Analyzing NFL News Article

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AFC Championship Game, the Denver Broncos will host the New England Patriots, and these two will be meeting for the second time in a period of three years. This is bound to be a major tie. What is at stake is huge with the winner of the NFL game progressing on to Super Bowl 50 (Orr, 2016). Amongst the teams that have battled it out in at least eight conference championship matchups from the time of the merger, it is the Broncos that have a better record compared to the Patriots. The Broncos have seven wins and two losses while the Patriots have eight wins and three losses.

However, statistics indicate that the Patriots are the only second team since the conception of the Super Bowl to make it to five consecutive conference championships. The other team was Raiders, between the years 1973 and 1977, who only managed one title during that period. The Patriots are also presently stuck at one and Sunday offers an opportunity to make history and break the record (Wagner-McGough, 2016).

The New England Patriots have thus far journeyed to eight Super Bowls, the highest-tied number of appearances in the history of the NFL. On the other hand, the Broncos have journeyed to seven Super Bowls. This makes it an all the more interesting matchup for the history books.
If the Patriots win, they overcome the Cowboys and the Steelers to make it the highest number of Super Bowl visits. If Broncos so win, on the other hand, they join these three teams for first place to make it a four-way tie for highest Super Bowl appearances.

The New England Patriots will be Belichick, who including this coming Sunday's match, will have coached fourteen conference championship games in the whooping past thirty seasons. This upcoming match will be his 10th conference championship while coaching the Patriots. It is also keen to point out that he acted as an assistant coach for other NFL teams in four other games.

In all of his games, Bill Belichick has nine wins and four losses, with two of these losses coming against the Broncos in Denver. Taking these statistics into account, as a head coach, he has six wins and three losses. Belichick also has other remarkable playoff records, including the fact that he has six super bowl appearances. This is the highest of all time, and he is tied with Don Shula. He also has four super bowl wins.

This is the highest of all time, and he is tied with Chuck Noll. Significantly, Belichick holds the highest all time wins with 23 wins. On the other end, the Denver….....

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