A National Football Conference is one of them conferences of the National Football League. A Conference was created for the 1970 NFL year. A NFC experienced Xiii teams inside 1970. When of 2003, there are Sixteen teams.

A NFC presently consists of Xvi teams, organized into tetrad divisions (Northward, South, East, & West) of iv teams both. Apiece team plays a more teams in their section twice (house & away) during the regular season in addition to 10 other games/teams assigned to their schedule by the NFL in the April before. Ii one games come assigned on the basis of the teams' final record in the last year. A left over Ogdoad games come split between a roll of 2 more NFL divisions. This assignment shifts every season. E.g., in the 2005 regular year, both team in the NFC East will play a game to every one against each team within two a AFC West and the NFC West. Therein way section competition consists of most common opponents, using a exception of the Deuce games assigned on the nature and severity of the both team's prior year record.

At the prevent of every football year, a series of playoff games involving a top sixer teams in the NFC come played, consisting of the foursome section champions by place standing & the top deuce remaining not section prizewinning teams ("wildcards") by record. Them teams odd play in a NFC Championship game by using a winner getting the George Halas Trophy. A NFC Champion plays a AFC Champion in the Super Bowl.