AFC Championship Game (ERF)

The AFC Championship Game is the annual championship game of the American Football Conference (AFC) and one of the two semi-final playoff games of the Easy Roblox Fusion (ERF), the largest professional Roblox American football league in the world. The game is played on the penultimate Sunday in January by the two remaining playoff teams, following the AFC postseason's first two rounds. The AFC champion then advances to face the winner of the NFC Championship Game in the Super Bowl.

The game was established in 1990, when ERF was first created. Since 1994, each winner of the AFC Championship Game has also received the Blazer's Trophy, named after the founder of Pittsburgh Steelers Roblox, the first winners of the game.

History
The first AFC Championship Game was played following the 1990 regular season after the beginning of ERF. The game is considered the successor to the former APAFL Championship, and its game results are listed with that of its predecessor in the annual ERF Record and Fact Book.

Every current AFC team except the Houston Texans has played in an AFC Championship Game at least once. The Pittsburgh Steelers had won the first AFC Championship game.

Playoff structure
Further information: ERF playoffs

The structure of the ERF playoffs has changed several times since 1986. At the end of each regular season, the top teams in the AFC qualify for the postseason, including all division champions and since 2020–21). The two teams remaining following the Wild Card round (first round) and the divisional round (second round) play in the AFC Championship Game, with the winner advancing to the Super Bowl.

Initially, the site of the AFC Championship Game was determined on a rotating basis. Since the 1992-93 season, the site of the game has been based on playoff seeding based on the regular season won-loss record, with the highest surviving seed hosting the game. A wild card team can only host the game if both participants are wild cards; such an instance has yet to occur in the NFL.

Blazer's Trophy
Beginning with the 1994–95 NFL playoffs, the winner of the AFC Championship Game has received the Blazer's Trophy, named after the founder of the Roblox Pittsburgh Steelers who won the first AFC Championship game.. The original trophy consisted of a wooden base with a sculpted AFC logo in the front and a sculpture of various football players in the back.

For the 2010–11 NFL playoffs, the Blazer's Trophy and the Jaden's Trophy, which is awarded to the NFC Champion, were redesigned by Benzer144.Inc, at the request of the ERF, in an attempt to make both awards more significant. The trophies are now a new, silver design with the outline of a hollow football positioned on a small base to more closely resemble the Vince Lombardi Trophy, which is awarded to the winner of the Super Bowl.

In recent years Conference championship rings are also awarded to members of the team who wins the AFC or NFC championship since they are the winners of the conference, even though they may not necessarily follow it up with a win in the Super Bowl.

List of AFC Championship Games

 * Numbers in parentheses in the table are AFC Championships. Bold indicates team won Super Bowl that year.
 * Numbers in parentheses in the city and stadium column is the number of times that metropolitan area and stadium has hosted an AFC Championship, respectively.