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The first official National Football League (NFL) playoff game was the 1933 NFL Championship Game between the Chicago Bears and New York Giants. A "playoff" game was played in 1932 between the Chicago Bears and Portsmouth Spartans to break a regular season tie, but is recorded in the team record books as a regular season game. [1]
The Top 100: NFL's Greatest Players was a ten-part television series that set out to determine the top 100 greatest NFL players of all time. It was presented by the NFL Network in 2010. The series was based on a list of the top 100 National Football League players of all time, as compiled by a "blue-ribbon" panel assembled by the NFL Network ...
Washington Redskins vs Chicago Bears, Dec 8, 1940 (NFL Championship Game) Detroit Lions vs Cleveland Browns, Dec 26, 1954 (NFL Championship Game) Houston Oilers vs Pittsburgh Steelers, Jan 7, 1979 (AFC Championship Game) Buffalo Bills vs Dallas Cowboys, Jan 31, 1993 (Super Bowl XXVII) Most Turnovers, Both Teams, Game, 14
Note: Y. A. Tittle passed for 33,070 yards in his professional career, which would place him in 44th on this list, but 4,731 of those yards came in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC), which the NFL does not recognize statistics and records from to date. [54] [55] Thus, Tittle's career passing yards total in the NFL stands at 28,339. [56]
The San Francisco 49ers have the most post-season victories (38) in NFL playoff history, while the Minnesota Vikings have the most playoff losses (32). The Cleveland Browns have the lowest playoff win–loss percentage (.353), holding a 12–22 record. The Houston Texans have the fewest games played (12), wins (5), and losses (7) in NFL playoff ...
Some players avoid injury and maintain their high skill level. The following list has the top 250 players who have the most regular season game appearances. All have played at least a dozen seasons in the league. One player, George Blanda [3] played in 4 decades from the 1940s to the 1970s. Blanda played 26 seasons and was 48 years old when he ...
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.
In 2010, NFL Network aired The Top 100: NFL's Greatest Players, an all-time top 100 list, with wide receiver Jerry Rice being voted as the number-one player. The following year, the network debuted their annual NFL Top 100, with quarterback Tom Brady being voted at the top. Brady holds the record for most number-one selections, with four (2011 ...