In 2002. This was because 9/11 made the NFL reschedule everything and now they just use the bye.
There are usually 2 weeks between the NFC & AFC Championship games and the Super Bowl. Starting in 2009 they are playing the Pro Bowl on the Sunday in between the Super Bowl and the Championship games.
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Super Bowl XLII will be the 18th NFL Championship game the New York Giants have played in which is the most of any NFL franchise. Super Bowl XLII will be their fourth Super Bowl and they played in 14 NFL championship games prior to the Super Bowl era.
Chicago bears From 1933, when the first NFL championship game was played, to 2008, when Super Bowl XLII was played, the team that has lost the most NFL championship games is the New York Giants who have lost 11 NFL championship games (pre Super Bowl) and 1 Super Bowl for a total of 12.
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Now that the Pro Bowl is played the week between the Conference Championship games and the Super Bowl, players on Super Bowl teams who make the Pro Bowl are considered Pro Bowlers and they do get paid.
6-12 ... 3-1 in Super Bowls and 3-11 in NFL championship games prior to the Super Bowl era.
"Super Bowl" was pretty much always an unofficial nickname for it, though the tickets for the first three games (1967, 1968, 1969) were printed as "World Championship Game".
Its a bowl series championship.
We won't know until after the Conference Championship Games in 2010!
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The first Super Bowl championship was the AFL-NFL World Championship Game played on January 15, 1967 between the Green Bay Packers (NFL) and Kansas City Chiefs (AFL). The Packers won 35-10. The annual championship was not officially called the Super Bowl until Super Bowl III in January, 1969, and in 1970 the merger of the AFL and NFL was completed. Beginning with Super Bowl V, the game is between the AFC and NFC Conference champions.