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NFL championships by franchise. In the sortable table below, teams are ordered first by number of wins, then by number of appearances, then by year of first championship won, and finally by year of first appearance.
- 1920–1929—The Chicago Bears Begin
- 1930–1939—The Bears Versus Packers
- 1940–1949—The Bears Keep Winning
- 1950–1959—Era of The Browns
- 1960–1969—The Super Bowl Begins
- 1970–1979—The Leagues Merge
- 1980–1989—The Rice-Montana Era
- 1990–1999—America's Team
- 2000–2009—The Brady Era Begins
- 2000–2009—Goal-Line Stand and Historic Comeback
The NFL held no championship games during this decade. An aging Jim Thorpe "moved from Canton to the (football) Cleveland Indians, but he was hurt early in the season and played very little," NFL.com notes. Another famous football legend came into play during this period: George Halas took over the Decatur Staleys as player-coach and moved the team...
The Green Bay Packers established their first era of dominance, having won the championship in 1929, and would continue to win two more during the early part of the decade. The year 1933 also saw the first championship game, with the Chicago Bears defeating the Eastern Division champion Giants 23-21 at Wrigley Field on December 17. Halas, who had s...
The Bears continued to dominate the decade, winning 50 percent of the championship games during the period. During the decade: "The team acquired the University of Chicago's discarded nickname 'Monsters of the Midway ' and their now-famous helmet 'C,' as well as a newly penned theme song, 'The Pride and Joy of Illinois'," according to Wikipedia. 19...
This was the decade of the Cleveland Browns, which won three championships during the period, though the Baltimore Colts came on strong at the end of 10-year-span, winning two consecutive championships in 1958 and 1959. 1950 - Cleveland Browns 1951 - Los Angeles Rams 1952 - Detroit Lions 1953 - Detroit Lions 1954 - Cleveland Browns 1955 - Cleveland...
The fledgling American Football League jockeyed with the NFL for players and fans from 1960 through 1969. The teams began playing a championship game, dubbed the "Super Bowl" in 1967. Vince Lombardi's mighty Green Bay Packers dominated the first two championship matchups, winning in 1967 and 1968. But, the 1968-1969 season saw the rise of brash, yo...
In 1970, The AFL and NFL merged with the AFL to be designated as the American Football Conference and the NFL now known as the National Football Conference. Yearly Super Bowls continued to determine the NFL champions. Feisty and competitive Louisiana-born Terry Bradshaw and the vaunted "Steel Curtain," the front four of the Pittsburg Steelers defen...
San Francisco quarterback Joe Montana, together with Jerry Rice, widely regarded as the best receiver in NFL history, dominated the decade, winning four Super Bowls—technically, the fourth was in early 1990, after the 1989 season—making the 49ers the dynasty of the 1980s. 1980 - Pittsburgh Steelers 1981 - Oakland Raiders 1982 - San Francisco 49ers ...
Sparked by quarterback Troy Aikman, the Dallas Cowboys—dubbed America's Team—won three Super Bowls in a four-year span during the first half of the decade. Denver quarterback John Elway, long considered a superstar but a perennial loser in championship games, finally won two consecutive Super Bowls. 1990 - San Francisco 49ers 1991 - New York Giants...
The tandem of coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady began a run that would eventually lead to five wins in seven Super Bowl appearances over the course of two decades. The streak began with a stunning upset of quarterback Kurt Warner and the St. Loius Rams—the Greatest Show on Turf—by Brady and Belichick despite New England coming into the...
With just 20 seconds remaining in Super Bowl XLIX, and Seattle poised on New England's one-yard line seemingly about to take the lead and win the game—the Seahawks had Marshawn Lynch, the league's greatest rusher, ready to go into "Beast Mode" and power the ball in for that final yard—Seattle inexplicably opted to pass. New England's undrafted rook...
- James Alder
List of NFL champions (1920–1969) The 1920 Akron Pros were named the first APFA (NFL) champions. The National Football League champions, prior to the merger between the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) in 1970, were determined by two different systems.
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Green Bay last won the NFL Championship in 2011 when it beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLV, claiming a 31-25 victory. Contents. 11920 – 1932: The early years. 21933 – 1966: The advent of the postseason. 2.11933 – 1966: NFL Championship Game. 2.21946 – 1949: AAFC Championship Game. 2.31960 – 1966: AFL Championship Game.
Championships table key and summary (1966–1969) (1970–present) National Football League (NFL) National Football Conference (NFC) NFL champion n (4, 2–2) NFC champion N (54, 27–27) American Football League (AFL) American Football Conference (AFC) AFL champion a (4, 2–2) AFC champion A (54, 27–27)
The Philadelphia Eagles recorded two consecutive shutouts in 1948 and 1949. New York City hosted the most championship games (eight), while the highest-attended title game was the 1955 NFL Championship Game, where 85,693 fans showed up in Los Angeles to watch the Browns beat the Rams 38–14. [4] APFA/NFL champions (1920–32)
View All Time NFL Franchise Rankings. A complete list of past Super Bowl winners, including the winning score, location and MVP since the first Super Bowl held in Los Angeles in 1967. Now including who lost the NFC and AFC Championship game.
