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...

blown lead in the 1957 NFL Western Conference Championship game against the Lions, who later went on to win the 1957 NFL Championship Game against the Browns...

original NFL Championship, and its game results are listed with that of its predecessor in the annual NFL Record and Fact Book. Since the pre-merger NFL consisted...

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...

Cleveland Browns in the NFL championship game, 59–14. The 1957 NFL draft was held on November 26, 1956, and January 31, 1957, at Philadelphia's Warwick...

Yankee  Stadium The 1956 NFL Championship Game was the league's 24th championship game, played at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx in New York City on December...

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...

heartbreak of 1957". The Mercury News. December 23, 2007. Retrieved January 30, 2024. "Memories: Last Detroit NFL championship in 1957". The Voice. January...

the NFL Kickoff Game, and ended on January 7, 2024. The playoffs started on January 13 and concluded with Super Bowl LVIII, the league's championship game...

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...

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

playoff victory between the 1957 NFL Championship Game and a wild-card round victory over the Los Angeles Rams in the 2023-24 NFL playoffs. It was the only...

failure; the NFL's associations with NBC (as well as with CBS) proved to be a boost to the league's popularity. For the 1957 NFL Championship Game, Van Patrick...

tight end David Hill, the Lions' first playoff score since the 1957 NFL Championship Game. Lions receiver Leonard Thompson was the top performer for his...

game against the San Francisco 49ers. He also had two touchdown catches in the Lions' victory over the Cleveland Browns in the 1957 NFL Championship Game...

Football League (NFL) for the Detroit Lions for 13 years from 1953 to 1965. He won two NFL championships with the Lions (1953 and 1957), and, between 1954...

league's championship game, competed between teams from each conference. NFL postseason history can be traced to the first NFL Championship Game in 1933...

quarterback. Reichow saw relief duty at quarterback in the 1957 NFL Championship Game, when Rote left the game with the Lions leading, 52–14. He threw a 17 yard...

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...

seasons, seven of them for the Detroit Lions, with whom he won the 1957 NFL Championship Game. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1979...

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

Super Bowl LIX, the league's championship game, at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, on February 9. The 2024 NFL league year and trading period...

NFL playoff results is a listing of the year-by-year results of the NFL Playoff games to determine the final two teams for the championship game. The winners...

playoffs began in the 1933 season, the last undefeated team earned the NFL championship seven times by having the highest winning percentage (ties were not...

1958. He won an NFL championship with the Lions in 1957 and caught a touchdown pass in the 1957 NFL Championship Game. He concluded his NFL career with the...

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...

continued to dominate. Between 1950 and 1955, Cleveland reached the NFL championship game every year, winning three times. McBride and his partners sold the...

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

namesake for the NFC Championship trophy. Halas was one of the co-founders of the American Professional Football Association (now the NFL) in 1920, and in...

National Football League Championship Game from 1940 to 1943 and 1946. Additionally, he was selected for the NFL All-Star Game from 1940 to 1942. He also...