Which NFL Team Has the Most Championships and Super Bowls?
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A look at which NFL team has the most championships and Super Bowls.
NFL Championships
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league. The NFL was founded in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (APFA) before renaming itself the National Football League for the 1922 season. As of 2020, there have been 52 NFL seasons, with Super Bowl LIV being the most recent. The Green Bay Packers hold the most NFL championships with 13 total, while the New England Patriots have the most Super Bowl wins with six.
Green Bay Packers
The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league’s National Football Conference (NFC) North division. It is the third-oldest franchise in the NFL, dating back to 1919, and is the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team based in the United States. Home games have been played at Lambeau Field since 1957.
The Packers are the last of the “small town teams” which were common in the NFL during the league’s early days of 1925 and 1926. Founded independently by George Whitney Calhoun and Curly Lambeau, they joined the NFL as it was then expanding into small markets across the United States. The Packers have won 13 league championships (including nine NFL Championships and four Super Bowls), more than any other team, with nine pre-Super Bowl NFL titles and four Super Bowl victories. They won three straight NFL titles from 1929 to 1931 and earned the first two Super Bowls in 1967 and 1968.
New York Giants
The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league’s National Football Conference (NFC) East division. The team plays its home games at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, which it shares with the New York Jets in a unique arrangement. The Giants hold their summer training camp at the Quest Diagnostics Training Center at the Meadowlands Sports Complex.
The Giants were one of five teams that joined the NFL in 1925, and is one of only two teams from that division still existing, along with the Chicago Bears. The team has won four NFL championships (1927, 1934, 1938, 1956), including two Super Bowl victories (1987, 1991), and has had 19 members inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and 13 retired from their jersey numbers.
Chicago Bears
The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the National Football League (NFL) as part of the NFC North division. The Bears compete in the NFL as a member club of the league’s National Football Conference (NFC) North division. The Bears have won nine NFL Championships, including one Super Bowl, and hold the NFL record for the most enshrinees in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the most retired jersey numbers. They have also recorded more victories than any other NFL franchise.
Super Bowls
The New England Patriots have the most Super Bowl appearances with eleven and the most Super Bowl wins with seven.
Pittsburgh Steelers
The Pittsburgh Steelers have the most championships and the most Super Bowl wins of any team in the National Football League (NFL). The Steelers have won seven NFL Championships, six Super Bowls, and have appeared in eight other Super Bowls. The team has also won more conference championships (19) and divisional championships (24) than any other team in NFL history.
New England Patriots
The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area. The Patriots compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league’s American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The team plays its home games at Gillette Stadium in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts, which is located 28 miles (45 km) southwest of downtown Boston.
The Patriots are also headquartered at Gillette Stadium. An original member of the American Football League (AFL), the Patriots joined the NFL in the AFL–NFL merger in 1970. The team changed its name from the original Boston Patriots after relocating to Foxborough in 1971. The Patriots played their home games at Foxboro Stadium from 1971 to 2001, then moved to Gillette Stadium at the start of the 2002 season.
The Patriots have appeared in ten Super Bowls in franchise history, winning seven of them, most recently Super Bowl LIII in 2018. They have also played in and won eight AFC Championship Games, most recently meeting and defeating the Kansas City Chiefs 37–31 in overtime during 2019 to appear in their third-straight and eleventh overall conference championship game. This was also their record-setting sixth consecutive AFC East division title, which they secured with a 24–17 win over the Buffalo Bills on December 21, 2019. ThePatriots’ dynasty beganwith their first Super Bowl championship of XXI, and culminated with three consecutive titles between 2001 and 2003; this included appearances an additional four times since then as well having a chance to repeat again in 2007, 2011, 2016 and 2017 but falling short each time for five Lombardi Trophies overall since that point—tying them with Pittsburgh for second place behind only Green Bay’s NFL record 13 titles over that same timespan despite not winning any championships prior to XXXVI or after LIII while Pittsburgh won 2 during that same timeframe as wellexceeding New England’s total numberof division titles won during that 25 year dynasty span with 10.(Citations needed: mention number of Championships/superbowls New England has won? In what year did their dynasty begin?)
San Francisco 49ers
The San Francisco 49ers have won 5 Super Bowls throughout their time in the NFL. They have also appeared in a total of 8 Super Bowls, which is tied for the 2nd most appearances in the big game.
