Super Bowl History Facts

• The Super Bowl is the annual American football game that determines the champion of the National Football League.
• The game culminates a season that begins in the previous calendar year, and is the conclusion of the NFL playoffs.
• The winner receives the Vince Lombardi Trophy.
• The NFC/NFL leads the AFC/AFL with 29 wins to 27.
• A total of 20 franchises, including teams that have relocated to another city, have won the Super Bowl.
• The New England Patriots (6–5) and Pittsburgh Steelers (6–2) have won the most Super Bowls with six championships, while the Dallas Cowboys (5–3) and the San Francisco 49ers (5–2) have five wins.
• The New England Patriots have the most Super Bowl appearances with 11, while the Buffalo Bills (0–4) have the most consecutive appearances with four (all losses) from 1990 to 1993.
• The Miami Dolphins (1971–1973) and New England Patriots (2016–2018) are the only other teams to have at least three consecutive appearances.
• The record for consecutive wins is two and is shared by seven franchises: the Green Bay Packers (1966–1967), the Miami Dolphins (1972–1973), the Pittsburgh Steelers (1974–1975 and 1978–1979, the only team to accomplish this feat twice), the San Francisco 49ers (1988–1989), the Dallas Cowboys (1992–1993), the Denver Broncos (1997–1998), and the New England Patriots (2003–2004).
• Among those, Dallas (1992–1993, 1995) and New England (2001, 2003–2004) are the only teams to win three out of four consecutive Super Bowls.
• The Buffalo Bills have the most consecutive appearances with four from 1990 to 1993.
• The Miami Dolphins (1971–1973) and New England Patriots (2016–2018) are the only other teams to have at least three consecutive appearances.
• All three teams with three or more consecutive Super Bowl appearances are in the AFC East division.
• Including those three, 11 teams have at least two consecutive appearances.
• The Dallas Cowboys are the only team with three separate streaks (1970–1971, 1977–1978, and 1992–1993).
• The Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Steelers, Denver Broncos, and New England Patriots have each had two separate consecutive appearances.
• The Kansas City Chiefs are the most recent team to appear in consecutive Super Bowls playing in Super Bowl LIV and Super Bowl LV.
• The full listing of teams with consecutive appearances is below in order of first occurrence; winning games are in bold.
• In descending order of number of appearances and then years since their last appearance, they are:
• Four current teams have never reached the Super Bowl.

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