View the NFL Playoff Schedule for the 2020-2021 season at FBSchedules.com. The first game of what would become the National Football League, a matchup between the Dayton Triangles and the Columbus Panhandles, kicked off at Dayton’s Triangle Park on Oct. 3, 1920. The first NFL broadcast on Nickelodeon is better than we ever could have imagined, and proved immediately that this needs to happen more often. Check out this NFL Schedule, sortable by date and including information on game time, network coverage, and more! The first NFL game to air exclusively on a streaming service nationally drew an impressive crowd on Saturday. At the end of the 1932 season, the Chicago Bears and the Portsmouth Spartans were tied with the best winning percentage at .857, with the Spartans record of 6–1–4 and the Bears record of 6–1–6 taken to be six wins, one loss, while the Green Bay Packers finished 10–3–1. But in the second game of the 1992 season, Majkowski was benched for the entire second half in a 31-3 loss. In 1949, the league held a four-team playoff, with home field based upon won-lost record. Oakland Raiders vs. Week 16 of the 2020 NFL Season will have a great game on Saturday. The first weekend of the 2020 NFL playoffs featured two overtime games and two more tight finishes in regulation. His timber training earned him the nickname “the West Carrollton battering ram,” according to the 2005 story. The merger was announced on June 8, 1966, and became fully effective in 1970. The old NFL Championship Game became the NFC Championship Game, while the old AFL Championship Game became the AFC Championship Game. The Green Bay Packers have won the most NFL championship titles with (13) (9 NFL championships and 4 Super Bowls) and are the only NFL team to win the AFL-NFL World Championship game. The story featured photos of some of the players. The Dayton Triangles won 14-0. The first game involving an APFA team occurred on September 26, when the Rock Island Independents beat the St. Paul Ideals 48–0. The New York Jets and the Kansas City Chiefs are the only AFL teams to win the AFL-NFL World Championship Game. For the 51 seasons from 1921–1971, the NFL did not officially include tie games in the winning percentage, they were omitted from the calculation. Does not include the AFL or NFL championships won during the same seasons as the AFL–NFL Super Bowl championships before the 1970 AFL–NFL merger. Starting in 1933, the NFL decided its champion through a single postseason playoff game, called the NFL Championship Game. Below is a list of professional football champions per season as recognized by the Pro Football Hall of Fame. It will be the first NFL game to stream on Amazon digital platforms and not simulcast on a national TV network. Home field for the 1933 title game was determined by the won-lost percentage in use at the time; the Western Division champion Chicago Bears (10–2–1, .833), having a better record that the Eastern Division champion New York Giants (11–3–0, .786), won the right to host the first title playoff. Discord Server: https://discord.gg/98YJQffArchive Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_rKK9jvqBf6ugVk9cxsc4wOutro Song: Beat - … It was a game in which Buccaneers quarterback Vinny Testaverde absolutely dominated. The major point of the testimony given by the leagues to obtain the law was that if the merger were permitted, "Professional football operations will be preserved in the 23 cities and 25 stadiums where such operations are presently being conducted." Semifinal playoff games were held in 1949, setting up a championship final between the first-place Browns and the second-place San Francisco 49ers. Following the NFL and AFL Championship Games for the 1966 through 1969 seasons, the NFL champion played the AFL champion in Super Bowls I through IV, the only true inter-league championship games in the history of professional football. [10] Finally, for the 2020 season, seven teams per conference will make the playoffs. The playoffs reverted to the 1978 format in the following year. Now, we'll see if the divisional round can live up to that excitement. Teams that earned the top seed became known as clinching "home-field advantage" throughout the playoffs, since they played all of their playoff games at their home stadium (except for the Super Bowl, played at a neutral site). This lack of "home-field advantage" was most evident in the 1972 playoffs, when the undefeated Miami Dolphins played the AFC Championship Game at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh against the Steelers, who were undefeated at home during the regular season, but had three losses on the road. As a result, in the league's first six seasons, four league titles were disputed and had to be resolved by the league's executive committee. The present-day Indianapolis Colts can trace their ancestry to the original Dayton Triangles. Green Bay won both post-season games at home, beating the injury-riddled Colts (with third-string QB Tom Matte) in overtime by a controversial field goal, and taking the title 23–12 on a very muddy field (in what turned out to be Jim Brown's final NFL game). Three of the four league champions who lost one of the first four Super Bowls would eventually win at least one. A century ago, the very first NFL game was played in Dayton. The now-essential relationship between pro football and television actually began on October 22, 1939. He completed it to himself. Each tie was then counted as half of a win and half of a loss, rather than being omitted from the computation. The next was in the 1921 NFL season, between the same All-Americans and Staleys (with the latter now being based in Chicago). The two division winners in each conference met in the "Conference Championships", with the winners advancing to the NFL Championship Game. The cancelations meant Wembley didn’t host at least one regular-season game for the first … The division winners (the first three seeds) would then receive a bye to automatically advance to the Divisional Playoffs, which became the second round of the playoffs. A century ago, the very first NFL game was played in Dayton. Philadelphia Eagles … The league that would become the NFL was founded in 1920; it based its rules on the collegiate game and followed those rules for its first 12 years. The league until 1969 kept using the one-game-playoff format except when division tie-breakers were needed. As part of a Saturday tripleheader on Dec. 26, the NFL has announced that the Week 16 game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Arizona Cardinals will air on Amazon Prime Video and Twitch. As part of a Saturday tripleheader on Dec. 26, the NFL has announced that the Week 16 game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Arizona Cardinals will air on Amazon Prime Video and Twitch. But The rival All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and American Football League (AFL) have since merged with the NFL (the only two AAFC teams that currently exist joined the NFL in 1950—the Cleveland Browns and the San Francisco 49ers), but AAFC championship games and records are not included in NFL record books. Starting with the 1934 game the winning team received the Ed Thorp Memorial Trophy. The 3 seed, the division winner with the worst regular season record in each conference, would then host the 6 seed in the Wild Card Playoffs. View the NFL Playoff Schedule for the 2020-2021 season at FBSchedules.com. However, individual AAFC player statistics are included in Pro Football Hall of Fame records, and the defunct conference is memorialized in the Hall. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Detroit Lions are getting things kicked off. On August 20, 1920, at a Hupmobile dealership in Canton, Ohio, the league was formalized, originally as the American Professional Football Conference, initially consisting only of the Ohio League teams, although some of the teams declined participation. While the Houston Astrodome was the first domed stadium in the NFL (the stadium was host of the Houston Oilers from 1968 to 1996), it did not host the first indoor game in pro football history. It will be the first NFL game to stream on Amazon digital platforms and not simulcast on a national TV network. Lou Partlow, a halfback for the Dayton Triangles, scored the first touchdown in NFL play. Thus, as before, a divisional champion could only play a divisional foe in the conference championship game. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Detroit Lions are getting things kicked off. Buffalo had insisted that the last matchup between the two was an exhibition game not to be counted toward the standings, however, Chicago owner George Halas and league management insisted the game be counted in its standings (the league, at the time, did not recognize exhibition matches). The first round was named the "Divisional Playoffs", the winners advancing to the "Conference Championships" (AFC & NFC). Under the 1978 format, teams from the same division could meet only in the wild-card round or the conference championship. Thereafter, from 1934 onward, the divisions alternated the site of the playoff, with the East/American hosting in even years and the West/National in odd years. In its final season, 1969, the AFL adopted a four-team playoff to determine its champion. Does not include AFL titles won from 1960–1965 or AAFC titles won from 1946–1949. The NFL has also used quizzes to get peripheral sports fans and die-hard fans to buy team merchandise and season tickets, said Aaron Jones, the NFL's director of marketing science and strategy. That honor belongs to New York City’s Madison Square Garden. The first weekend of the 2020 NFL playoffs featured two overtime games and two more tight finishes in regulation. Unlike the AFL statistics which are treated as NFL statistics, records of the AAFC and its teams (most of which folded) are not recognized. The restrictions on intra-division playoff games during the Divisional Playoffs were removed. However, only the top two division winners in each conference (the 1 and 2 seeds) received byes and automatically advanced to the Divisional Playoffs as host teams. In 1990, the NFL expanded the playoffs to twelve teams by adding a third wild-card team (a sixth seed) from each conference. 2 – From 1966 to 1969, the first four Super Bowls were "World Championship" games played between two independent professional football leagues, AFL and NFL, and when the league, This page was last edited on 26 January 2021, at 13:55. While the Houston Astrodome was the first domed stadium in the NFL (the stadium was host of the Houston Oilers from 1968 to 1996), it did not host the first indoor game in pro football history. How to Watch the First NFL Game of the 2020 Season The coronavirus pandemic may have prevented the NFL from having a preseason, but pro football's regular season kicks … The first four Super Bowls served as inter-league championship games because of these inter-league championship games this created some confusion amongst football fans that there was a special World Championship series in the pre-merger era. The fourth and final disputed title was the 1925 NFL Championship controversy between the Pottsville Maroons and the Chicago Cardinals. The surviving clubs with the higher seeds were made the home teams for each playoff round. Clubs played schedules that included games against non-league opponents. A tiebreaker playoff game was played in 1948 to break a tie between the Baltimore Colts and Buffalo Bills (AAFC) for the Eastern Division championship. Two weeks later, the AFC and NFC champions met in the Super Bowl, now the league's championship game. MORE: NFL medical officer defends viability of season Thus, Super Bowl V in January 1971 was the first Super Bowl played for the NFL title. How did the NFL handle games played the week of Sept. 11, 2001? The Maroons had been controversially suspended by the league at the end of the 1925 NFL season for an unauthorized game against a non-NFL team, allowing the Cardinals to throw together two fairly easy matches (one against a team consisting partly of high school players, also against league rules) to pass Pottsville in the standings. Overtime games were not played during the regular season until 1974. The league began considering ties in its standings in 1972, counting them as half a win and half a loss, but this was not applied retroactively. Detroit Wolverines vs. New York Giants, November 11, 1928. “The old favorites were on the job every minute. In 1975, the league modified its 1970 playoff format by instituting a seeding system. 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In 1948, the Browns became the first professional football team to complete an entire season undefeated and untied — 24 years before the 1972 Miami Dolphins of the NFL would accomplish the task, but this feat is not recognized by NFL record books. In 1929 the Triangles franchise was sold and moved to Brooklyn, New York. Again, the home team for each playoff game was determined by a yearly divisional or conference rotation. Ironically, it was Pottsville's win in that game against the Notre Dame All-Stars that gave professional football legitimacy over college football. The league used a special 16-team playoff tournament for that year. The All-America Football Conference was created in June 1944 to compete against the NFL. Their biggest change was to make the forward pass legal, beginning the transformation of football into the modern game. The official source for NFL news, video highlights, fantasy football, game-day coverage, schedules, stats, scores and more. The 1955 and 1960 NFL championship games were played on Monday afternoons, Christmas having fallen on a Sunday in those years. The spectators at Triangle Park, “the biggest crowd that ever witnessed the opening of the professional grid season in this city,” glimpsed a shutout by the home team that fall day. The first two of these games were known as the AFL-NFL Championship Game, as the title Super Bowl was not chosen until 1968. Andrew Brandt, then an executive for the Green Bay Packers, explains the decisions that needed to be made in the wake of the tragedies. For the first thirteen seasons, the APFA/NFL did not hold a championship game, except in 1932, when a playoff game was held. Teams would also receive a replica trophy. Previously, the NFL disregarded any tie games played when they computed the standings, basing it on winning percentage with any ties thrown out and ignored. It was emphasized that this did not apply to the final championship game, which would crown co-champions in the event of a tie. The Dayton Triangles football team (1920-1929) played in the first game for what is now known as the National Football League (NFL). Andrew Brandt, then an executive for the Green Bay Packers, explains the decisions that needed to be made in the wake of the tragedies. Yes, this was how Favre completed his first NFL pass. As ESPN notes, this is the first event — live game action or otherwise — that the NFL has had to cancel because of the coronavirus in 2020. A century ago, the very first NFL game was played in Dayton. The AFL Championship games featured classics such as the 1962 double-overtime championship game between the Dallas Texans and the defending champion Houston Oilers. The NFL has also used quizzes to get peripheral sports fans and die-hard fans to buy team merchandise and season tickets, said Aaron Jones, the NFL's director of marketing science and strategy. The first professional football game, a matchup between the Dayton Triangles and the Columbus Panhandles, kicked off at Dayton's Triangle Park Oct. 3, 1920. The game was played on a modified 80-yard dirt field, and Chicago won 9–0, winning the league championship. This last occurred during the 1965 season, when the Green Bay Packers and Baltimore Colts tied for first place in the Western Conference at 10–3–1. There was a carnival-like American atmosphere Sunday at spanking new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, which hosted its first-ever NFL game between the Chicago Bears and the Oakland Raiders. The playoff format was expanded from a single championship game to a four-team tournament, with the four divisional champions participating. Get ready for a super-sized NFL wild-card weekend. The first game of what would become the National Football League, a matchup between the Dayton Triangles and the Columbus Panhandles, kicked off at Dayton’s Triangle Park on Oct. 3, 1920. Each player was paid $50. To determine the champion, the league, reportedly at the behest of George Preston Marshall, voted to hold the first official playoff game in Chicago at Wrigley Field. The schedule includes the matchups, date, time, and TV. That honor belongs to New York City’s Madison Square Garden. If there was a tie for first place within the conference, an extra playoff game decided who would go to the NFL Championship Game, with a coin toss deciding where the game would be played. How to Watch the First NFL Game of the 2020 Season The coronavirus pandemic may have prevented the NFL from having a preseason, but pro football's regular season kicks … The championship game was then held on its originally-scheduled date, January 2, 1966—the first time the NFL champion was crowned in January. Thus, there would be times when the pairing in that round would pit the first seed versus the third, and the second versus the fourth. Along with the three division winners in each conference, two wild card teams (one from each conference), the second-place finishers with the best records in each conference, were added to the tournament. Pivotal to this was approval by Congress of a law (PL 89-800) that would waive jeopardy to anti-trust statutes for the merged leagues. The following week Majkowski severely damaged the ligaments in his ankle. All ten of these consolation games were played in the Orange Bowl in Miami in January, the week after the NFL championship game. Even though the league outdrew the NFL in attendance, the continuing dominance of the Cleveland Browns led to the league's downfall. In the sortable table below, teams are ordered first by number of appearances, then by number of wins, and finally by year of first appearance. NFL football on Thanksgiving Day has become a tradition, one that continues this week with a slate of three holiday games. Kevin Rader will dress and play against the Browns, giving the Pine-Richland High School graduate his first NFL game appearance. Get the latest scores, as well as full coverage of the NFL from USA TODAY. The official source for NFL news, video highlights, fantasy football, game-day coverage, schedules, stats, scores and more. DAYTON DAILY NEWS ARCHIVE. Thus the third AFL-NFL matchup was dubbed "Super Bowl III" and the first two matches were retronamed as Super Bowls I and II. One month later on September 17, the league was renamed the American Professional Football Association, adding Buffalo and Rochester from the New York league, and Detroit, Hammond(a suburban Chicago squad), and se… 1 – Dates in the list denote the season, not necessarily the calendar year in which the championship game was played. The Triangles beat the Columbus Panhandles 14-0 on Oct. 3, 1920 in Dayton s Triangle Park. Does not include folded NFL teams with zero "Appearances/Top 2 Finishes." [8][9] The first playoff game requiring overtime was the 1958 NFL Championship Game. The exception is the Minnesota Vikings which went to three others and lost all of them. According to modern tie-breaking rules, Akron and Buffalo would be co-champions. For the 1960 through 1969 seasons, the NFL staged an additional postseason game called the "Playoff Bowl" (aka the "Bert Bell Benefit Bowl" or the "Runner-up Bowl"). Four thousand people paid $1.75 for admission, according to a 2005 Dayton Daily News story. (Inducted: 2008), Saturday is the 100th anniversary of the game, 8 things you should know about the Dayton Triangles, the team that started the NFL, Archdeacon: Centennial celebration of Dayton Triangles takes many forms. But “the Triangles do not need to rely on the passing game alone,” the story went on, “for they have backs who can circle ends and they have Louie Partlow, the demon plunger, who can puncture most any line with his terrific smashes.”. More significantly, the home teams in the playoffs were still decided by a yearly divisional rotation, not on regular-season records (excluding the wild-card teams, who would always play on the road). To stay fit, he ran through the woods bordering the Great Miami River leaping over roots and occasionally ramming his shoulder into a tree, a primitive and immovable form of blocking sled. The AFL on the other hand, raised its total franchise number to ten with the Miami Dolphins joining the Eastern Division in 1966 and the Cincinnati Bengals joining the Western Division in 1968. In 1920, the Akron Pros went undefeated, tying three games, but two teams that had won more games (and who had both tied Akron), the Buffalo All-Americans and Decatur Staleys, petitioned the league for a share of the title; both teams' petitions were denied, and Akron was awarded the first (and only) Brunswick-Balke Collender Cup. With the blessing of NFL president Joe Carr, the Bears and Spartans agreed to face each other the following Sunday in the league’s first-ever championship game. The site of the championship game during the first three was determined just as it was in the NFL—a divisional rotation. “But it was more than a victory which tickled the folks, Sunday. Sudden death overtime was finally approved for the NFL championship game in 1946[7] and has remained in effect ever since. 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