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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.
Cincinnati Bengals (3) – XVI, XXIII, and LVI; an AFL expansion team in 1968, they have no pre-Super Bowl league championships. Carolina Panthers (2) – XXXVIII and 50; a post-merger expansion team, their first season was in 1995. Atlanta Falcons (2) – XXXIII and LI; an NFL expansion team in 1966, they have no pre-Super Bowl league ...
In 1967, the NFL expanded to 16 teams and split its two conferences into two divisions of four teams each. The four division champions advanced to the league's first guaranteed multi–game playoffs. To remain on schedule, a tie-breaker system was introduced.
Although a team's home and away opponents are known by the end of the previous year's regular season, the exact dates and times for NFL games are not determined until much later because the league has to account for, among other things, the Major League Baseball postseason and local events that could pose a scheduling conflict with NFL games ...
In 1967 and 1969, the teams in the division were Dallas, Philadelphia, Washington and the expansion team New Orleans Saints, with the New York Giants swapping divisions with the Saints for the 1968 season. This arrangement had been agreed in advance as a means to ensure all of the NFL's teams would be able to visit New York once in those three ...
Home field for the 1933 title game was determined by the won-lost percentage in use at the time; the Western Division champion Chicago Bears (10–2–1, .833), having a better record than the Eastern Division champion New York Giants (11–3–0, .786), won the right to host the first
Season Eastern Division Record Western Division Record 1933: New York Giants: 11–3 Chicago Bears: 10–2–1 1934: New York Giants: 8–5 Chicago Bears: 13–0 1935: New York Giants: 9–3 Detroit Lions: 7–3–2 1936: Boston Redskins: 7–5 Green Bay Packers: 10–1–1 1937: Washington Redskins: 8–3 Chicago Bears: 9–1–1 1938: New ...
This is a complete listing of National Football League (NFL) playoff games, grouped by franchise. Games featuring relocated teams [ nb 1 ] are kept with their ultimate relocation franchises. Bolded years indicate wins.