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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.
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The NFL officially counts and includes the statistical records logged by teams that played in the American Football League (AFL) as part of NFL history. Therefore, these teams' pre-merger win–loss records are accounted for. However, the NFL does not officially count All-America Football Conference statistics, despite the 1950 NFL–AAFC ...
First NFL quarterback to reach 200 career wins (regular season and postseason combined): Peyton Manning vs. Carolina Panthers; February 7, 2016 First NFL quarterback to reach 250 career wins (regular season and postseason combined) : Tom Brady vs. Carolina Panthers ; September 20, 2020
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–loss records
Within a division, all four teams play 14 out of their 17 games against common opponents or each other– two games (home and away) are played against the other three teams in the division, while one game is held against all the members of a division from the NFC and a division from the AFC as determined by a rotating cycle (three years for the ...
The inverse scenario, seeing a team go from winning their division to finishing in last place the following season, has also been observed by NFL media. [31] [32] The Cincinnati Bengals who went from worst-to-first in 1970 then achieved the opposite feat the following season, as the 1971 Bengals squad finished in last place in their division. [33]
The American Professional Football Association is formed on September 17, 1920, at Canton, Ohio, with Jim Thorpe elected president. [1] The fourteen teams were mainly drawn from the Ohio League, Chicago Circuit, New York Pro Football League and other teams from the lower midwest.