NFL Playoffs Tickets
The National Football League (NFL) has a Playoff structure that is designed to bring the two best teams in the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC) through into the Championship games called the Super Bowl. The modern NFL was created by the merger of the NFL and the American Football League that became the AFC, with the addition of some NFL teams to balance the two Conferences.
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Once the Wild Card Teams are determined they will travel to the Division winners with the two lowest wins in each Conference to play in the Wild Card Weekend. The Division winners with the two best records get a weekend off to rest and heal up. The winners of the Wild Card rounds in each Conference then face off in the Conference Championship.
The Championship game is played now on the last weekend of January. The NFC plays for the George Halas Trophy, since 1984, named for the long time owner of the NFC Chicago Bears, and a founder of the original NFL. The AFC plays for the Lamar Hunt Trophy, again since 1984 when these trophies were begun, who was a founder of the American Football League (AFL) and owner of the Kansas City Chiefs.
The NFC has only a slight edge in Super Bowl wins and there has not been a longstanding dominance of one Conference over another for any long period of time. The NFC and AFC has seen the results of the long stated goal of league parity of late as there has been a bubbling up of teams not usually seen in post season play that have even gone all the way to the Super Bowl.
With the creation of the Super Bowl and the extension of the NFL regular season the NFL Playoff structure has been modified over time. It begins the week following the end of the regular season with the Wild Card Games. The Wild Card teams are usually not finalized until the final week of the season due to the complexity of the calculation required with inter-divisional play and win/loss records. The four Wild Card teams (two in the NFC and two in the AFC) are usually middling teams with very close win/loss records but good inter-Division records.
