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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.
The APFA did not keep records of the 1920 season; they declared the Akron Pros, who finished the season with an 8–0–3 (8 wins, 0 losses, 3 ties) record, as the league's first champions by a vote of the owners. The Canton Bulldogs won two straight championships from 1922 to 1923, and the Green Bay Packers won three in a row from 1929 to 1931 ...
1933 NFL Championship Game. The 1933 NFL Championship Play-off Game was the first scheduled championship game of the National Football League (NFL) since its founding in 1920. It was played on December 17 at Wrigley Field in Chicago, [1][2] and the attendance was estimated at 25,000. [3][4] The game was between the champions of the league's ...
The National Football League (NFL) was founded in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (APFA) with ten teams from four states, all of whom existed in some form as participants of regional leagues in their respective territories. The league took on its current name in 1922. The NFL was the first professional football league to ...
New England Patriots (XXXVIII and XXXIX) Kansas City Chiefs (LVII and LVIII) Although no franchise to date has won three Super Bowls in a row, several have had eras of sustained success, nearly accomplishing a three-peat: The Green Bay Packers won the first two Super Bowls, and also won the NFL Championship Game the preceding year. If the Super ...
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 2020 win was the franchise’s first Super Bowl win in 50 years and coach Andy Reid’s first in his career as head coach. ... clinch the championship game and become the third Black QB ever ...
The 1958 NFL Championship Game was the 26th NFL championship game, played on December 28 at Yankee Stadium in New York City. It was the first NFL playoff game to be decided in sudden death overtime. [9] The Baltimore Colts defeated the New York Giants 23–17 in what soon became widely known as " the Greatest Game Ever Played ". [16]