San Francisco have reached the NFC Championship Game…or missed the postseason completely since 2003. 2011: Lost NFC Championship Game (to New York Giants) 2012: Won NFC Championship Game ...

PURDY: “Obviously last year, NFC Championship Game ... Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press ...

Detroit beat the previously unbeaten Vikings in Week 7 when Jake Bates kicked a 44-yard FG with 15 seconds left.

There's never quite been a division like this season's NFC North and there has never been a wild-card team like whoever loses ...

Detroit plays slumping San Francisco on the road next Monday night, a rematch of the NFC championship game in ... surpassing the 2011 team that scored 474 points during a 10-6 season with ...

There's never quite been a division like this season's NFC North and there has never ... with three of the previous nine winning the championship: New England in 2016 and San Francisco in 1984 ...

There's never quite been a division like this season's NFC North and there has never ... with three of the previous nine winning the championship: New England in 2016 and San Francisco in 1984 ...

The Lions earned a first-round bye before beating the Dallas Cowboys in the divisional round and losing to Washington in the NFC championship ... 474 points set by the 2011 Lions.