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There are four NFL teams that have never appeared in a Super Bowl: the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Houston Texans, though both the Browns (1950, 1954, 1955, 1964) and Lions (1935, 1952, 1953, 1957) had won NFL Championship Games prior to the creation of the Super Bowl in the 1966 season.
By the time the first Super Bowl was played, the term "bowl" for any major American football game was well established. [5] The Packers defeated the Chiefs in the first AFL–NFL Championship Game, Super Bowl I. For four decades after its 1920 inception, the NFL successfully fended off several rival leagues.
The first round was named the "Divisional Playoffs", the winners advancing to the "Conference Championships" (AFC & NFC). 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.
21. Super Bowl XLV (2011) Green Bay Packers def. Pittsburgh Steelers, 31-25. The never-quit attitude of the Steelers made this a great game after the Packers were dominating 21-10 at halftime.
No matter the outcome, this year's game will surely continue the long line of iconic championships. 50 years of elation and heartbreak: Looking back at the history of the Super Bowl Skip to main ...
The NFL championships describes both the Championship games of the National Football League, which ran from 1920 to 1969; and the Super Bowl, which has run from 1966 to the present. Many players and teams have won these championships on multiple occasions, both during the NFL championships and the Super Bowl era.
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.
The game has changed quite a bit since its inception 51 years ago when the Green Bay Packers won the first-ever NFL championship. 51 years of elation and heartbreak: Looking back at the history of ...