as well as the first televised in color and the last played prior to the Super Bowl era.
The 1940 NFL Championship Game, sometimes referred to simply as 73–0, was the eighth title game of the National Football League (NFL). It was played at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C., on December 8, with a sellout capacity attendance of 36,034. [1][2] The Chicago Bears (8–3) of the Western Division met the Washington Redskins (9–2 ...
The highest-scoring game overall was a 1966 game between the Washington Redskins and New York Giants, which produced a combined 113 points with a score of 72–41. The most points scored by one team in a single game is the 73 the Chicago Bears scored in the 1940 NFL Championship Game, which is not included on this list, as their opponents ...
The 1966 NFL Championship Game was the 34th NFL championship, played at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. [1][2][3][4][5][6] It was the final game of the 1966 NFL season. This was also the last Championship game before the inauguration of the NFL playoffs the following year. It determined the champion of the National Football League (NFL ...