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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 .
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 ...
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.
With the win, the Packers earned their tenth NFL championship; it was their second in a row and fourth in six seasons under Lombardi, in his eighth year as Green Bay's head coach. This was the Packers' only post-season win against the Cowboys in the Dallas area until the 2016 season , when they beat them in another tooth and nail game to advance to the NFC Championship Game .
The APFA did not keep records of the 1920 season; they declared the Akron Pros, who finished the season with an 8–0–3 (8 wins, 0 losses, 3 ties) record, as the league's first champions by a vote of the owners. The Canton Bulldogs won two straight championships from 1922 to 1923, and the Green Bay Packers won three in a row from 1929 to 1931 ...
The Browns were penalized 22 times, but still salvaged the victory. Consequently, the 22 in-game infractions committed by the Browns made Cleveland the first NFL team to win a game, despite being penalized that many times. The Rams also lost, 31–21, at Washington, and both fell to 6–3–0, giving the Lions the National Conference lead ...
1967–68 NFL playoffs. Champ. Game. The NFL playoffs following the 1967 NFL season culminated in the NFL championship game on New Year's Eve, and determined who would represent the league against the American Football League champions in Super Bowl II . With 16 teams in the league in 1967, this was the first season that the NFL used a four ...
Browns win eight straight meetings, lose 1953 NFL Championship Game. 1954: Tie 1–1: Browns 42–7: Steelers 55–27: Browns 9–1 Steelers win first game over Browns. Browns win 1954 NFL Championship Game. 1955: Browns 2–0: Browns 41–14: Browns 30–7: Browns 11–1 Browns win 1955 NFL Championship. 1956: Tie 1–1: Steelers 24–16 ...