The Colts defeated the Giants in the NFL's first sudden-death overtime in an NFL Championship Game on December 28. Alan Ameche(FB) scored on a one-yard touchdown run after 8:15 of overtime. The televised game is generally looked upon as the one that brought the NFL to its first great national attention as we know it today.
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Through Super Bowl XLVI, there has been only one NFL championship game to go into overtime. That was in 1958 when the Baltimore Colts defeated the New York Giants 23-17.
Since then there have been many wild card, division, and conference championship playoff games that went to overtime but only one NFL championship game.
The year was 1974. The first regular season OT game was September 22, 1974 between Pittsburgh and Denver. Ironically, the game ended in a 35-35 tie. That's correct. However, the first overtime game in the NFL occurred during the 1958 NFL Championship Game between the Colts and Giants. The teams were tied at the end of regulation, and since a winner had to be declared, a sudden-death period was added. The Colts won, 23-17, on a 1-yard touchdown run by Alan Ameche. But as the first answer correctly states, overtime didn't become a part of the regular season until 1974.
These days there is no difference. Once upon a time there was. The NFL championship was awarded to the winner of the league's championship game prior to 1969. Before the merger of the AFL and NFL in 1970, the leagues agreed to play an annual AFL-NFL World Championship Game (later rechristened the Superbowl).
== == The Eagles last won an NFL championship in 1960, defeating the Green Bay Packers, 17-13, in the NFL championship game.
It could be "NFC" championship, or it could be the "Superbowl" depending on your meaning.
Today's Superbowl was fomerly known as the AFL-NFL World Championship Game .