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Following the NFL and AFL Championship Games for the 1966 through 1969 seasons, the NFL champion played the AFL champion in Super Bowls I through IV, the only true inter-league championship games in the history of professional football.
The Bears recorded the largest victory in a championship game, defeating the Washington Redskins 73–0 in the 1940 NFL Championship Game; six other title games ended in a shutout as well. The Philadelphia Eagles recorded two consecutive shutouts in 1948 and 1949.
The NFL started in 1920 and has had eras of NFL Champions, AFL Champions, and Super Bowl Champions. View a list of every champion in NFL history.
The Packers defeated the Chiefs in the first AFL–NFL World Championship Game (Super Bowl I). The Super Bowl is the annual American football game that determines the champion of the National Football League (NFL). The game culminates a season that begins in the previous calendar year, and is the conclusion of the NFL playoffs.
Here is a list of all NFL champions for every season since 1920, as well as the AFL champions from 1960 to 1969.
Until the Super Bowl era, the winners of the two divisions met for the NFL Championship. If there was a tie in the standings for a division, a one-game playoff would break the tie to determine the team to advance to the championship game, with the home field determined by coin flip.
1924. Before the season, the owner of the Cleveland Indians bought the Canton Bulldogs and "mothballed" it, taking the team's nickname and players to Cleveland for the season. The Canton Bulldogs had won the NFL championship in 1923, and won it again as the Cleveland Bulldogs in 1924. 1925. The Canton Bulldogs were reactivated.
Check out the history of the NFL, AFL and all of pro football on Pro-football-reference.com.
The National Football League (NFL) is the major American professional football organization. It was founded in 1920 in Canton, Ohio, as the American Professional Football Association. The NFL season culminates with an annual playoff tournament that leads to the Super Bowl championship game.
Following its founding in 1920, the NFL first determined champions through end-of-season standings, switching to a playoff system in 1933 (a one-game playoff was required in 1932).