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16-427: Professional Football Championship may refer to: Professional American football championship games Professional Football Championship (South Korea) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Professional Football Championship . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

32-762: A nod to the Detroit Tigers , but also wanted to signal his goal of building a team that would be the "king of the NFL." The result of the 1932 NFL Playoff Game to determine the NFL champion between the Chicago Bears and the Portsmouth Spartans counted in the standings. Prior to the 1972 season , ties did not count in the NFL standings. Therefore, the Bears (6–1–6) and the Spartans (6–1–4) were considered to be tied atop

48-541: A population of under 38,000. During the team's first year in the league , the Spartans compiled a record of 5–6–3, tying for seventh place in the eleven-team league in 1930 . Early highlights as the Portsmouth Spartans include the "iron man" game against Green Bay in 1932 . In that game, Spartans coach Potsy Clark refused to make even a single substitution against the defending NFL champion Packers. Portsmouth won 19–0 and used only 11 players all game. At

64-546: A touchdown pass from Bronko Nagurski to Red Grange . The resulting interest led to the establishment of Eastern and Western conferences and a regular championship game beginning in 1933 . During their final three years in Portsmouth, the Spartans posted a record of 23 wins, 9 losses, and 4 ties — a .718 winning percentage that was surpassed only by the Chicago Bears in the nine-team National League. Despite their success on

80-558: The Portsmouth Spartans , who were defeated in the 1932 Game, finished third as the Game counted in the season standings. All games are listed under the year in which the majority of regular season games were played: especially since the 1960s, many championship games have been played in the January or, since 2002, February of the following year (i.e. the Championship Game of the 2011 NFL season

96-523: The Pottsville Maroons claimed the championship was theirs, not the Chicago Cardinals '. The APFA also had no official Championship Games before it changed its name to the NFL in 1922. Boston/ Washington Redskins owner George Preston Marshall , who credited with significant innovations by the NFL, convinced the NFL in 1933 to play a Championship Game between the two Division winners following

112-754: The 1910s (the NYPFL held an actual championship game in 1919). In 1920, teams from the Ohio League and New York Pro Football League, along with other midwestern teams, formalized into the American Professional Football Association (APFA), and the league was later renamed the National Football League (NFL). The NFL conducted play for thirteen years before creating a "Championship Game" : from 1920 through 1932, league "champions" were determined by won-loss record with ties excluded, but

128-555: The construction of a football stadium that was comparable to those in neighboring communities along the Ohio River . That approval prompted the National Football League to grant the city a franchise on July 12, 1930. The Spartans played their first NFL game at Universal Stadium on September 14. With fewer than 43,000 residents in 1930, Portsmouth became the NFL's second smallest city, ahead of only Green Bay , which had

144-450: The end of the 1932 season, the Spartans were tied for first place in the league with the Chicago Bears . That prompted what in retrospect became known as the first NFL playoff game . Blizzard conditions in Chicago meant the game was moved from Wrigley Field 's outdoor field to the indoor field at Chicago Stadium , which allowed for only an 80-yard field. The game was won 9–0 by the Bears, on

160-482: The gridiron, the Spartans were fighting to survive off the field. The team was in so much debt that the players received shares in the team in lieu of their salaries. In 1934, a group led by George A. Richards , the owner of Detroit radio station WJR , was announced as having bought the Spartans and moved them to Detroit for the 1934 season . Richards renamed the team the Detroit Lions . He not only wanted to offer

176-498: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Professional_Football_Championship&oldid=703005909 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Professional American football championship games Prior to 1920, no national professional football league existed, and play

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192-520: The schedules and rules were so ill-defined that conflicts exist to this day over who the actual champions were: some teams played more games than others, while some played against college or semi-pro teams, some played after the season was over, and some stopped play before a season was over. For example, in 1921, the Buffalo All-Americans disputed the Chicago Staleys ' title, and in 1925,

208-462: The success of the 1932 Playoff Game . Thus, 1933 was the year of the first national professional football Championship Game in the United States. See National Football League championships : note that game scores marked with a † (1921 and 1932) were de facto Championship Games, as these were the deciding games in determining a Championship, and also the last game played in that season - further,

224-433: Was Universal Stadium, known today as Spartan Municipal Stadium . The team was sold to a new ownership group in 1934 and relocated to Detroit, where they were relaunched as the Detroit Lions — a team which remains part of the NFL today. The Spartans formed in 1928 when the team began importing players from defunct independent professional and semi-professional teams. The following year, Portsmouth residents agreed to fund

240-556: Was played in February 2012, but is listed here under 2011). Portsmouth Spartans The Portsmouth Spartans were a professional American football team that played in Portsmouth, Ohio from their founding in 1928 to their relocation to Detroit in 1934 . Originally drawing players from defunct independent professional and semi-professional teams, they joined the fledgling National Football League (NFL) in 1930 . Their home stadium

256-634: Was scattered across semi-pro and professional leagues in the upper midwest. The first efforts at pro football championships were the World Series of Professional Football , featuring teams from and around New York City and the 1902 "National" Football League in Pennsylvania; two of the three "N"FL teams participated as one team in the World Series of Pro Football. The Ohio League and New York Pro Football League were two prominent regional associations in

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