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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.
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.
Snow - Super Bowl XLI was the first to feature rain, but snow has yet to fall during a Super Bowl, mainly because the league has purposely placed the game in venues where snow is rare. Only once, Super Bowl XLVIII , has the league awarded the Super Bowl to an outdoor venue where snow is a common occurrence in late January and early February ...
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.
Where does last year's instant classic between the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons rank among the other 50 Super Bowls before it?
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.
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 ...
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.