National Football League Capitol Division
| Conference | National Football Conference |
|---|---|
| League | National Football League |
| Sport | American football |
| Founded | 1967 (as the NFL Eastern Conference Capitol Division) |
| Teams | |
| No. of teams | 4 |
| Championships | |
| Most recent NFC East champion(s) | Dallas Cowboys |
| Most NFC East titles | Dallas Cowboys (22 titles) |
The NFC East is a division of the National Football League (NFL)'s National Football Conference (NFC). It currently has four members: the Philadelphia Eagles, the New York Giants, the Dallas Cowboys, and the Washington Redskins.
The division was formed in 1967 as the National Football League Capitol Division, keeping with the theme of having all of the league's divisions starting with the letter "C." The division was so named because it was centered on the capital of the United States, Washington, D.C. In 1967 and 1969 the teams in the NFL Capitol Division were Dallas, Philadelphia, Washington and the expansion New Orleans Saints, which had been replaced by the New York Giants for the 1968 season. Its most recent Super Bowl champions are the New York Giants.
Previously, although the St. Louis Rams were geographically farther east than Dallas before moving back to Los Angeles, the Cowboys remained in the NFC East despite being the only team located in the Central Time Zone and the Rams stayed in the NFC West because of long-standing rivalries: the Cowboys with all three other teams in the East, and the Rams with the San Francisco 49ers in the West.
The NFC East teams have combined to be the most successful division in the NFL since the 1970 NFL merger with 20 NFC Championship wins and 12 Super Bowl victories, the highest marks of any division in the NFL. Each of the current NFC East's four teams has won at least three NFL titles during their existence; however, only Philadelphia has yet to win a championship in the Super Bowl era. The division features a number of prominent rivalries such as the Cowboys–Redskins rivalry and Eagles–Giants rivalry. Because the division's teams are in some of the United States' largest media markets (New York No. 1, Philadelphia, No. 4, Dallas-Fort Worth No. 5, and Washington No. 8), the NFC East receives a high amount of coverage from national sports media outlets. In the early 1990s the division claimed four consecutive Super Bowl champions, all 4 against the Buffalo Bills, with the Cowboys winning twice in Super Bowls XXVII and XXVIII, along with the Giants and Redskins winning one apiece in Super Bowls XXV and XXVI respectively. Those same three teams won seven out of ten Super Bowls, from 1986-87 to 1995-96 (49ers won the other three).
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