This Sunday marks the penultimate weekend of NFL game action, the NFC and AFC Championship games. To mark the occasion here is a gallery of game program covers from all the previous times the four title contenders — the Green Bay Packers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Kansas City Chiefs, and Buffalo Bills — have met before in the postseason.
The Green Bay Packers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers meet at Lambeau Field this Sunday for the NFC Championship. It is just the second postseason game between the teams. Here is the program from that game, a 21-7 win for the Pack at Lambeau in the Divisional round:
The AFC Championship features the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and the Buffalo Bills. The Bills not only snapped a two-plus decade playoff win drought this season but are marking their return to the conference title game since 1993, the end of their remarkable ’90s postseason run.
These two teams have a playoff history that goes back to the American Football League and have met in the playoffs three times before. First up is the 1966 AFL Championship, which the Chiefs won to advance to Super Bowl I.
Fast forward a few decades and the Chiefs and Bills met in the postseason twice in three seasons. The first was in the 1991 Divisional round, which was a 37-14 Buffalo win at Rich Stadium.
Two years later the teams met in the AFC Championship, which was the aforementioned previous title game appearance for Buffalo. They won again, 30-13.
