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Since the 2011 season, the NFL has held the annual NFL Honors ceremony, which recognizes the winner of the Associated Press MVP award. [2] The first award described as a most valuable player award was the Joe F. Carr Trophy, presented by the NFL from 1938 to 1946.
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.
From the 1970 season to the 1977 season, four teams from each conference (for a total of eight teams) qualified for the playoffs each year. These four teams included the three division champions, and a fourth wild-card team. [24] Originally, the home teams in the playoffs were decided based on a yearly rotation.
Team with the lowest regular season winning percentage to reach the Super Bowl, 9–7 (0.563) Los Angeles Rams, 1979 Arizona Cardinals, 2008 New York Giants, 2011. Team with the lowest regular season winning percentage to win the Super Bowl, 9–7 (0.563) New York Giants, 2011. Longest playoff game, 82 minutes, 40 seconds
[8] [9] After a run of four consecutive appearances in the playoffs from 2005 to 2008, the Giants returned to the Super Bowl in the 2011 playoffs, where they defeated the Patriots 21–17 in a rematch for their eighth title. In the most recent season, 2023, the Giants went 6–11 and did not qualify for the postseason.
This game was the final time the Giants won a playoff game at Giants Stadium. It was also their last playoff win at home until they defeated the Atlanta Falcons during the Wild Card round during the 2011–12 NFL playoffs. This was the third postseason meeting between the Vikings and Giants. Both teams split their first two meetings. [1]
The Giants entered the season as the defending Super Bowl champion but failed to qualify for the playoffs. They were the sixth team in NFL history to enter a season as the defending Super Bowl champion and miss the playoffs. [1] The Giants started the season 0–5, becoming the first defending Super Bowl champion to lose their first 5 games.
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]