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EspañolNATIONAL FOOTBALL CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
The 'NFC Championship Game' is one of the two semi-final matches of the National Football League, the largest professional American football league in the United States. The game is currently played on the penultimate Sunday in January and determines the champion of the National Football Conference. The winner receives the 'George Halas Trophy' and advances to face the winner of the AFC Championship Game in the Super Bowl on the first Sunday in February. The current NFC Champions are the Chicago Bears.
It began in 1970 after the merger between the NFL and the American Football League. The NFC was formed with most of the teams that played in the NFL before the merger.
| Contents |
| Playoff structure |
| Trivia |
| List of Championship Games |
| NFC Championship Game appearances 1970- |
| See also |
| References |
| External links |
Playoff structure
At the end of each football season, a series of playoff games involving the top six teams in the NFC are conducted, consisting of the four division champions and two wild card teams. The two teams remaining play in the NFC Championship game.
Trivia
★ Since the NFL-AFL merger, the Dallas Cowboys (1970, 1971, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1992, 1993, 1995) have won the most NFC Championships with 8. Including the years before the merger, the Green Bay Packers have won the most championships with 10 (1936, 1939, 1944, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1996, 1997)
★ Including the NFL years, the Dallas Cowboys have appeared in a record 16 NFL/NFC Championship Games. (2 before the merger and 14 after the merger).
★ The Dallas Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles hold the record of appearing in the most consecutive NFC Championship Games with 4 appearances (Dallas – 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 and Philadelphia – 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004).
★ The Dallas Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles also share the record for most consecutive losses in the NFC Championship Game with 3 (Dallas – 1980, 1981, 1982 and Philadelphia – 2001, 2002, 2003).
★ Since the NFL-AFL merger, five franchises in the NFC have appeared in more than five NFC Championship Games. The teams include: the Dallas Cowboys (14 appearances), the San Francisco 49ers (12 appearances), the Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams (10 appearances), the Minnesota Vikings (7 appearances), and the Washington Redskins (6 appearances).
★ San Francisco is the city that has hosted the most NFC Championship Games. The city has hosted the game on 8 separate occasions (1970, 1981, 1984, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1997) although San Francisco loses the NFL claim to the AFC's Pittsburgh Steelers with 9 times as host for any Championship Game.
★ The attendance record for an NFC Championship Game was set in Los Angeles when the Los Angeles Rams lost to the Dallas Cowboys on January 4, 1976. The paid attendance was 88,919.
★ Including the years before the merger, only two championship games have ever gone into overtime. (1958 – Baltimore Colts vs. New York Giants, 1998 – Atlanta Falcons vs. Minnesota Vikings)
★ In the years after the merger, the record for most points scored by a winning team is 41. (1991 –Washington Redskins vs. Detroit Lions, 2000 –New York Giants vs. Minnesota Vikings). Before the merger, the record for most points scored by a winning team was 73 (1940 – Chicago Bears vs. Washington Redskins)
★ The only current NFC team to have not appeared in an NFC Championship Game since the NFL-AFL merger is the Arizona Cardinals
★ Three teams since the merger have never won an NFC Championship. These teams include the Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions, and the New Orleans Saints.
★ Only three NFC Championship Games were played in a dome stadium. These games were played in Minneapolis in 1998, and in St. Loius in 1999 and 2001.
★ A team from the NFC South has appeared in every NFC Championship Game since the 2002 realignment: Tampa Bay in 2003, Carolina in 2004 and 2006, Atlanta in 2005, and New Orleans in 2007. The NFC South is also the first division since the realignment that has had each team in the division make at least one Conference Championship Game appearance.
★ The winning team is rewarded with t-shirts and hats after the game that usually declare them "NFC Conference Champions", an example of a redundant acronym
List of Championship Games
1. Sudden-death overtime
NFC Championship Game appearances 1970-
| Num | Team | W | L | PCT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | Dallas Cowboys | 8 | 6 | .571 |
| 12 | San Francisco 49ers | 5 | 7 | .417 |
| 9 | Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams | 3 | 6 | .333 |
| 7 | Minnesota Vikings | 3 | 4 | .429 |
| 6 | Washington Redskins | 5 | 1 | .833 |
| 5 | Philadelphia Eagles | 2 | 3 | .400 |
| 4 | Chicago Bears | 2 | 2 | .500 |
| 3 | New York Giants | 3 | 0 | 1.00 |
| 3 | Green Bay Packers | 2 | 1 | .667 |
| 3 | Carolina Panthers | 1 | 2 | .333 |
| 3 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 1 | 2 | .333 |
| 2 | Atlanta Falcons | 1 | 1 | .500 |
| 1 | Seattle Seahawks | 1 | 0 | 1.00 |
| 1 | New Orleans Saints | 0 | 1 | .000 |
| 1 | Detroit Lions | 0 | 1 | .000 |
The St. Louis/Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals have never appeared in an NFC Championship Game.
See also
★ American Football Conference Championship Game
References
NFC Championship logo, 2001-2005
★ Time Almanac 2004
External links
★ National Football League
★ Super Bowl
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