There are four NFL teams that have never appeared in a Super Bowl: the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Houston Texans, though both the Browns (1950, 1954, 1955, 1964) and Lions (1935, 1952, 1953, 1957) had won NFL Championship Games prior to the creation of the Super Bowl in the 1966 season. In 2007, the New England Patriots went 16-0 in the NFL regular season and headed to Super Bowl XLII with an 18-0 record before losing to the New York Giants 17-14. The last team in a new season to lose a game has won the Super Bowl twelve times. Before the Super Bowl era, the last undefeated team won fourteen Championship games, four of which were in the AFL. Before playoffs began in the 1933 season, the last undefeated team earned the NFL championship seven times by having the highest winning percentage More Super Bowl Pages. Super Bowl Leaders; Super Bowl Standings; Super Bowl History + indicates Hall of Fame; Table; Date SB AFC Pts NFC Pts MVP Stadium City State The 1972 Miami Dolphins remain the only undefeated Super Bowl champion in history, going a perfect 14-0 in the regular season before winning their three games in the NFL Playoffs. View a comprehensive list of every single NFL Super Bowl champion from 1967 to present on ESPN. Includes the finals opponent, site of the game and the final result. The New York Giants upset a Patriots team that was favored by 12.5-points in Super Bowl XLII, preventing New England from becoming the second team in history to finish undefeated. The Super Bowl is the annual American football game that decides the champion of the National Football League (NFL). The game ends the regular season and is the best game in the NFL playoffs . Super Bowl championship (1966–present) A member of the undefeated 1972 Dolphins Super Bowl team and decorated college wide receiver has died at age 81. Howard Twilley, who caught a 28-yard touchdown pass in Miami’s 14-7 victory over Super Bowl champions by year. 1967 Super Bowl (1): Green Bay Packers 35, Kansas City Chiefs 10 1968 Super Bowl (2): Green Bay Packers 33, Oakland Raiders 14 1969 Super Bowl (3): New York Jets 16 The 1972 Dolphins consisted mostly of the same core of players that it possessed from 1970 through 1974 and was the most dominant NFL team during that stretch. In those five seasons, the Dolphins reached the playoffs all five years, won three AFC Championships, two Super Bowls and went undefeated and untied while winning the Super Bowl in 1972. Won Conference Championship 21-17 vs. Pittsburgh Steelers Won Super Bowl 14-7 vs. Washington Redskins. Offensive Coordinator: Howard Schnellenberger. Defensive Coordinator: Bill Arnsparger. Other Notable Asst.: Monte Clark (Offensive Line) and Mike Scarry (Defensive Line) Stadium: Orange Bowl. Founder/Principal Owner: Joe Robbie The 1972 Miami Dolphins remain the only undefeated Super Bowl champion in history, going a perfect 14-0 in the regular season before winning their three games in the NFL Playoffs. The two-time Super Bowl champion passed away on Wednesday. Former Miami Dolphins player Howard Twilley is seen on the field at halftime as the 1972 Miami Dolphins undefeated team is honored at The NFL's final undefeated team hasn't won the Super Bowl in nearly 20 years. The craziest game of the 2006 postseason definitely came in the AFC Championship, a game where the Colts beat the A look back at Super Bowl VII between Washington and the Miami Dolphins at the Coliseum on Jan. 14, 1973: 17 little-known facts about the NFL's only unbeaten Super Bowl champions. Shula's invincible Dolphins would go on to win the Super Bowl that year with an undefeated 17-0 record. It had never been achieved before and - as the National Football League enters its 100th Manning, 44, a two-time Super Bowl champion and MVP, obviously has a case based on his postseason heroics and historic place in some of the NFL’s biggest moments. He and the Giants knocked A member of the undefeated 1972 Dolphins Super Bowl team and decorated college wide receiver has died at age 81. Howard Twilley, who caught a 28-yard touchdown pass in Miami’s 14-7 victory over The Dolphins vanquished the Redskins by the score of 14–7, winning their first Super Bowl, and became the first and still the only team in modern NFL history to complete a perfect undefeated season. [4] They also remain the only Super Bowl champion to win despite having been shut out in the second half of the game.
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