The AFL and NFL announced that the two leagues would merge in 1970. In the sortable table below, teams are ordered first by number of appearances, then by number of wins, and finally by year of first appearance. The league used a variation of Starting in 1933, the NFL decided its champion through a single postseason playoff game, called the The home team for the NFL Championship Game was determined by a yearly rotation between the conferences (or divisions), not by regular-season records. NFL Playoff Schedule When is the Championship Round? Sunday, Jan. 19. Play Now The National Football League was established on September 17, 1920, as the American Professional Football Association (APFA). In 1932, a playoff game was needed to determine the championship. AFC: Tennessee Titans at Kansas City Chiefs, 3:05 p.m. NBC
View the NFL Playoff Schedule for the 2020-2021 season at FBSchedules.com. Green Bay also holds the distinction of winning the most NFL titles pre-Super Bowl era with nine.
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AFL-NFL titles from 1966-1969 are not counted since in 1966 AFL and NFL agreed to play an ultimate championship game that evantually would becamoe know as the Super Bowl, in part of the merger deal that was finnalized in 1970.
"Play-Off Plans Given by Layden," p. 33.New York Times, April 30, 1946.
FOX Three of the four league champions who lost one of the first four Super Bowls would eventually win at least one. The Chicago Bears won a total of eight titles, and the Champion determined by win–loss percentage.
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The league recognized the Bidwills' claim to the title and has taken no other action on the issue, although a self-made championship trophy from the Maroons sits in the Part of the controversy over these stems from the criteria the league used to determine its champion. Following its founding in 1920, the NFL first determined champions through end-of-season standings, but switched to a playoff system in 1933.