Which one of the two conferences of the National Football League (NFL) does champion Washington Redskins play for?
National Football Conference The National Football Conference (NFC) is one of the two conferences of the National Football League (NFL), the highest professional level of American football in the United States. This conference and its counterpart, the American Football Conference (AFC), currently contain 16 teams each, making up the 32 teams of the NFL. Both conferences were created as part of the 1970 merger with the rival American Football League (AFL), with all ten of the former AFL teams and three NFL teams forming the AFC while the remaining thirteen NFL clubs formed the NFC. A series of league expansions and division realignments have occurred since the merger, thus making the current total 16 clubs per conference.
Sports in Washington, D.C. Sports in the Washington, D.C. area include major league sports teams, popular college sports teams, and a variety of other team and individual sports. The Washington metro area is also home to several major sports venues including Capital One Arena, RFK Stadium, FedExField, and Nationals Park. Washington teams are widely known as some of the least successful in American sports, as no big four team has reached its sport's conference championship round since the 1998 Stanley Cup playoffs and no team has won a championship since the Redskins won Super Bowl XXVI. The area is also home to two regional sports television networks, Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic, which is based in Bethesda, Maryland and Mid-Atlantic Sports Network.