Detroit The 1953 NFL Championship Game was the 21st annual championship game, held on December 27 at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. The defending NFL champion...

The 1968 NFL Championship Game was the 36th annual championship game. The winner of the game represented the National Football League (NFL) in the third...

The 1954 NFL Championship Game was the National Football League's 22nd annual championship game, held on December 26 at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland...

the merger in 1970, the NFL and the AFL agreed to hold an undisputed Championship Game called the AFL-NFL World Championship Game (renamed the Super Bowl...

NFL Championship Game was the 26th NFL championship game, played on December 28 at Yankee Stadium in New York City. It was the first NFL playoff game...

Detroit Detroit  The 1957 NFL Championship Game was the 25th annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL), held on December 29 at Briggs...

Cleveland The 1945 NFL Championship Game was the 13th National Football League (NFL) championship game. Held on December 16, the Cleveland Rams defeated...

December 27 with the NFL championship game in which the Detroit Lions defeated the Cleveland Browns for the second year in a row. The 1953 NFL draft was held...

Cleveland Cleveland The 1964 NFL Championship Game was the 32nd annual championship game, held on December 27 at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio...

To settle the tie, a playoff game was played; Chicago won the game and the championship. The following year, the NFL split into two divisions, and the...

2001. Jim Cain: A member of the Detroit Lions team that won the 1953 NFL Championship Game Sam Claphan: Chargers tight end from 1980 to 1987, Claphan died...

Polo  Grounds The 1936 NFL Championship Game was the fourth championship game played in the National Football League (NFL). It took place on December 13...

Conference (AFC) Championship Game has faced the winner of the National Football Conference (NFC) Championship Game in the culmination of the NFL playoffs. Before...

Cleveland The 1952 NFL Championship Game was the 20th annual championship game, held on December 28 at Cleveland Municipal Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio...

and Western conferences in 1953. The two division/conference regular season champions then played in the NFL Championship Game. If two teams tied for the...

implemented in 1933 that culminated with the NFL Championship Game until 1966. Following an agreement to merge the NFL with the rival American Football League...

official NFL championship game pre-AFL-NFL merger was played in 1969. This list also counts all seasons since a team last won the league championship or Super...

Pennsylvania and unrelated to the current NFL, attempted to settle its championship over Thanksgiving weekend; after the game ended in a tie, eventually all three...

to 1955. DuMont's NFL coverage consisted of contracts the network signed with individual NFL teams. Only for the NFL Championship Game did the network actually...

Divisions in 1953 and once more to the Eastern and Western Conferences in 1967, were organized as a result of the NFL championship of 1932. NFL owners agreed...

this game drew 12,252 fans, less than one-third of the average for the Lions' home games that year. Two weeks later, the Lions won the NFL Championship. Halfback...

Lions had their most success in the 1950s, winning the NFL Championship three times, in 1952, 1953, and 1957, and made several playoff appearances in the...

place in the NFL's Western Division, and defeated the Cleveland Browns 17–16 in the NFL Championship Game at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. The 1953 Lions ranked...

sports leagues in North America. The NFL maintained a blackout policy, from 1973 through 2014, that stated that a home game cannot be televised in the team's...

expertise, and commentary to the Madden NFL video game series, which became the best-selling American football video game franchise of all time. Madden was...

progressively more formal organization. The first official championship game was held in 1933. The NFL stopped signing black players in 1927 but reintegrated...

football franchise was officially created in 1953, but can trace its history much earlier than this, to before the NFL itself actually began in 1920: its earliest...

when the Cleveland Browns defeated the Detroit Lions in the NFL Championship Game. The 1954 NFL draft was held on January 28, 1954 at Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford...

broadcast the National Football League Championship Game from the 1940s until the 1969 NFL season (after which the NFL merged with the American Football League)...

single-elimination U.S. championship or international championship game, with those winners advancing to the World Championship game. Additionally, each team...