NFC Championship Tickets

The game that decides who will represent the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League's (NFL) Super Bowl each year is called the NFC Championship. Held each year, now due to the increased regular season schedule, on the last weekend of January the game, since 1984, also awards winner the George Halas Trophy, the long time owner of the NFC Chicago Bears football franchise.

Teams have risen and fallen over the years like dynasties and it has only been comparatively recently that teams other than the Dallas Cowboys, San Francisco 49'ers or Green Bay Packers have not been in the Championship game. Now the NFL seems to be closer to the parity that was the goal of so much of the realignments and rule changes since the merger and the NFC has many teams that have a real shot at the NFC Championship game.

The NFC Championship game sees the teams who survive the Wild Card Games and then the Division Championship games meeting to send the survivor to the Super Bowl two weeks later. The Wild Card Game is between the lowest of the Division winners and Wild card teams. The winners of those games meet the two highest Division winners in the Division Championship. It is a hard thing for a Wild Card team to make it through to the Championship game. The Wild Card has to play more games and stay healthy enough to beat the more rested team with the better winning record.

The game's history goes back to the pre-merger NFL days when the game was the league championship. Since 1970 and the newly merged NFL the game was a conference championship. The NFC teams currently hold a slight advantage in Super Bowl wins and this might be because some perceive the NFC to be a tougher Division. Getting past some of the perennially tougher teams like the Dallas Cowboys, NY Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles or the resurgent Green Bay Packers or Minnesota Vikings and now the New Orleans Saints may prove to be a tougher challenge for some teams that the ultimate Super Bowl Game itself.