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1933–1965: NFL Championship Game. Starting in 1933, the NFL decided its champion through a single postseason playoff game, called the NFL Championship Game. During this period, the league divided its teams into two groups, through 1949 as divisions and from 1950 onward as conferences .
Jacksonville Jaguars, 29 years – 1995 expansion team; three AFC Championship Game appearances in the 1996, 1999, and 2017 seasons. [ 86] Dallas Cowboys, 28 years – Won Super Bowl XXX, 1995 season. Tennessee Titans, 24 years – Lost Super Bowl XXXIV, 1999 season.
It includes both regular season and postseason games. The highest-scoring game overall was a 1966 game between the Washington Redskinsand New York Giants, which produced a combined 113 points with a score of 72–41. The most points scored by one team in a single game is the 73 the Chicago Bearsscored in the 1940 NFL Championship Game, which is ...
The Browns continued their dominance in the NFL as they appeared in six straight NFL Championship games from 1950 to 1955, winning the NFL title in 1950, 1954, and 1955. During that time the Steelers were among the NFL's worst teams.
The win enabled them to tie the Browns for the conference title, and though the Giants had won both games against Cleveland in the regular season, the rules of the time required a tiebreaker playoff game on December 21. At Yankee Stadium in 20 °F (−7 °C) weather, the Giants defeated the Browns for a third time in a shut out, building a 10–0 lead at the half, which was the final score.
The Bears–Packers rivalry is a National Football League (NFL) rivalry between the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers.The two teams have a combined 70 members in the Pro Football Hall of Fame (37 for Chicago and 33 for Green Bay), have won a combined 22 NFL championships (13 for Green Bay and 9 for Chicago, first and second place among all NFL teams), and includes five Super Bowl ...
The 1965 NFL Championship Game was the 33rd championship game for the National Football League (NFL), played on January 2, 1966, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. This was the first NFL championship game played in January, as well as the first televised in color and the last played prior to the Super Bowl era. It would be staged four ...
Prior to this season, the last time the Lions and Browns each reached double digits in wins in the same year was 1953 — when Detroit wound up beating Cleveland in the NFL championship. Amon-Ra ...