What the difference between NFC and AFC teams in the NFL? What does the nfc and afc mean?

Question

Im in the uk so im a bit iffy on this!

So is it like what we have in the UK with football like the premiership league and the other divisions like smaller local/inner city teams?

Answer 1

American football conference and National football conference
It is just the different zoning or regions that the team are in

Answer 2

These are the two different conferences of the NFL. NFC (National Football Conference) and AFC (American Football Conference) are the two conferences of the NFL. There is 16 teams in both conference. When the playoffs come around, there are four teams from each conference that play in the playoffs, each from one of the four divisions that make up each conference, and then the best four teams, two from each conference and aren't all ready in the playoffs, are selected to play in the playoffs as wild cards. Two teams from each conference don't play each other in the playoffs except for the Super Bowl (which has the best team from each conference). During the regular season teams from each conference can play each other, the only real reason for the seperation of the conferences is for playoff perposes. Also back in time there was only the NFC(back then NFL) and then they created the AFL(now AFC) which was played in the summer becuase people wanted to have more teams that played in the NFL, but the NFL didn't want to. The AFL became a huge hit and AFL recruiters would try to get huge upcomers from college to play in the AFL, which alot did. After a while the AFL became so big that the NFL decided to adapt the AFL and rename it NFC and AFC but the whole league would be called NFL. More teams have since then joined the NFL, a few are Panthers, Texans, and Jaguars. Also the Super Bowl was created when the two leagues joined together. The person who created the name for the Super Bowl said it as a joke and wasn't being serious, but it stuck. He just recently passed away, and ESPN did a special on him and talked about the AFL and NFL (this is how I know all of this).

Answer 3

NFL-National Football League

It's broken up into two leagues, then into four divisions with four teams in each division. This is done so that you can arrange a playoff game. It seems as if the AFC can play a better game, BUT, there is a lot of talent in the NFC also. But there usually a NFC team will be beat by the AFC team.

AFC-American Football Conference
NFC-National Football Conference

Answer 4

NFC stands for National Football Conference. This is composed of 13 teams that were in the NFL (the league started in 1920) prior to the 1970 NFL-AFL merger, as well as three post-merger expansion teams (Carolina, Seattle and Tampa Bay).

AFC is the American Football Conference, and consists of all ten teams from the aforementioned AFL (this league started in 1960), three NFL teams that switched conferences in the merger (Cleveland, Indianapolis, and Pittsburgh), and three more post-merger expansion teams (Baltimore, Houston, and Jacksonville).

Of late, it seems that AFC teams have had a monopoly on talent compared to the NFC, which explains in part why the last 4 Super Bowls - and 8 of the last 10 - were won by AFC teams. I should tell you that this dominance is cyclical: before the AFC's recent run, the NFC won 13 straight Super Bowls.

Answer 5

The difference between the NFC and the AFC teams in the NFL is that they belong to a set of guidelines that don't allow a meeting between each other during the play-offs; further, the qualification for the play offs is independant of each other, as well.
AFC=American Football Conference
NFC=National Football Conference

Answer 6

National Football Conference
American Football Conference

right now the AFC is to strong because they are 7 to 9 teams deep that are real good while in the NFC there are maybe 5 good teams who dont really live up to their talent and potential

Answer 7

The NFC means National Football Conference and the AFL means American Football Conference. They derive from the Days of the AFL(American Football League) when there was a rivalry between the two leagues before the merger.

Answer 8

NFC= National football Conference
AFC=American football Conference

There are teams that are divided into two leauges. each year after a season the winning team off the NFC and AFC go to the championship. Then after the championship the two conferences play each other in a game called the Pro Bowl.

Answer 9

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Back when there was an AFL (1960-69) when it merged it became the AFC.
Three old time NFL teams moved to the AFC to balance it out. (Steelers, Colts, and Browns.)

Then with expansion it became less and less relevant. Now, after about 40 years (OK, 38:)) it is only so jerkazoids like the Mara family can claim Dallas is in the East..

And before some moron says it preserves rivalries, if you need to play them often, it ain't a rivalry. If the Redskins played the Cowboys once every three years, do the fans hate each other less?

Answer 10

NFC = National Football Conference

AFC = American Football Conference

As I understand it, the AFC represents the former AFL teams since the merger combining the two leagues into the modern day NFL.

Answer 11

back in the 1960's the NFL merged with the AFL, and the teams that use to be in the AFL that joined the NFL became part of the American Football Conference (AFC) while the NFL teams played as part of the National Football Conference (NFC), except for the Steelers and some other team I can't remember right now who were NFL teams but joined the AFC to balance out the playing schedules.