Tuesday 27 September 2011

Super Bowl champions

Super Bowl is an annual American football game that determines the champion of the National Football League (NFL). The contest is held in an American city that is chosen three to four years beforehand, usually in warm-weather or domed sites. Since 1971, the winner of the American Football Conference (AFC) Championship Game has faced the winner of the National Football Conference (NFC) Championship Game in the culmination of the NFL playoffs. Before the 1970 merger between the American Football League (AFL) and the National Football League (NFL), the two leagues met in a World Championship Game and Super Bowl III in 1969 was the first Super Bowl that carried the "Super Bowl" moniker at the time of the game. The NFC leads in Super Bowl wins with 24, while the AFC has won 21. Eighteen different franchises, including teams that relocated to another city, have won the Super Bowl. The NFL and AFL each won two World Championships.
The Pittsburgh Steelers have won the most Super Bowls with six championships (record 6–2), while both the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers have five wins each (Cowboys 5–3; 49ers a perfect 5–0). Dallas and Pittsburgh have the most Super Bowl appearances with eight, while the Buffalo Bills have the most consecutive appearances with four losses in a row from 1991 to 1994. The Denver Broncos and Minnesota Vikings have also lost a record four Super Bowls. Buffalo and Minnesota are both 0–4 and Denver is 2–4. The record for consecutive wins is two and is shared by seven franchises: the Green Bay Packers, the Miami Dolphins, the Steelers (the only team to accomplish this feat twice), the 49ers, the Cowboys, the Broncos, and the New England Patriots.



Super Bowl Championship


Numbers in parentheses in the table are Super Bowl appearances, as of the date of that Super Bowl and are used as follows:
Winning team and Losing team columns indicate the number of times that team has appeared in a Super Bowl.
Venue column indicates number of times that stadium has hosted a Super Bowl.
City column indicates number of times that that metropolitan area has hosted a Super Bowl.

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