afc has won more super bowls than nfc.
afc has won more super bowls than nfc.
who has won more super bowls afc or nfc?
afc
at the end of the 1966 season, the super bowl began to be played between the afl champion and the nfl champion. after the afl/nfl merger in 1970, the super bowl continued to be played between the afc champion and the nfc champion. the afl champion lost the first two super bowls. the 1968 afl champion new york jets with joe namath at quarterback became the first afl team to win the super bowl. starting with that super bowl, the afl or afc champion won 11 out of 13 super bowls. however, the afc champion lost 13 consecutive super bowls, from the 1984 afc champion miami dolphins through the 1996 afc champion new england patriots. overall, the afl or afc champion has won 26 of the 53 super bowls played through the end of the 2018 season.
list of afc champions
by winning the 1967 nfl championship game, the packers achieved a "three-peat" (three consecutive league championships) for only the second time in franchise history and the first time since they were named league champions following the 1929–31 seasons. to this day, no other nfl team has matched or surpassed this record. the packers' back-to-back wins in the first two super bowls remains a super bowl record, and has since been tied seven times by six other franchises: the miami dolphins won super bowls vii and viii following the 1972 and 1973 seasons, the pittsburgh steelers won super bowls ix and x following the 1974 and 1975 seasons as well as super bowls xiii and xiv following the 1978 and 1979 seasons and remain, to date, the only team to win back-to-back super bowl titles more than once, the san francisco 49ers won super bowls xxiii and xxiv following the 1988 and 1989 seasons, the dallas cowboys won super bowls xxvii and xxviii following the 1992 and 1993 seasons, the denver broncos won super bowls xxxii and xxxiii following the 1997 and 1998 seasons, and most recently, the new england patriots won super bowls xxxviii and xxxix following the 2003 and 2004 seasons.
history of the green bay packers