You rarely here any talk about a teams championships before the Super Bowl. The NFL has been around for over 85 years. Thats 85 different champions, and you only hear about the last 40. No other sport does this. They still count all the World Series, Stanley cup finals, and NBA Championship since those 3 leagues were formed. How many of you knew the Packers have one 12 championship. I wager not many, you only know of the 3 SBs. Green Bay is the only team to win 3 straight championships, but you don't hear about that. You only hear about no one has won three straight SBs.
For the 99% of people that Most NFL Championships: Green Bay Packers 12, Chicago Bears 9, New York Giants 6, Dallas Cowboys 5, San Francisco 49ers 5, Washington Redskins 5, Pittsburgh Steelers 5, Cleveland Browns 4, Detroit Lions 4. There are 22 champions right there that you never hear about.
No I'm not a Packers fan. They are just the best example.
2006-07-23 08:09:06 · 6 answers · asked by Jake W 3 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
I have always felt perturbed by this. They count the early era baseball which is completely different than today. You can't say that football was so different then that it doesn't count anymore. I guess the Super Bowl because such a spectacle that people just forget about what happened before and most people don't even know or remember that the first Super Bowl wasn't the NFL championship game, it was a game between the chaps of the AFL and the NFL. After the AFL-NFL merger, they just kept the name because it sounds good. It wasn't even an official name until the 1969 season.
2006-07-26 17:01:18 · answer #1 · answered by spudric13 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually your bringing up of the World Series is a prime example. The National League had been around for 25 years before they started pitting their champion against the newly formed American League champion in "The World's Series". The Baltimore Orioles won multiple titles in the 1880's and 1890's when that was the only "major league". Much can be said for the NFL. Only after the formation of the AFL in 1960, was there another "major league" football organization. Once those two leagues started pitting their champions against each other in 1967 did the "modern era" of football begin. Just as the modern era of baseball not begin until 1903.
P.S. There was no pre-WS American league champion. And how did I miss the Vikings winning a championship. When the hell did that happen.
2006-07-23 15:14:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't hear about them because the league has changed so much. Alot of sports talk about the "modern era" which is basically the NFL's Superbowl Era. You mention those Champions that were "NFL" Champions BUT what about the "AFL" Champions. You would have to include them as they won their league Championships BEFORE the two Leagues merged. It isn't THEIR fault that they weren't in the NFL to play for that league's Championship. That of course is another part of why you don't hear about the Champions prior to the Superbowl. It would get so confusing when there were more Champions then years in exsistance OF the league. Prior to the Merger(which was shortly after the World Championship Game of the two leagues was started) you proably did hear of all the prior NFL Champs. After the merger is started getting shortened to just the Superbowl Champs.
2006-07-23 09:50:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The NFL counts them as NFL champions, not undisputed champions. Their championships were considered disputed, and any champions from those eras when there wasn't one major, unified league are considered co-champions.
Very interesting that you bring up baseball. Baseball counts its World Series champions from the early years of the World Series because like football, baseball had disputed champions.
This day, baseball's 2 leagues are considered the best in the world, and there's little dispute if the winners of the World Series are the best privatley owned baseball club in the world.
MLB considers its pre-WS American, National and Federal league champions as co-national champions.
The NBA considers ABA championships as co-championships and so does the NHL with the WHL in its heyday with their championships.
But so far, my Vikings only have 1 NFL championship.
However, it's not considered a co-championship because the championship's dispute was settled in Super Bowl III :(
2006-07-23 11:01:16 · answer #4 · answered by enigma_frozen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because no one has won 3 straight super bowls,it was the NFL championship game
2006-07-23 17:57:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-07-23 08:21:07 · answer #6 · answered by melissa de los angeles sandino 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋