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The NFC had a streak in which its champion won 13 consecutive Super Bowls, from the 1984 NFC champion San Francisco 49ers through the 1996 NFC champion Green Bay Packers. Overall, the NFC champion has won 27 of the 54 Super Bowls played since the formation of the NFC with the AFL–NFL merger through the end of the 2023 season.
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 ...
1967 was the first year where a pre-scheduled playoff (rather than regular season results) determined participation in the championship. It also marked the first year in which if there was a tie for first place in a division, the division champion was determined by a system of tiebreakers, rather than via a playoff game (as detailed in the 1933 ...
Two weeks later, the AFC and NFC champions met in the Super Bowl, now the league's championship game. Thus, Super Bowl V in January 1971 was the first Super Bowl played for the NFL title. With the introduction of the wild card, a rule was instituted to prohibit two teams from the same division (champion and wild card) from meeting in the first ...
Early championships between 1920 and 1932 were awarded to the team with the best won-lost record, initially rather haphazardly, as some teams played more or fewer games than others, or scheduled games against non-league, amateur or collegiate teams; this led to the 1920 title being determined during a league meeting after the season, [3] the 1921 title being decided on a controversial ...
Team with the lowest regular season winning percentage to reach the NFC Championship Game, 8–7 (0.533) Minnesota Vikings, 1987. Team with the lowest regular season winning percentage to reach the AFC Championship Game, 9–7 (0.563) Seattle Seahawks, 1983 Pittsburgh Steelers, 1984 Indianapolis Colts, 1995 Jacksonville Jaguars, 1996 New York ...
That means they either are going to their first NFC championship game since the end of the 1995 season, or someone is winning at Dallas where the Cowboys have been phenomenal most of the season ...
The 2020 National Football Conference (NFC) Championship Game was played between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Green Bay Packers on January 24, 2021, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. After signing quarterback Tom Brady and trading for tight end Rob Gronkowski , the Buccaneers went 11–5 and made the playoffs as a Wild Card team.