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Outside of the 1985 Bears and 1996 Packers, it was basically the 49ers or “insert NFC East flavor of the month team here” that was bringing home Lombardi trophies
The NFC Central was a carousel below Chicago for years
The NFC West was the definition of predictable with San Francisco clinching by December.
The mighty NFC East did plenty of heavy lifting, but even those teams annually got 2 free wins against the Cardinals which basically inflated their records
Only twice did the NFC Championship not feature SF or the NFCE (Bears/Rams 85, Panthers/Packers 96)
How great WAS the NFC in those years? Was it truly stacked or just a handful of teams carrying the load?