Despite their defensive flaws, the Dolphins ' powerful offense led the NFL in scoring ( 513 points ) and total yards gained ( 7, 064 ), and helped the team reach an AFC best 14-2 regular season record.

The Dolphins gained 405 yards of total offense in their 31-10 playoff win over the Seattle Seahawks, and over 500 yards as they defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers, 45-28, in the AFC Championship Game.

With this win, they gained Iran's final and second spot in the AFC Champions League 2007.

Sydney also remain the only A-League team ever to win the OFC Champions League as since 2006 A-League teams have gained qualification to the AFC Champions League instead, in which Sydney has also competed.

At the end of World War II with league football returning back to normality, Llanelli AFC returned to the 1st Division of the Welsh League for 1945 – 46 season and continued in this vain until the 1950 season when with the boom of returning fixtures to a nation starved of highly charged competitive football Llanelli AFC once again gained a place in the prestigious Southern League, together with an influx of Scottish League footballers including one John ( Jock ) Stein who was to find fame with Glasgow Celtic as a player and manager and a respected manager of both Leeds United and the Scottish National team.

Dierdorf quickly moved to CBS, who had just gained rights to air AFC football matchups, and was placed on the network's number 2 team with play-by-play man Verne Lundquist, replacing Randy Cross who was moved to The NFL Today.

He led the AFC with a career-high 1, 395 yards gained on 80 receptions in 1984, when he was named the NFL Comeback Player of the Year.

The men's team has gained limited success at the sport, with the national team having competed at eight AFC Asian Cup competitions, and one FIFA World Cup, in 1982.

" I can't say how much it affected us, because we did make it to the AFC championship game ," said Johnson on the loss of fellow lineman Dean.

Manning finished the season with, the first time he had thrown for under 4, 000 yards since his rookie season of 1998, largely because Manning sat out much of the final two games with the top AFC seed clinched.

In the end Sunderland AFC proved too much of an adversary.

The team clinched its first playoff berth during the 2011 season as champions of the AFC South.

Baltimore's post NFL-AFL merger passage to the AFC saw them thrust into a new environment with little in common with its fellow divisional teams, the Jets, Miami Dolphins, Buffalo Bills, and Boston Patriots.

This realignment restored the AFC West to its initial post-merger roster of original AFL teams Denver, San Diego, Kansas City, and Oakland.

This conference and its counterpart, the American Football Conference ( AFC ), currently contain 16 teams each, making up the 32 teams of the NFL.

The AFC was never able to get funding for its own public opinion poll.

The AFC was still in its infancy and could provide enough aircrews and ground staff for only half a flight: the unit therefore became known as the Mesopotamian Half-Flight, or Australian Half-Flight and Captain Henry Petre was appointed commander.

In 1993, Montana was traded to the Kansas City Chiefs and led the franchise to its first AFC Championship Game in January 1994.

Bridgend Town AFC will from 2009 will play at The Brewery Field ( The Football Club purchased The Brewery Field in 2009 ) as the club sold its ground at Coychurch Road ground due to works in conjunction with the new ASDA store.

In 1998, during halftime of the AFC Championship game, NBC showed a replay from its original broadcast.

The largest junior football club in Southport, Birkdale United AFC, played a crucial part in the footballing education of famous Premiership footballers such as Jack Rodwell, Dominic Matteo, Shaun Teale and Paul Dalglish on their way, still has its home in the village and boasts teams for boys from the age of 6 and girls from the age of 7 through to open age teams.

On January 8, 2012, Sports Authority Field at Mile High hosted its third NFL Playoff game, an AFC Wild Card Weekend match against the Pittsburgh Steelers ( now known as the 3: 16 game ).

The club was able to demonstrate its worth when it captured the league title in the 2002 – 03 season of the IPL, and qualified for the AFC Champions League tournament.

The NFL lists the old AFL / NFL championship games with " new " AFC / NFC championship games in its record books.

With Brunell starting, the Jaguars won an AFC Central Division title and became the first NFL expansion team to make the playoffs three times in its first four seasons of play.

Its current owners and tenants for the vast majority of its history are Barrow AFC, who have played at the ground since 1909.

In 2007, this club attended the AFC Champions League, and made important success, as the first Japanese club for qualifying its group stage, before Urawa Red Diamonds.

The BMA supports armed forces doctors through its Armed Forces Committee ( AFC ) which represents clinicians in all parts of the armed forces, whether they are deployed to war zones, acting as reservists or civilian doctors employed by the Ministry of Defence.

AFC was forced to sell off its Seattle's Best Coffee division to Starbucks and in 2004 sold its international division and Cinnabon to FOCUS Brands, Inc.

In late 2004, AFC sold off its Church's Chicken division to Arcapita ( formerly Crescent Capital Investments ), a venture-capital firm that also is the parent of Caribou Coffee.

The Sunderland AFC hour from 11 am was its most popular item.

The Associated Press named Marvin Lewis its 2009 coach of the year following a 10-6 regular season and another AFC North division championship.

The alkaline fuel cell ( AFC ), also known as the Bacon fuel cell after its British inventor, is one of the most developed fuel cell technologies.

FC Seoul's appearance in the AFC Champions League was its first since the Asian Club Championship Era.

The Dolphins were successful in the early 1970's, becoming the first team to advance to the AFC Championship for three consecutive seasons.

Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith MC, AFC ( 9 February 1897 – 8 November 1935 ), often called by his nickname Smithy, was an early Australian aviator.

Tyco ’ s aggressive acquisition strategy continued into the early 2000s, with the purchases of General Surgical Innovations, Siemens Electrochemical Components, AFC Cable and Praegitzer.

The early years of Mossley AFC were spent in the Ashton & District League culminating in a superb season in 1914 – 15 when Mossley won the League, Manchester Junior Cup and the Lady Aitken Cup, progressing to the South East Lancashire League in 1915, the Manchester Amateur League in 1916, the Lancashire Combination in 1918 and then were founder members of the Cheshire County League in 1919, finishing runners up in the first season in both League and League Cup and returning to win the League Cup the following season beating Sandbach Ramblers in the final.

The conferences would then begin to annually alternate between the early and late games, with the first game during this 2002-03 season being the NFC title game and the second the AFC title game.

** In the season, the Raiders ' Week 14 game at the Green Bay Packers was flexed from the early time slot to the late-afternoon time slot due to the fact that Green Bay was undefeated at the time and Oakland was in first place in the AFC West heading in to the matchup, at the same time that the 49ers played at the Arizona Cardinals.

By scheduling a late game during the same week that the other team has an early game or a bye week, that leaves three weeks ( four in years when the NFC West and AFC West play each other ) where both Bay Area teams cannot be scheduled simultaneously in the late time slot ( unless they're playing each other head-to-head ).

The early noughties were quiet times for Sutton, although the club is notable as the first-ever opponent of AFC Wimbledon, defeating the Dons 4 – 0 in a pre-season friendly in July 2002 in front of 4657 at the Borough Sports Ground.