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

conferences. Divisions (1933–1949): Eastern and Western Conferences (1950–1952): American and National Conferences (1953–1966): Eastern and Western Conferences...

Bears The 1969 NFL season was the 50th regular season of the National Football League, and its last before the AFL–NFL merger. To honor the NFL's fiftieth...

competed between teams from each conference. NFL postseason history can be traced to the first NFL Championship Game in 1933, though in the early years, qualification...

Philadelphia Eagles, and Pittsburgh Pirates. The league split into Eastern and Western Divisions with the winner of each division playing in the NFL Championship...

Football Conference (AAFC), then the Eastern and Western conferences in 1953. The two division/conference regular season champions then played in the NFL Championship...

out the conferences by adding the expansion New Orleans Saints to the seven-member Western Conference, the NFL realigned the conferences and split each...

Football League (NFL), and became the American Football Conference. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout...

eight-team conferences split into two divisions each: the newly renamed Eastern Conference divisions were Capitol (Dallas, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Washington)...

1967, the NFL realigned teams from the existing two conferences into newly created divisions. The Eastern conference contained the Capitol and Century divisions...

League champions, prior to the merger between the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) in 1970, were determined by two different...

Central Oklahoma Keith Traylor, former NFL nose tackle Eastern New Mexico University Mike Sinclair, former Pro Bowl NFL defensive end, current Chicago Bears...

1917–1934, 2005– Northern Football Conference, 1954– Eastern Football League, 1961– Empire Football League, 1969– Mason-Dixon Football League, 1978–...

California. The Eastern Conference was split into the Capitol and Century Divisions, and the Western Conference had the Coastal and Central Divisions...

"National" and "American" became the names of the league's new conferences, within three years the conferences were renamed Eastern and Western. It was not...

the Eastern conference and the National conference to the Western conference. No teams changed conferences as a result of this. In 1961, the NFL expanded...

second-place teams from the NFL's two conferences (Eastern and Western). This doubled from two to four the number of top NFL teams appearing in post-season...

the 1920s and 1930s as the league adopted progressively more formal organization. The first official championship game was held in 1933. The NFL stopped...

Johnson - former NFL linebacker San Francisco 49ers. Named 2012 Western Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year. Cody Jones — former NFL defensive tackle...

Conference – Eastern Division or AFC East is one of the four divisions of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL)...

given to the Eastern Kentucky–Western Kentucky football rivalry. Both schools were formerly members of the Ohio Valley Conference, and played against...

Conference (1946–1949, two teams now in NFL) AFL – American Football League (1960–1969, now the American Football Conference of the major league NFL)...

in the NFL, dating back to 1933. During the first three decades of the rivalry, the Steelers and Eagles were in the NFL's Eastern Division and played...

United States since the late 19th century. The NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL have millions of fans across the nation and are an important part of American culture...

(NFL). Led by sixth-year head coach Don Shula, they finished the regular season with a record of 13 wins and 1 loss, and won the Western Conference's Coastal...

era (1893–1914). During the AFL–NFL merger period (1966–1969), the AFL and NFL awarded their own championships, and those two champions faced each other...

post-season games (conference championships and bowl games), winning seven. Central Michigan has been a member of the following conferences.: 109–117  Independent...

conferences (Conference USA, the Mid-American Conference, the Mountain West Conference, the Sun Belt Conference and the Western Athletic Conference)...

National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) North Division. Founded in 1933, the Steelers are the seventh-oldest...

the NFL). From 1951 to 2013, the Pro Bowl followed an inter-conference format (Eastern vs. Western from 1951 to 1969 and American Football Conference vs...